Breakfast at Tiffany's

[miriam_e]

I read Breakfast at Tiffany's today.
What an amazing story!

The movie, though beautiful is, of course, a pale shadow of Truman Capote's tantalising bittersweet story.

I love to read such brilliant works, but I hate the way they make me realise what a hopeless artist I am. [sigh]

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Re: nod!

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the movie is what caught me too. I knew he (Capote) wrote In Cold Blood because a friend read it and recommended it to me years ago, but murders leave me with a terrible feeling of dread so I had no great desire to read it. When I found out that he also wrote Breakfast at Tiffany's my interest was aroused. I'd always liked the movie (probably just adoration of Audrey Hepburn [sigh]) so I thought I'd get the book. I didn't expect it to be much like the movie -- a movie runs for a couple of hours and a book, if read at speaking speed, runs for many times that long.

The main character reminds me of an incredibly attractive, charismatic girl I loved years ago, whose bed I was lucky enough to share for a time, so perhaps my reaction was intensified by my personal experiences, but I think almost anybody will be moved by Breakfast at Tiffany's.