truman capote

disclaimer ... i am not a professional book reviewer ... i just love to read books ... therefore, ergo, my opinions on this and that book are solely based on my values, my interests and so on and so forth ...

now on with the bashing ....

let's get one thing straight ... i like truman capote.

in reality, i even saw the movie about his life (not really expecting to like it - http://imdb.com/title/tt0379725/)- well, his life related to the book "in cold blood" - and i liked it ... loved it even ... resulting to my buying of the book right after watching the film (book was out of stock so i had to go back a few days later) ...

in cold blood was really good ... it was gripping ... it kept my attention .. it moved me ...

so when i borrowed chireh's breakfast at tiffany's, my expectations were soaring ... only to be disappointed ... the story - the way it came to me - was just too simple and i was left hanging at the end ... not in a "makes you wonder" kind of way ... more of - "ha? anu daw? yun na? yun na yun????"... ganyan ... it's about holly golightly - isang sosyalera who gets her way around men (parang from an escort service nga ang pagkaka-describe kay holly e) ... holly became close with paul - a struggling writer ... in the end, paul helped holly escape when her name got tangled in something illegal ... i think yan na yung buong book ...

so there ... i didn't like it ... maybe there's more to it than that ... i'll probably give the movie version a chance ...

teka, i also read capote's short story - "a diamond guitar" ... and i liked it better than breakfast at tiffany's ... i understand the sadness that the guy who owned the diamond guitar (forgot his name) brought to the other prisoners ... they saw in him what they don't have anymore - a thirst for life outside their cells ....