Anybody read Ann Tyler?
I’ve been reading a few of her books and cannot tell if she is tongue in cheek or serious with her approach to the characters. What is apparent is that she’s quite a good writer.
I liked “Breathing Lessons” which won awards, including the Pulitzer, but the main character has to be one of the most annoying, irritating literary creations of all time.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | May 10, 2025 10:54 AM
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Is this a lesbian thread?
by Anonymous | reply 1 | May 6, 2025 2:24 PM
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Breathing Lessons was a very entertaining book. I think there was a TV movie made of it as well
by Anonymous | reply 2 | May 6, 2025 2:28 PM
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Read The Accidental Tourist. It's great, better than Breathing Lessons. She's a very appealing writer.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | May 6, 2025 4:51 PM
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Anne.
I’ve read a ton of her stuff.
The Accidental Tourist is a masterpiece.
Dinner At The Homesick Restaurant and Searching For Caleb are even better.
Breathing Lessons is a riot (for Tyler). I remember laughing and laughing. There was a movie that as R2 — a Hallmark Hall Of Fame production, yet. Joanne Woodward and James Garner. Perfectly cast. A terrific story. So Tyler. I loved everything about it.
I also liked Ladder of Years (though it’s the last one I read).
by Anonymous | reply 4 | May 6, 2025 5:01 PM
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Oh! I liked A Patchwork Planet, too. That’s a good one.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | May 6, 2025 5:05 PM
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It’s terrific. The book is better. But this is a great companion piece.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 6 | May 6, 2025 5:06 PM
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I remember enjoying Saint Maybe quite a bit.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | May 6, 2025 5:08 PM
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[quote]Is this a lesbian thread?
No, it's a Datalounge thread.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | May 6, 2025 5:12 PM
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She's a fabulous writer. The neanderthals who make up the public do not deserve her.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | May 6, 2025 5:25 PM
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R4/R5 here. R7, Saint Maybe is a personal favorite (also made into a movie by Hallmark Hall of Fame).
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 10 | May 6, 2025 5:27 PM
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I'm from Baltimore. She is one of the few good things to come out of this hellhole.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | May 6, 2025 5:31 PM
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She rarely gives interviews but in her latest it was revealed she had left her longtime Baltimore house for an assisted living home. Made me sad.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | May 6, 2025 6:51 PM
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She's in a Quaker retirement community. Not, to my knowledge, an assisted living community.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | May 7, 2025 12:10 AM
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Accidental Tourist was wonderful. I think I read Breathing Lessons. That tells you something.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | May 7, 2025 1:33 AM
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talent runs in the family. I love her sister Bonnie's music.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | May 7, 2025 1:36 AM
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I read Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant and A Patchwork Planet aeons ago. They're well-written, obviously, but I remember coming away from both of them feeling depressed.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | May 7, 2025 1:36 AM
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She always creates the weirdest professions for her characters.
As a teen, I was jealous of these fuckers who could survive taking down christmas trees.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | May 7, 2025 1:46 AM
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I have every book of hers and I've read them multiple times, she's my favorite author.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | May 7, 2025 2:00 AM
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R18, are her very early books good too? I thought “Homesick Restaurant” was her first but I was wrong.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | May 7, 2025 7:16 PM
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Oddly, her books in Amazon only date 4 stars mostly, some even lower. Considering that even crap can get 4.5 stars, there must be people who don’t “get” her for some reason though it’s not that hard. Maybe it’s the quirkiness.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | May 10, 2025 10:54 AM
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