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| Contributor | Craverguy |
| Last Edited | Craverguy Sep 27, 2009 04:54pm |
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| Category | Review |
| Author | Christopher Lehmann-Haupt |
| Media | Newspaper - New York Times |
| News Date | Tuesday, November 26, 1974 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Predictably, Myron is to its predecessor, Myra Breckinridge, what your usual movie sequel is to its precursor. A movie called The Fly comes to mind, for some reason--an understated yet powerful sci-fi thriller about a man who through a mix-up with a transformation machine exchanges not his gender but his head with a common housefly, the film's only flaw being Vincent Price as a secondary character. But in The Return of the Fly, Mr. Price took over everything (I still carry around with me a troubling if somewhat vague memory of Mr. Price's staring in horror at a friend who has just been turned into a giant bunny-rabbit)--and the result was dreadful, or, as Myra Breckinridge might put it, de trop. And so it goes with Gore Vidal's two novels. The first seemed original, surprising, a classic of its kind (since it was the only one of its kind, it could hardly avoid being such), and its only flaw was its somewhat too clever ending, in which Myra is hit by a car and transformed back to masculine Myron by the resulting surgery. But in Myron, Mr. Vidal's cleverness takes over everything, and if the result is not so bad as to be dreadful, it is certainly a shade too much. |
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