MYRA BRECKINRIDGE (Gore Vidal) - November 13/12

I'm still not sure if there was something wrong with the Kindle edition I downloaded or if the book was supposed to consist solely of huge, unbroken paragraphs. Vidal's style is actually pretty obnoxious and always distracting, and the author bogs the book down with almost endless instances of speechifying, for lack of a better word. More than half the book is devoted to Myra's perspective on a wide variety of topics, most relating to feminism and the like. There are some pretty astonishingly vivid sequences - eg the rape of Rusty! - but generally speaking this isn't exactly what I'd classify as a brisk read (even though it's quite short). ** out of ****