The Liars' Club is steeped in a strong blend of Texas scenery [oil rigs and nutria rats], sounds ["He's not worth the bullet it'd take to kill him"] and it's stifling stickiness as much as it is run through with the horrors and trauma Karr experienced as a child. What is worth the price of admiss...
I loved this book and I don't usually go for memoirs, especially ones claiming dysfunctional childhoods on the jacket, but this was a rare exception. Very well written, excellently paced, witty and sarcastic and ironic made this enjoyable to read and made uncomfortable subjects bearable, even comica...
This is an incredibly sad book and I found myself having to stop after small chunks just because it was too depressing to continue. But it's also extremely well-written and I see why Mary Karr is seen as the master of memoir. Her ability to remember details draws you into the story, almost like you ...
Have I ever mentioned that I hate miserable childhood memoirs? Well. I do. O customer-who-recommended this to me, never again will I read a book on your word. New York Times, you may be on the outs as well. Because the only thing worse than a miserable childhood memoir is a substance abuse memoir (s...
Really intense. Some of her style of grammar mechanics bugged me, but mostly her poetry comes through. I didn't get caught up in it until about a third of the way in (which is not to say i didnt enjoy it) but then, whoa, I could hardly stand to leave her alone with her life and painfully correct des...
I don't know anything about Mary Karr's other writing, but this was a great memoir. Great characters and settings - sad, tragic, rambunctious and humorous.
This is a wonderful memoir of family love in the face of great unhappiness -- though Mary Karr's mother's misery, her turbulent behavior and heavy drinking, overshadowed the family, they managed to stick together and get through. The life of the Texas refinery town took its toll too, though Karr's f...
Hrrrm...I didn't like this one as much as I thought I would. The one aspect I really enjoyed was the way she describes certain scents throughout her childhood and that's why I gave it three stars instead of just two. In my own writing I have trouble with scents, so to see it so well done gave me ma...
Perhaps if I had read this when it first came out or perhaps if I had read it before such classic memoirs as The Glass Castle, Falling Leaves, Angela's Ashes, and Blackbird then maybe, maybe I would have liked Liar's Club better. But there were many parts of the book where I found myself asking, "So...
I was hoping it would be as good as Jeanette Walls' The Glass Castle, but it wasn't. Karr did a terrific job of remembering her childhood, and she has more details about her life in the first chapter than I could remember from my entire childhood. I'm impressed that she recalled (and researched) so ...
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