On 2004-12-23 Brian Markowski, Cedar Rapids, IA wrote: Susan Orlean, notable to most as a writer for The New Yorker, became the literary ´It´ girl in 2003 with the help of the movie ´Adaptation´ (the movie based on her book The Orchid Thief). In an attempt to capitalize on that book, ´Bullfighter...´ was released.
The book takes some of Orlean´s favorite and most popular articles and complies them into what appears to be a theme about remmarkable people. Orlean speaks candidly in the begining of her book about always wanting to be a writer and ironicly this introduction proves to be some of the best writing in the book. The rest of the books tends to be pretty much hit and miss. A fasinating story about a taxi driver who is in reality an African king somehow ends up being not so fasinating. Another story about a 10 year old is down right boring. My favorite ended up being about a store owner in New York that only sells buttons.
This is not to say that Orlean is a bad writer, she´s not: however she writes with a sometimes akward detachment that made it hard for me to enjoy these ´personal´ articles. . And summed up by saying Nothing to get excited about. Currently The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup: My Encounters with Extraordinary People has an overall rating of 6 over 10.
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Random House Trade Paperbacks claimed The bestselling author of The Orchid Thief is back with this delightfully entertaining collection of her best and brightest profiles. Acclaimed New Yorker writer Susan Orlean brings her wry sensibility, exuberant voice, and peculiar curiosities to a fascinating range of subjects—from the well known (Bill Blass) to the unknown (a typical ten-year-old boy) to the formerly known (the 1960s girl group the Shaggs).Passionate people. Famous people. Short people. And one championship show dog named Biff, who from a certain angle looks a lot like Bill Clinton. Orlean transports us into the lives of eccentric and extraordinary characters—like Cristina Sánchez, the eponymous bullfighter, the first female matador of Spain—and writes with such insight and candor that readers will feel as if they’ve met each and every one of them. The result is a luminous and joyful tour of the human condition as seen through the eyes of the writer heralded by the Chicago Tribune as a “journalist dynamo.”
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