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Title: Self-Help by Lorrie Moore ISBN: 0-446-67192-4 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.23 (22 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Depressing stuff, but so is most emotionally evocative fare
Comment: I love short stories, mainly because I don't have the patience to get through the likes of War and Peace, or even Crime and Punishment, for that matter. I also seem to enjoy contemporary authors over authors of other time periods for the most part. The first short story that I remember capturing my full attention was "Desiree's Baby" by Kate Chopin. Love those surprise endings. That's why I used to like the tv show "The Practice" because of those twists at the end.
Back to Self-Help: this book is a collection of vignettes, including the first, and my favorite "How to be an Other Woman." Lorrie Moore is such a genius because she includes a lot of wordplay in her writing, i.e. "How to be (an)other woman"- that makes reading her a delight. But I was also impressed by the imagery in her writing and the symbolism in the protagonists' often bizarre behavior, i.e. wearing their coats indoors symbolizes the characters' fears of intimacy. In a way, the writing is poetic and reminds me of some of Margaret Atwood's poetry, especially her poem with the line "Love is a many splendoured thing."
I can't say I enjoyed the rest of the stories as much as the first one, but then again, we can't be 100% effective all the time. A funny story about this book, when I was a senior in college my roommate Nicole wanted something to read for leisure that I recommended, as I was an English major, and I gave her this off my shelf. She came back saying this was the most depressing thing she had ever read. So it's not for the faint of heart!
Rating: 5
Summary: Lorrie Moore has helped me love women more
Comment: How's that for a self-help book. Moore's prose is brilliant; her style, unrefined and beautiful. I like this collection because it has the edge too much editing can kill. Read this book.
Rating: 2
Summary: Lorrie Moore, Self Help
Comment: I first read Lorie Moores work in the absolutely putrid "Best American Short Stories 1999", compiled by none other than the awful Amy Tan. Keeping true to form, Ms. Tan ruined what has come to be one of the best annual collections of short stories, by including a bevy of boring, listless, absurd stories, one of which was written by Moore.
The story, of which I have forgotten the name, was about womanhood, angst, affairs and other such staples of feminine writing. (In an effort to not be seen as a vehement chauvinist, I would like to point out my interest and general enjoyment in the stories of Alice Munroe, Jhumpa Lhiri and other exceptionally talented woman writers. End of disclaimer.) She went out of her way to be delightfully "kooky" by, (Oh my God this is SO original), writing a full page of HA!'s. As in "HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!" for a whole page. Yes, to some this may come accross as a truly brilliant idea, a veritable stroke of genius, intelligence, originality and so on, so on. In my case, it came off as the work of a writer suffering from either A) ADD B) Too much cafeine and/or sugar C) Cocaine Abuse. Dont get me wrong, I have nothing against writers that are funny or original in the way they write, or what they write about, but this is just too over the top. Maybe in Ms. Moores crazy little mind, this all makes sense, and is just one big laugh, but for Gods Sake, why didnt I get it?
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Title: Birds of America by Lorrie Moore ISBN: 0312241224 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Like Life: Stories by Lorrie Moore ISBN: 0375719164 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 03 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Anagrams by Lorrie Moore ISBN: 0446672726 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? by Lorrie Moore ISBN: 0446671916 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: I Know Some Things: Stories About Childhood by Contemporary Writers by Lorrie Moore ISBN: 0571198023 Publisher: Faber & Faber Pub. Date: 01 June, 1993 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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