Truman Capote: Underrated Master
Eonopolis
11-04-2006, 03:09
Indeed he is!
People without names
11-04-2006, 03:13
saw the movie, and thought it sucked
Bodies Without Organs
11-04-2006, 03:13
Indeed he is!
Underrated by whom?
Lunatic Goofballs
11-04-2006, 03:14
He's also a frightening little man. :p
Eonopolis
11-04-2006, 03:37
saw the movie, and thought it sucked
Well I admit, it's geared for the typical dumb American move going audience.
And I'm not really talking about the movie, I'm talking about his works
BLARGistania
11-04-2006, 03:55
Can someone be kind and fill me in on what exactly this guy did? I'm too lazy to do my own research and the name has not come up in any of my discussions so far.
Bodies Without Organs
11-04-2006, 04:16
Can someone be kind and fill me in on what exactly this guy did? I'm too lazy to do my own research and the name has not come up in any of my discussions so far.
Wrote the novel Breakfast At Tiffany's and the journalistic book In Cold Blood, along with various other works and relatively minor pieces. Socialite and schmooze hound. Imagine a lisping homosexual Norman Mailer, and you've pretty much got him nailed.
BLARGistania
11-04-2006, 04:18
Wrote the novel Breakfast At Tiffany's and the journalistic book In Cold Blood, along with various other works and relatively minor pieces. Socialite and schmooze hound. Imagine a lisping homosexual Norman Mailer, and you've pretty much got him nailed.
i see
Eonopolis
11-04-2006, 04:42
Wrote the novel Breakfast At Tiffany's and the journalistic book In Cold Blood, along with various other works and relatively minor pieces. Socialite and schmooze hound. Imagine a lisping homosexual Norman Mailer, and you've pretty much got him nailed.
His work is so great, and who cares if he was, "mexican, or methodist, or even eskimo" (quote out of movie Capote).
Bodies Without Organs
11-04-2006, 05:04
His work is so great, and who cares if he was, "mexican, or methodist, or even eskimo" (quote out of movie Capote).
Meh. I ain't seen no movie. I just read the books. The man asked for a thumbnail sketch, and that's what I gave him.
As far as his greatness goes, I only really rated Other Voices, Other Rooms and Breakfast At Tiffany's. Although Mailer fed off his ideas (witness his journalistic novels), I believe Mailer did it better... to say nothing of the fire-in-the-belly-ire-and-excess that is An American Dream.