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Title: The Black Veil by Rick Moody ISBN: 0-316-73901-4 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 12 May, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Full of Himself: A Memoir
Comment: What can I say? Those who love Rick Moody's work will defend it by employing the logical fallacy that those who don't like it don't get it. Well, I have a PhD, an MFA, I've published several books, and guess what? I don't like it, and I DO get it. His work is a one-trick pony, and once you've seen the trick (especially by authors who are far smarter than Mr. Moody -- i.e., John Barth, David Foster Wallace), it's simply not very interesting.
Rating: 2
Summary: What a disappointment.
Comment: In the last pages of this memoir, Rick Moody expresses his worry about "leaving something out." Yeah, Rick, you left YOURSELF out of your own memoir. Though Rick's experiences of alcoholism are interesting and self-reflective, the weaved in literary criticism of Hawthorne's parable attenuate any emotional potential of the memoir. We can feel bad for Rick, but we better shut up quickly and think deeply about his examination of what the black veil means. Also, as one reviewer pointed out, Rick just seems wordy here. He actually writes sentences like, "i don't know how to describe this..." Well then don't!
Ahh.... . the days of The Ice Storm
However, after reading the first chapter of this book (even the first page), you will think you are in for a treat. So it is worth just reading the first chapter in a book store.
Rating: 4
Summary: remakes the memoir
Comment: The "digressions" part of the subtitle primarily refers to the fact that this is not only a memoir but also a sort of family genealogy, or an attempt at one. Moody finds that he may be the descendant of a Reverend Moody who was fictionalized as the title character of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Minister's Black Veil." Digging through obscure histories and travelling about New England in an attempt to find out more about the man behind Hawthorne's self-loathing minister, Moody creates a sense of very powerful parallels to his own struggles with severe depression and drugs. These sections alternate without Moody making explicit connections between the two stories, but the format keeps the pages turning and the reader intrigued.
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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: 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: 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: The Ice Storm: A Novel by Rick Moody ISBN: 0316706000 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 10 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory by Patricia Hampl ISBN: 0393320316 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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