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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Carson McCullers

Start date: March 22, 2015

Finish date: March 30, 2015

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Apr 24, 2017 Astrid Lim rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classic, literature, america, disability, popsugar-2017

Not to discredit the translator, but I think reading this book in English would be more enjoyable. The translation of this book is decent, but could not capture perfectly the atmosphere of the story. I know that the main theme of this book is about loneliness, and I could feel some of the silence and quietness- but not completely buy them.

I like the story though, the main character, Mr. Singer, who is deaf and mute, is a perfect representative of the world of silence - but ironically, he's the o ...more

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Sep 16, 2009 MacDuff rated it it was amazing

Loved this, although it is truly slow reading. I wasn't ready for all the personas McCullers adapts in the book, but I ended up really falling in love with many of the characters. It's incredible that she wrote it when she was only 23 - the mind is a massive hunter is more like it. ...more

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Jun 22, 2015 Mary rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: format-audio, summer-bingo-2015-2

Bingo - Published before 1970. This was a slog. Certainly didn't help that I could only listen in my car (the only CD player I have is there) ... so it took a while. I felt like Carson McCullers was a gap in my reading life and this book is an American classic. But wow, it's bleak at best and at worst downright depressing. Maybe it's just a bit too realistic for me with difficult themes of poverty, racism and violence without any real hope. I'm glad I read it (hence 3 stars, not 2), but I won't ...more

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