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Title: The Ice Storm: A Novel by Rick Moody ISBN: 0-316-70600-0 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 10 April, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.68 (38 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A CONTEMPORARY CLASSIC
Comment: There is no other book that explains what's like growing up in the 70s better than THE ICE STORM. A very beautiful and delicate family drama. Yes, it's very cold but that's the point the author wants to emphasize. Most folks complain that the characters are not fully developed - its not a flaw at all. Its simply because the characters dont know themselves - they're confused and lost in a chilly world. Very distant also. We're not supposed to feel any warmth or comfortable.Moody wants us to feel distant with the characters - dont forget the progantist is the oldest son Paul whos totally lost and frozen. We see his family through his eyes.Reading the book is like visiting my childhood again. My parents spent too much time partying and tyring to keep up with the sexual revolution. It does have a devastating price - my father died of alcoholism last Christmas and I don't talk to my mom and sister anymore. For a very long time, my family forgot how to huddle even in the most difficult time. And th book rings very true for me and many other young folks. Moody is also a genius with words and his writing is very beautiful.
Rating: 2
Summary: Poor Moody
Comment: First of all, don't buy the Ice Storm. By the fourth chapter, it has degenerated into excessive name dropping of TV shows and a sort of setting-as-metaphor style that Moody and his friend Jeffery Eugenides seem to like so much, none of which is successful in the least. Which is so unfortunate because the characters in this book just cry out to be made whole and experienced as real human beings, not just cardboard cutouts advertising the excesses of the 70s (which is perhaps why the movie was so successful, allowing the actors to bring the depth to the characters that the novel just can't). What Moody seems to have forgotten in his obbession with "long, torrid sentences" and "musicality" in prose is that literature is not music. It's literature. A sentence that goes on and on and on and on, never letting you come up for air is a sentence that should be edited.
As a writer, I have always thought the most important aspect of a book was whether it moved you or not, whether you felt chills reading it. But somehow literature has become about being "stylish" or "clever" or "ironic", subsituting a professor's cool wit for a writer's hard but big heart. I'd rather read Richard Russo than labor through the Ice Storm because Russo knows how to write a story. All Moody can do is create a mood and he's not even very good at that, because he thinks he's making music when its really only the sound of him feverishly typing. But Moody is a not a bad writer. Just read "The Ring Of The Brightest Angels Around Heaven". I did, and I was incredibly moved. His depiction of the varying moods experienced during sexual intercourse was powerful and groundbreaking. While so many others writers want to write pornography, Moody writes with a complexity that the act deserves. But like so many other readers (and writers for that matter) I'm beginning to be puzzled over the Rick Moody phenomeneon. Maybe Moody just doesn't have the capability to write great characters and chooses to hide this fact like so much guitar wank hides the lack of a decent melody. If so, I suggest he write poetry. But if he does, I sincerely hope he gives us readers the novel we know he's capable of
Rating: 5
Summary: Depiction of a cultural wasteland and it's tragedy
Comment: Rick Moody's classic book on the 70s is rich with detail of the era. Set in New Canaan, CT, an affluent WASP town which some consider a suburb of NY, two dysfunctional families pay the ultimate price for their jaded life-styles. It's the children who suffer as their parents struggle with issues too myriad and complicated to detail in a short review. Suffice it to say that a neighborhood key party provides the chaotic climax to an evening on which an ice storm rages outside, while a metaphorical storm of ice rages within.
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Title: Purple America: A Novel by Rick Moody ISBN: 0316559776 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 04 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Garden State: A Novel by Rick Moody ISBN: 0316557633 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 02 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Demonology: Stories by Rick Moody ISBN: 0316592102 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 10 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title:The Ice Storm ASIN: B000056BSG Publisher: Twentieth Century Fox Pub. Date: 17 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $9.98 |
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Title: The Black Veil by Rick Moody ISBN: 0316739014 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 12 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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