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In these tales of loss and pleasure, lovers and family, a woman learns to conduct an affair, a child of divorce dances with her mother, and a woman with a terminal illness contemplates her exit. Filled with the sharp humor, emotional acuity, and joyful language Moore has become famous for, these nine glittering tales marked the introduction of an extravagantly gifted writer.
After reading the many good reviews about nearly all of Lorrie Moore’s books on amazon, I went to the library and checked out Birds of America, Self-Help, Frog motel whatnot, and Anagrams. I read the first stories from Birds of American and Self-Help and was reminded that there are some truly terrible writers out there; Lorrie Moore is the worst I have read lately. She writes like some graduate student doing a theses on The Joy Luck Club while weeping and staring into the distance. But…if you happened to like the Joy Luck Club, and perhaps loved the movie Steel Magnolias – man, rush out and by everything you can find by this genius.
Rating: 1 / 5
I first read Lorie Moores work in the absolutely putrid “Best American Short Stories 1999″, compiled by none other than the awful Amy Tan. Keeping true to form, Ms. Tan ruined what has come to be one of the best annual collections of short stories, by including a bevy of boring, listless, absurd stories, one of which was written by Moore.
The story, of which I have forgotten the name, was about womanhood, angst, affairs and other such staples of feminine writing. (In an effort to not be seen as a vehement chauvinist, I would like to point out my interest and general enjoyment in the stories of Alice Munroe, Jhumpa Lhiri and other exceptionally talented woman writers. End of disclaimer.) She went out of her way to be delightfully “kooky” by, (Oh my God this is SO original), writing a full page of HA!’s. As in “HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!” for a whole page. Yes, to some this may come accross as a truly brilliant idea, a veritable stroke of genius, intelligence, originality and so on, so on. In my case, it came off as the work of a writer suffering from either A) ADD B) Too much cafeine and/or sugar C) Cocaine Abuse. Dont get me wrong, I have nothing against writers that are funny or original in the way they write, or what they write about, but this is just too over the top. Maybe in Ms. Moores crazy little mind, this all makes sense, and is just one big laugh, but for Gods Sake, why didnt I get it?
Rating: 2 / 5
I was told that this short-story collection was one of the best out there. And so, I didn’t hesitate to read Lorrie Moore’s Self-Help. While there are some cleverly written stories with a lot of irony and dark humor, the stories lack depth and consistency. The stories did not touch me or affect me in any way, which is what I look for in literary short fiction. Instead, I was either bored or disgusted with the banality of some of the stories. But, as I said earlier, there are some good ones. I enjoyed “How to be a Writer,” “How to Be an Other Woman,” “Amahl and the Night Visitors.” However, that is not to say that they are up to par with the stories written by champions like Joyce Carol Oates and Amy Hempel. Perhaps I am being too hard on the author. I will give another one of her collections a whirl in case Self-Help is a fluke.
Rating: 1 / 5
I used to go around buttonholing people, telling them what a great writer Lorrie Moore was…I still think her earlier story collections are terrific and would give them 5/5 stars. But this one is far from her best…beginning to sound like one endless story just chopped off in random lengths, like salami. And the one about the sick baby is disgusting and foul. If that happened to Ms. Moore in real life, I am sorry for her, but it is too intimate to write down for the public. If it is fiction, it goes too far. No mother of a seriously ill child would write cynical sentences about the other mothers in the hospital wearing sweatpants. So buy her earlier books, skip this one.
Rating: 2 / 5
I love this book, and I love Lorrie Moore. Her writing is amazing and (dare I say it?) “fresh”; and every page I read just makes me want to quote her. “Look at this,” I want to say to innocent people, “look at this, and don’t tell me you don’t think she’s brilliant!”
Rating: 5 / 5
Amahl and the night visitors lorrie moore…
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Self-Help Guide…
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Self-Help Guide…
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Self-Help Guide…
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