The Violent Bear It Asay
Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780451019370 (0451019377)
Publish date: January 1st 1960
Publisher: Signet Book
Edition language: English
Can we chat for a minute, fam? Good. I'll try and make it quick.This is my favorite type of book. If stories like this were still popular, this would be the only kind of book I'd write. Strong opener and then loads upon loads of character development and realistic dialogue followed by a Holy-Shit! e...
Can you ever escape the destiny laid out for you? This book would have us to believe that no, you can't. And even as you violently fight against it, you will still do that which is laid out for you. I'm not sure how I feel about the book. On one hand, I really enjoyed how O'Connor showed the struggl...
I can see how Flannery O’Connor wouldn’t be everybody’s cup of tea. Her stories can be dark and bleak, and she has a way of writing about the most terrible people. Yet I love her. I absolutely love her. I don’t care how flawed or unlikeable her characters can be, there’s something about her prose an...
This little book very nearly blew me away. I say very nearly, because there's one incident right near the end that both upset my own sensibilities - but more than that, I've been mulling it over, and I can't for the life of me figure out what it adds. Except for that, though, this is an astounding l...
It took me a long time to get into this. Though I found the initial pages interesting, soon it became tough slogging. But once Tarwater and Rayber meet things really pickup. There is a sort of majesty to this part of the book and the subsequent part. It is really impressive and admirable how O'Conno...
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