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Rating and reviewing this book puts me in a quandary. I didn't enjoy it ... except when I did, despite myself. It's funny and awful, comic and absolutely bleak, a sermon on atheism that turns out to be a pretty intense Christian sermon after all (maybe? who knows?). I have to give Flannery O'Connor credit for being able to combine those disparate characteristics in one novel.
But oh, it's just so painful and ugly! I think that's the point, and this definitely isn't the only Southern Gothic novel ...more
But oh, it's just so painful and ugly! I think that's the point, and this definitely isn't the only Southern Gothic novel ...more
Feb 14, 2010
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Good gracious, just open up a freaking vein! this is dark and depressing. good. well writing. but man i was not in the mood when i read this.
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I guess I was hoping for something a bit more redemptive in the end. but it just sunk darker. I wasn't really sure what the author was trying to impress upon us, the reader. Don't put rocks in your shoes? I dunno. I really like O'Connor's short stories I've read. I'm not giving up on her. But I'll wait a while before picking her up again. ...more
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I guess I was hoping for something a bit more redemptive in the end. but it just sunk darker. I wasn't really sure what the author was trying to impress upon us, the reader. Don't put rocks in your shoes? I dunno. I really like O'Connor's short stories I've read. I'm not giving up on her. But I'll wait a while before picking her up again. ...more
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