Did you see the Coen brothers movie? Then you read the book. True, the book is a bit funnier than the book, it's pretty faithful. The book is pretty good, pretty solid, told from the viewpoint of Mattie, as an adult, as she reminisces over the quest she took to avenge her father's death. I tho...
Just read it. It's amazing. I also highly recommend the audio version, read by, of all people, Donna Tartt. This has been one of her favorite books since childhood, and she knows the text intimately. Her accent is dead on.
You can see my entire review at http://the-bookaholic.blogspot.comI highly recommend reading if you haven't. This will go down on my list of favorite classics. I just love the discovery of a book that you feel like will remain with you for a lifetime. I believe "True Grit" will for me. I'm ashamed a...
Portis does such an amazing job of delivering first person narration in Mattie Ross' unique voice that it is easy to forget that this is a work of fiction and not an actual first hand account.
Several things drew me to this book. First, the Coen brothers decided to do an adaptation of this book and second, some good friends wrote some fantastic reviews of it.Because they did such a good job of telling what the book was about, I won't go into much detail, but I will talk a little bit abou...
I was curious to read this because it is the basis of the films. Even though the back cover has all sorts of praise remarks from reviews and claims sales of about 1.5 million books, I was not really impressed. It is not a bad book; it just is not that great, and I am betting the film makers probably...
I love Mattie Ross so much. She might be one of my favourite narrators of all time. Her no nonsense bravery and occasional bouts of righteous indignation are equal parts hilarious and heartwarming, as is the relationship she builds with Rooster and Laboeuf. She's just a kid but she's stronger, witti...
This book has a solid, well-paced plot, strong characters, good old Old Testament morality and a potent dose of humor, but what really made "True Grit" for me was the language. I loved the dialogue, the deadpan delivery, the idiom and simple sentence structure. There's nothing fancy going on here; d...
I'm almost done, and I'm a little baffled: it it supposed to be a comic novel? Or are his other books comic? I like it well enough, but it seems mighty realistic about war and hunting down killers and so forth. Fun facts: an (uncommon) family name shows up on the third page. And later on, the J...
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