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26 人中、23人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
Too clever by half
2009/3/8
形式:ペーパーバック
At first I was charmed by "Lenore's" penchant for writing down every morsel of food that passed her lips, the flea market knick-knacks and the post-modern paperbacks... but by the time I got to the Paul Smith sock collection and the vintage Kitchen Aid coffee grinder it was just too much, and I began to feel like I was trapped next to the annoyingly hip and brilliant dinner guest who can't stop pointing out just how hip and brilliant she is.
"Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris" may be a satire on modern love, but I think Shapton also meant to write a real romance -- and in that it falls short. "Hal" and "Lenore" are excruciatingly precise shoppers who somehow can't get past the petty-squabbles stage of a thirtysomething relationship. There are moments ("I love his legs... I hate his drinking") that suggest an actual person lurking beneath the things, but these moments, though well observed, don't add up to a full portrait. The stuff -- the vintage hats and Smythson of Bond Street planners, the cake stands and martini sets -- just overwhelms the people, and the people disappear under its weight. Clearly, Shapton meant to do the opposite -- have the stuff subtly illuminate the characters' inner lives -- but the props have drowned out the players.
It doesn't help to have photographs of actors playing the lovers, either; that only made "Lenore" and "Hal" seem even less probable.
It's a neat idea, though. Tried with characters who have lost something more resonant than a teacup or a trip to the Bosporus, it could really be something.
(As a side note: Shapton is a very talented illustrator and her series, "A Month of..." for the New York Times, is worth checking out.)
"Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris" may be a satire on modern love, but I think Shapton also meant to write a real romance -- and in that it falls short. "Hal" and "Lenore" are excruciatingly precise shoppers who somehow can't get past the petty-squabbles stage of a thirtysomething relationship. There are moments ("I love his legs... I hate his drinking") that suggest an actual person lurking beneath the things, but these moments, though well observed, don't add up to a full portrait. The stuff -- the vintage hats and Smythson of Bond Street planners, the cake stands and martini sets -- just overwhelms the people, and the people disappear under its weight. Clearly, Shapton meant to do the opposite -- have the stuff subtly illuminate the characters' inner lives -- but the props have drowned out the players.
It doesn't help to have photographs of actors playing the lovers, either; that only made "Lenore" and "Hal" seem even less probable.
It's a neat idea, though. Tried with characters who have lost something more resonant than a teacup or a trip to the Bosporus, it could really be something.
(As a side note: Shapton is a very talented illustrator and her series, "A Month of..." for the New York Times, is worth checking out.)
13 人中、12人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
Sweet, nostalgic and real
2009/3/4
形式:ペーパーバック
Much has been made of how original and unusual the format of this book is--an auction catalog, selling off the ephemera of a failed relationship--and that's true, but it's also deliciously fun to read and a great love story. The particulars, such as 10 postcards sent by Hal to Lenore during an early business trip, one to "my gray-eyed princess" one reading "Pissing rain here, work boring, missing you and thinking of your face all the time/ all the time /all the time..." feel universal, and will be sort of heartbreaking to anyone familiar with early-stage besotment. About halfway through, I found myself starting to feel sad and worried that they're going to break up (you know it's coming) and wishing that they could just work it out. And not to give anything away, but the breakup is just as caddish and dirty and over-articulated as breakups are in real life. Leanne Shapton has proven herself to be brilliant with the telling, hilarious details of relationships (her last book entitled "Was she pretty?" for the question she asks about a boyfriend's ex-girlfriend) and the items in the catalog (the silver-plated cup the couple kept their toothbrushes in, Valentines Day menus, a collection of hotel key cards) are often as poignant as the words. I loved this book!
9 人中、8人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
A little twee & too clever for it's own good
2009/6/11
形式:ペーパーバック|Amazonが確認した購入
When I read about this book, I was struck by what an incredible idea it was. It is a good piece of conceptual art, but a little cute with too may name brands, which ultimately make this feel like yuppie porn. Rather than making the characters specific, all of the high end name dropping makes it kind of smarmy and in the end hollow where it should be touching and universal.
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