tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367682155970735252.post4582160092659404659..comments2024-01-30T20:59:06.397-08:00Comments on Man Book Club: Roy Prepares a Capital MealUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367682155970735252.post-79760649859568051502009-12-14T14:53:52.381-08:002009-12-14T14:53:52.381-08:00First guy who sends me a mailing address can borro...First guy who sends me a mailing address can borrow my copy of Bad Land for your February meeting.<br /><br />Enjoy your holiday and the ski weekend that follows.<br /><br />Best-<br />JeffJeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16659858335748179668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367682155970735252.post-2326405496783914112009-12-08T09:27:48.871-08:002009-12-08T09:27:48.871-08:00Good luck with your joint meeting tonight! I am c...Good luck with your joint meeting tonight! I am curious to read how it goes and how much book talk there actually is. Who will dominate: male or female readers!?<br /><br />I'll check back for your January book pick too!Jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16659858335748179668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367682155970735252.post-18680469759527376022009-11-23T09:34:45.128-08:002009-11-23T09:34:45.128-08:00All good points, Jeff. Yes, we did refer to the m...All good points, Jeff. Yes, we did refer to the movie with Philip Seymour Hoffman (George, I think, felt he was poorly cast as Capote)as well as Infamous (Stan's choice among the various adaptations). And while we brought up the unusually close relationship Capote developed with Perry (and Dick), no one seemed to make much of it other than to acknowledge that Capote was flamboyant during an era when it was hardly acceptable, much less understood.<br /><br />Your former teaching colleague sounds much like the local teacher/writer quoted early in ICB. Good thing neither of them wasted his time trying to write an account as definitive as ICB.<br /><br />I think we're all in for a shock when we read Breakfast at Tiffany's alongside a group of women readers. We'll see.andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12017834763548542404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367682155970735252.post-9202313685488911152009-11-23T05:59:17.806-08:002009-11-23T05:59:17.806-08:00Andrew and the Men of MBC-
Good write up of your ...Andrew and the Men of MBC-<br /><br />Good write up of your meal and the In Cold Blood discussion. Had I been sitting at the table, I may have voted "10" for this ground-breaking non-fiction novel. I truly can think of nowhere that it doesn't deliver, and for me it gets a point to a half point for simply being the first of its kind. In less skillful hands than Capote's, this new genre of true crime might have fallen flat.<br /><br />Remember too that forty plus years later, we are so used, so inured, so jaded, to knowing *everything* about every high profile person, famous or infamous. But 1965 was a simpler time: pre Watergate, pre 1968 Democratic convention and race riots, pre Viet Nam hadn't coming to the forefront of the nightly news. Readers then weren't used to the "cold blooded" under the microscope scrutiny of both victims and perps that's nauseatingly commonplace today, for better or worse. Capote was the FIRST to conduct such an investigation then top it off with wonderfully compelling readable prose; it's easy to see how and why ICB is considered a classic,, and why I get such a continued good response when I teach it to seniors. <br /><br />Did any of your discussion touch on the crush or deeper feelings Capote had for Perry? In the 21st century, we may not be surprised at such an attraction between writer and subject but in 1965, between two men even, watch out!<br /><br />Had any of you seen Philip Seymour Hoffman's "Capote?" Nice parallels and deviations from ICB and the differences between book and film are always worth discussing as the Great Apes prove each of the (nearly) three times a Cormac McCarthy novel is adapted to film. We'll see where "The Road" takes us! Have any of you seen either the black and white or the made for tv version of ICB?<br /><br />Sidenote: years ago I taught next door to a colleague who'd grown up and lived in Holcomb at the time of the Clutter murders and once he shared his huge folder of clippings from the days and weeks immediately after the murders. He told me he had hoped to do a book on it one day, but Capote beat him too it!<br /><br />Enjoy your second helping of TC in December. Holly Golightly is no Perry or Dick! Once again proving Capote's a master and not limited to a single genre.<br /><br />Read on, and will 2010 be the year that MBC and Great Apes meet?Jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16659858335748179668noreply@blogger.com