The Liars’ Club: A Memoir
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When it was published in 1995, Mary Karr’s The Liars’ Club took the world by storm and raised the art of the memoir to an entirely new level, as well as bringing about a dramatic revival of the form. Karr’s comic childhood in an east Texas oil town brings us characters as darkly hilarious as any of J. D. Salinger’s—a hard-drinking daddy, a sister who can talk down the sheriff at twelve, and an oft-married mother whose accumulated secrets threaten to ruin them all. Now with a new introduction that discusses her memoir’s impact on her family tree, this unsentimental and very much moving account of an apocalyptic childhood is as “amusing, lively, and un-place-downable” (USA Today) today as it ever was.Amazon.com Review
In this amusing, razor-edged memoir, Mary Karr, a prize-winning poet and critic, looks back at her upbringing in a swampy East Texas refinery town with a volatile, defiantly loving family tree. She recalls her painter mother, seven times married, whose bandit spirit could tip into psychosis; a fist-swinging father who spun tales with his cronies–dubbed the Liars’ Club; and a neighborhood rape when she was eight. An inheritance was squandered, endless bottles emptied, and guns leveled at the deserving and undeserving. With a raw authenticity stripped of self-pity and a poet’s eye for the lyrical detail, Karr shows us a “terrific family tree of liars and drunks … redeemed by a slow finding of truth.”
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Mary Karr shhots from the hip, making a superficial narrative that expounds a kind of confession. People like this– that is, average readers. Set out in the world she claims, in Book World(2008) Bill Matthews beat brain cancer by having a heart atack– (lie) She also misspeaks regarding Keats(Book World 2008)-(liar) As I said, she shoots from the hip– in no way is an literary, does not check her sources, writes anything she wants, because, perhaps, she has branded herself a liar already. Her work is, frankly, weak, poems and prose. Persons of you who “like” it should reach privileged in regrd to your reading. Or not. Stay on the low unadorned of writing like Mary Karr’s.From what Kevin saio
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
If you are a fan of child rape then this is the book for you. Otherwise you may want to try something a small lighter. Briged Jones Diary is excellent for a few laughs. Anything by Terry Pratchett is amusing.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Now before you all click the “No” button not more than this review, read the whole thing first.
For starters, I was extremely place off by the theme matter in The Liars Club. I did not find anything amusing about this book at all, mostly I just felt like it was a written “Real World.” And also, this book dragged out way too long. Maybe Ms. Karr is trying to tell us of her recovery from child molestation. I really liked the tale until that part. (And this event happened on page 67) And the rest of the book only had everything get worse and worse. And also, I could not judge how nothing could take place at all. Now, don’t get me incorrect. I was originally attracted to this book by the take in and the title. But after reading this book I establish myself place off by how much hype this book has earned (espically from Time magazine). Now, if you have read this far in this review, you can either hit the “No” button at the bottom of this review or you could reflect I’m just one of persons readers of the MTV generation who thought he could rely on action to keep him reading. Well, if you reflect either of these things, either click that button and sign off, or you could click on my icon and read some additional of my reviews and see that some books just aren’t for everyone.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Karr has a gift for the sort of “colorful” Southern writing Yankees can’t seem to get enough of. But this book is a warmed-over rehash of the truly fantastic Southern writers. Go read the excellent stuff as a replacement for, folks. Or maybe your “book club” could read this one so it won’t tax your brain so much.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
This book was all but appealing to read. I had such a hard time finishing this book, which was for class. I establish myself skipping over paragraphs many times and not missing a thing. I had to make myself end this book. This is one of the most dull, poorly written, and un-appealing books I have ever read.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5