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Other Voices, Other Rooms
by Truman Capote
“I just adore Truman's lyrical first novel. The visuals linger in the mind, a subtle blend of horror imagery and decaying beauty.”
Comments (3)
May 8, 3:00 AM
Editress, a 53-year-old woman in Chicago
“You're welcome. I've never read Mailer -- a real deficiency in my repertoire. What would you recommend for starters? By the way, Other Voices is very Southern Gothic so if you find that off putting, you might not enjoy it. BTW again, yours is the first intelligent response I got on this site. Have you noticed it's really spammy on here? Or maybe it's just me. :)”
May 7, 2:56 PM
DavidRP, a 46-year-old man in Providence
“Excellent tip. Thank you. I read Capote's "In Cold Blood" and Norman Mailer's "The Executioner's Song" back-to-back and, with all due respect to Mr. Mailer, Capote's work is by far the better, and moved me deeply with horror and sympathy, a great book... at least in my opinion. I don't always "get" Mailer, by the way. No big quarrel - as if he would bother to have one with me - but I found his book on Lee Harvey Oswald troubling as well. I was moved by the sympathy shown to Oswald's wife and others who cared about him, but find fault with the conclusions of the book. Then again, I couldn't get through "Breakfast at Tiffany's" either, but I'll definitely check out "Other Voices, Other Rooms." Thanks again.”
May 8, 9:21 PM
DavidRP, a 46-year-old man in Providence
“Southern Gothic - I'll Google it later, but wasn't Capote from New Orleans? A strange atmospheric town, six feet under the level of yonder sea and not so yonder at that, voodoo and hurricanes and jazz, the birthplace of an American genius named Louis Armstrong who took a president to task for not taking two little Black girls by the hand and walking them into a school seething with segregationist insanity...and Chicago of the big shoulders and a cold cold wind - and yet you have a wonderful beach by bright blue waters and your state in general tends to produce very nice presidents who seem to pop out of nowhere and do something historical. I'm a bit lazy of late, more movies and popcorn than turning the page and my best recommendations are Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Capote" and Daniel Day-Lewis in "Lincoln," but I'll think about the Mailer request and get back to you. "The Executioner's Song" is not bad, it's just not Capote. Let me think about it. As for the spamming, I get the same and also saddening notes from possibly poor young women in the New York area who mistakenly believe that just because I've read a few books and can scribble a little bit that I might be rich enough to be their "daddy." Sad, really, and momentarily tempting, but as a recovering alcoholic who follows Jesus without beating anyone over the head with his multiple-times-translated words, his message to Mary Magdalene and her loyalty to him above all others prevents me from indulging the instincts of a dog. My God how I run on sometimes....”