Review of Capote: A Biography (Paperback)

I ran across this book and hadn't thought about Capote in years and got it on impulse. It is just a wonderful bio and captures what Capote was and why he attracted such attention. It is hard to imagine what a youngster he was when he came on the scene and how he was so very loved. The book is full of lovely stories and famous people. The chapters on the "swans" was my favorite but his relationships, the accounts of his writing, his amazing ambition and ability to have devoted friends and ultimately his terrible end are written like a novel. Capote was generous, brilliant, kind, warm, seductive,vicious at times and utterly captivating. I now want to reread his books. But the accounts of his travels abroad, his long stays at wonderful quaint places and the "moveable feast" of his early life made me long to have been there. I loved this bio.



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Review of Naked (Paperback)

This book is classified as a memoir, and it's the funniest one I've read to date.Growing up Greek in North Carolina couldn't have been easy, but adding to the mix a crazy grandmother and a sibling with a penchant forusing towels as toilet paper makes it that much harder (and funnier, tous).

David was struck with enthusiastic OCD as a child, only to findways to "cure" his tics in college.His stories of life afterschooling include apple-picking and packing, working with jade (not tomention a crazy, hypocritical Christian), and refinishing woodwork with aJew-hating Lithuanian and a somewhat confused black guy.He hitchhikeswith all levels of human decapitation until a rowdy truck driver combsthicket by the roadside looking for him.

Not all of the fifteen storiesare side-splitting funny."I Like Guys" highlights accepting hishomosexual feelings, and an undercurrent of seriousness lines the story. "Ashes" tells of his mother's cancer, and a sense of tragedyseems to sober his usually razor-sharp satirical style.

The last (andtitle) story, "Naked", tells of his experience with a nudistcolony.It's written in more a journal form (the others are written in a'flashback' form) and by the end, you feel strange in your ownclothing.

I definitely plan on recommending this book to my friends.Idon't see how you could live your life without picking up a Sedaris book.



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