Those of you who have read it: does it effect you in the same way?
No. I found it kind of clunky. I read it recently, actually. I liked it a *lot* but I'm not in love with it. It made me think of architecture - I'm a big fan of architecture. And it was a good era for architecture.
I like the way no one in the book "says" anything. It's always "exclaimed" or "remarked" or "cried" - all the things they tell you not to do in writing class. And yet - I kind of liked it. It gives this melodramatic appeal to everyone's actions - made them larger than life.
I was comparing it to the Brett Euston Ellis (because the Rules of Attraction is like the last fiction book I read - reading fuck all lately) whose style is so succinct and brief. No comparison, really, but I think the 'lifestyles of the young, rich and bored' idea is kind of similar. There's an essay in that somewhere...
My favourite book of all time: Lady Hackett's Household Guide. Indispensable.
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Date: 2006-03-08 02:02 pm (UTC)No. I found it kind of clunky. I read it recently, actually. I liked it a *lot* but I'm not in love with it. It made me think of architecture - I'm a big fan of architecture. And it was a good era for architecture.
I like the way no one in the book "says" anything. It's always "exclaimed" or "remarked" or "cried" - all the things they tell you not to do in writing class. And yet - I kind of liked it. It gives this melodramatic appeal to everyone's actions - made them larger than life.
I was comparing it to the Brett Euston Ellis (because the Rules of Attraction is like the last fiction book I read - reading fuck all lately) whose style is so succinct and brief. No comparison, really, but I think the 'lifestyles of the young, rich and bored' idea is kind of similar. There's an essay in that somewhere...
My favourite book of all time: Lady Hackett's Household Guide. Indispensable.