Taking Pictures
by Anne EnrightSign in to Goodreads to see your friends' reviews of this book.
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Read in June, 2008
I bought this book of short stories at the airport hoping it would be a good plane read. She has a bit of a potty mouth & rather then it working in seamlessly I am finiding it jarring. Don't know if I'll get through it but I will give it a few more stories.
The short story "Taking pictures" was the best of the bunch. She's a good writer so I may look into some of her other work.
The short story "Taking pictures" was the best of the bunch. She's a good writer so I may look into some of her other work.
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The short stories in this book are so rich with emotion and imagery, I find I need a break between each of them so it is taking a while for me to read, which I don't mind at all. Enright is a literary astronaut - she uses the very limits of language to describe emotional states, mainly melancholic and painful ones, that almost no-one else could articulate.
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Read in May, 2008
I loved this, I particularly loved the first two stories. I've never read Enright's work before but this is exactly the kind of book I enjoy reading. If I wrote a book of short stories, I'd want them to be like these.
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Read in January, 2008
Managed to read only one story from this book and tried to read two others however they were too mean and bitter and full of disdainful attitude to every character to keep going.
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Read in June, 2008
Why aren't books or stories ABOUT anything anymore? If this is post postmodernism, you can keep it.
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beautiful examination of relationships, all in this very droll tone.Such great dialogue, so concise
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