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Bezig met laden... Primary Colors (1996)door Joe Klein
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This is a good, solid book, but I didn't get a whole lot more out of it than I did from the film, which I saw first. That's no fault of the book, of course, but a really good novel is impossible to turn into a good movie because there's too much going on in the pages (a really good short story can be almost as good on film, though). With Primary Colours there's nothing happening in the prose or the characters beyond the superficial, and while the dialogue is fantastic, the best of it made it to the film. ( ) Another book on my TBR-shelf for years. I got this when I was in my teens and could not go beyond the first page then. I doubt I would have understood it if I have tried. Reading it feels like watching TV because you can visualise the scenes, and the dialogue feels real. The characters are interesting but flawed. The character of Libby adds half-a-star; she is so funny (aside from her tragic ending). In this battle, you have to make choices and decide where you stand. And the strongest or luckiest (like Jack Stanton) survive.
"Primary Colors" is an odd book. But maybe the oddest thing about it is how good it is. In spite of its sins it is far and away the best thing I have read about the 1992 campaign; it breaks all the rules and lives to tell about it. As long as it's in the muck and sticking reasonably close to the facts (and lies) of 1992, Primary Colors is great fun. The descriptions of the campaign trail, from the union-hall meetings to the rubber-chicken dinners, are superb, as is the portrayal of Stanton's relationship with his wife, Susan. It's only when Primary Colors departs from its tasty combo of imaginative journalism and insider politics that it becomes ordinary. There is a gift of slang and lingo in this novel—"Handi Wipes" for disposable appointees; "muffins" for young and impressionable volunteers; "scorps" for reporters—that in its automatic callousness bespeaks the real thing. As usual, though, the apparently hard-nosed carapace conceals an almost puerile sentimentality... "Anonymous" takes the view that the "scorps" or scorpions of the Fourth Estate are forever on a blood-in-the-water alert. This opinion, very common in the political class, ministers to its mirror-image among the press corps, which is always ready, with a shy self-deprecating grin, to confess that if it has a fault it is an excess of the "adversarial" gene. Such poppycock, which is in reality no more than an exercise in mutual self-regard, has its usefulness for both parties. The politicians can claim to be held to an impossible standard (which they never are) and the pundits can hold seminars of introspection about whether they have gone too far (which they never do). PrijzenOnderscheidingen
A brilliant and penetrating look behind the scenes of modern American politics, Primary Colors is a funny, wise, and dramatic story with characters and events that resemble some familiar, real-life figures. When a former congressional aide becomes part of the staff of the governor of a small Southern state, he watches in horror, admiration, and amazement, as the governor mixes calculation and sincerity in his not-so-above-board campaign for the presidency. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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