I just finished "Other Voices, Other Rooms" It was quite good, especially for a first novel. Like all great Southern writers, Capote is able to capture the darkness of the South (his writing could easily be compared to that of Faulker and Flannery O'Connor.) His characters are haunting but at times confusing, especially Randolf who was suppose to be some sort of transvestite (it took me a while to get that one). It's rather morbid to read and I don't know if the ending is happy or not, but the not knowing makes it all the more interesting.
George Saunders (read his article in the New Yorker about "wash boarding") is hilarious, however, I'm about to die from complete boredom from the direct characterization used in "The Hours" by Michael Cunningham. I like the mystery in indirect characterization much better.
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