I bought this for the 1001 book box! Enjoy

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Borrowed this book from a fellow bookcrosser. The book contained the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's and short stories: House of Flowers, A Diamond Guitar and A Christmas Memory (liked this one). Believe it or not I have never seen the movie, but am familiar with the stills of Audrey Hepburn from this movie. Really enjoyed this story and the crazy antics of Holly Golightly. She is definitely one passionate lady, but you have to love her childlike intrigue and they way men put her on a pedestal. A quick entertaining classic read. Now I'll have to watch the movie!

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Enjoyed the novella and short stories very much. I had read "In Cold Blood" years ago; but that was my only experience with Truman Capote's writing.

It was very interesting how some parts of Breakfast at Tiffany's (the movie) were so true to the writing, and yet, there were so many things that were incredibly different (and Holly is a blonde!) I guess Hollywood felt it had to sanitize many things.

I particularly enjoyed the short story "House of Flowers."

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Always wanted to read the inspiration for the movie. Thanks for sending this along.

Enjoyed the novella and the short stories. Had seen the movie a number of times. Did worry about what would happen to Cat and was taken aback at some of the language in BAT. I guess that I was so used to Holly's movie portrayal. This was my first read of anything by Capote.

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Thanks so much for sending this from the General Literature VBB! I love the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's, so I'm interested to read the story that it's based on.

My Review: I love the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's and have seen it several times, so I was curious to read the story that it was based on. There were definitely similarities to the story and characters, but the story was much harder. I guess Hollywood had to make it more palatable. In the book, I see Holly Golightly as a manic depressive who probably needs some medication. In the movie, she is more like a quirky eccentric, the manic depression is down played. I got the feeling that Truman Capote knew someone like Holly Golightly character and based it on her. She seemed too personal to him, like he knew her intimately. Most of his stories, he seems to stand back far away from the people in his stories, but this one seemed really personal. I've read In Cold Blood years ago. It's a very chilling book based on real murder of a family in the midwest.

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Thanks for sending this one along as part of the Lit VBB. This is a book I have wanted to read for a long time. Hope to get to it soon.

This is No. 467 on the 1001 books you must read before you die list.

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Edit 1/19/19: I read another copy of this. Here are my thoughts:

I've seen the movie version of this several times and always consider Audrey Hepburn and Holly Golightly as one and the same.



Well the book, or novella, paints a somewhat darker portrait of Holly. The story is told from the point of view of a writer living downstairs from Holly in a New York brownstone. Holly calls him Fred because he reminds her of her older brother. On the outside, Holly seems to be a sophisticated young woman who turned down a Hollywood role and who throws parties in her apartment with many male admirers. But inside, she is really lonely and scared and has bouts of the "mean reds" where she takes solace by visiting Tiffany's. Every man she meets seems to want her, and she uses this to benefit from their attention but she is really just a poor girl from Texas who is really alone. "Fred" seems to take pity on her and wants to steer her in the right direction but things don't always work out that way.

I'm glad I finally read this. I enjoyed Capote's writing style which flows easily and contains a lot of dialog.

I found that I have another copy of this book so am wild releasing this copy.

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