I enjoyed reading Truman Capote's writings
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This assisted in my delve into Truman Capote and his writing. Excellent writer.
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I love the writing style. I also enjoy reading about the simpler life of the time that the stories are set.
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Truman Capote is the champion of the human heart in these tales of childhood memories that echo the spirit of love and celebration that we all wish for and find in these pages. Keep this volume on your bookshelf to  warm the hearts of yourself and your loved ones throughout the year, and  especially during those times that we rejoice in the love we have for one  another.
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I found this book to be a very entertaining collection of short stories and poems.
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Lovely collection of 3 short stories from Capote's childhood. Sweet but not sentimental - I can see the seeds of "To Kill a Mockingbird"by Harper Lee, Truman's childhood friend and neighbor.
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This book was plesure to read simply because of Joyce Johnson's fine writing which fills in the spaces between letters. The writing is clear,  poignant and nicely focused. There really wasn't a great depth to her  relationship with Kerouac but that might be said of most of Kerouac's  relationships. What is interesting here is the contrast in two lifestyles  and how Joyce's perspective changed as a result of her relationship with  Kerouac and the New York beat scene. It's interesting to see the quality of  her writing evolve in her letters to Jack. This book takes one back into a  space and time where it is easy to see how both writers were living beyond  the margins-- before it became a cliche.
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This publication is a great introduction to Truman Capote and an easy read. Breakfast at Tiffany's is of course a classic, with a great cast of eccentric characters. The three short stories are interesting but the stand out is definitely  A Christmas Memory which is poignant, nostalgic, and heartfelt. It made me thankful for the great Christmases I've had in the past.
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I enjoyed the current to pervious day writing style of the author.
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"Other Voices, Other Rooms"
  by Truman Capote

Book Review by Jay Gilbertson

This is maybe the eighth, could be the ninth time I've read this amazing little novel and I know for certain I'll read it again one day. Billed as Capote's first, and in my opinion his best work, Other Voices, Other Rooms is truly an amazing piece of literature and still haunts me today.

 The author took a classic coming-of-age theme and carefully, subtly and with fascinatingly flawed characters--ripped it to smithereens! The story centers around two powerful topics that Capote struggled with his entire life: the search for a father-figure and the struggle with sexual orientation. What carries this tale is Capote's brilliant prose and impeccable descriptions of place. He is one of the more rare authors that compel the reader to constantly re-read certain passages not because they're confusing but due to the incredible picture the author presents of thirteen-year-old, Joel Knox, on the brink of manhood.

Give this a try:
"...He lay there on a bed of cold pebbles, the cool water washing, rippling over him; he wished he were a leaf, like the current-carried leaves riding past: leaf-boy, he would float lightly away, float and fade into a river, an ocean, the world's great flood."

With the death of Joel's mother early on in the story, he is sent off to live with his estranged father in a dilapidated old hotel that, like its occupants, is further sinking into disrepair. From the psychotic step-mother, Miss Amy, to her eccentric cousin, Randolph, to the crusty-cook, Zoo, there isn't a stereotype left to imagine. Throw in Idabel and Florabel, twins as different as they are alike, and you've got a brew of misfits that will surround you with color and sparkle contrasted with loneliness and despair at every turn. One jarring element that any modern reader will find uncomfortable to read is Capote's use of the `N' word. Though common back when this work was first published, it seems appropriate within the story and adds yet another layer to this complex cast.

 Another of the many fascinating characters is not a person, but an old resort called Cloud Hotel. It too is a falling apart place with a history that will burn into your imagination and leave you wanting to know more. Though I've read everything Capote ever wrote, it's this novel I return to because like some poetry, each reading I find some new gem to marvel and wonder about.

Like this clever title-weave-in:
"...But Little Sunshine stayed on: it was his rightful home, he said, for if he went away, as he had once upon a time, other voices, other rooms, voices lost and clouded, strummed his dreams..."

 Oh and there's also a midget and a woman with a huge wart on her chin and a one-armed barber and a cat named Toby. And of course, there's a woman in the window and you won't believe who that turns out to be--or perhaps you will.

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Going back and re-reading the works of Truman Capote is like visiting an old and trusted and extremely wise friend. Mr Capote as much as any writer I have read, knew the difference between good writing and very good writing and between very good writing and brilliant writing. And for most of his career, his writing was brilliant.

He could write as descriptively and beautifully as F. Scott Fitzgerald or as descriptively and brutally realistic as Joseph Conrad, but as much as any writer he knew the correct balance when it came to his writing, his subjects, and his characters.

"Music For Chameleons" includes a wonderful collection of short stories and a brilliant and gripping short, non-fiction, novel called "Handcarved Coffins."

The stories are quite a diversified collection of Americana and the locations include New York City, Los Angeles, New Orleans, the Midwest, and Alabama...and a little bit of Italy, Russia, and Switzland. Mr Capote feels as much at home writing about Hollywood stars, as he does about cleaning ladies working in Manhattan, or as he does about writing about murderers and a member of the Manson clan.

The one thing all the stories and the novel have in common is a vivid, undeniable "honesty."
"Honesty," the most important quality that only the greatest of writers have ever achieved.
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I read In Cold Blood many years ago but somehow I had overlooked Truman Capote's brilliant and poignant short stories.  This is an exceptional collection and I am delighted that is available on Kindle.  I strongly recommend it to younger readers who want to better understand the times of their parents and grandparents.
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I read this in an anthology decades ago which, as I recall, the editor included after Truman Capote had tried several times to get her attention with other stories, and succeeded with this one because it was such a winner. Reading it twenty-five years later, I found it as entertaining as the first time. Short, first-person, unreliably-narrated and funny account of "his side of the story".
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I enjoyed the writing and it really is interesting how each of the persons deal and react to the events.
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Such fun to peek into the lives, loves, and lies of the fashionable, filthy rich of that era. And the way the story is told puts you right in the inner circle with the Swans and Truman. Capote couldn't have done it any better.
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Capote is a great writer and Holly Golightly is one of the great characters of fiction.
The other stories are worth reading as well
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Wonderfully insightful.  Truman's own words give you an entry  to this great writer's philosophy.  It's a fast read.
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I enjoy good writing and turn of the century morals.