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3.67 AVERAGE
3.67 AVERAGE
Worth reading, but I don't know what I think. I liked her short stories better. The ending was good. I will reread when I am older and wiser.
Edited September 2024: It's nine months later and I'm thinking about this book. That's the thing about O'Connor: her stories grab hold of you and won't let you go. What is spiritual blindness? What is faith? These are (some of) the questions she is asking in this book, and she is asking them well. I need to reread it.
Edited September 2024: It's nine months later and I'm thinking about this book. That's the thing about O'Connor: her stories grab hold of you and won't let you go. What is spiritual blindness? What is faith? These are (some of) the questions she is asking in this book, and she is asking them well. I need to reread it.
3.5/5
This book was incredibly off-putting and strange. Yet, it definitely will be a book that I will continue to sit on and contemplate for a long time.
For a school book, it was easy to get through and interesting enough to be enjoyable!
This book was incredibly off-putting and strange. Yet, it definitely will be a book that I will continue to sit on and contemplate for a long time.
For a school book, it was easy to get through and interesting enough to be enjoyable!
I know there is a lot going for symbolism in this story, but I am not even sure what I just read….. I would not have finished this book except that I need to be able to discuss it for a book club.
I think I need a “It’s not you, it’s me” shelf for books like this. You know, books you read and you know at the back of your mind that they are brilliant but you also can’t find it in yourself to like them?
This is a novel about horrible people being rather horrible to each other, and it’s written in an exquisite and evocative prose – but I still couldn’t wait to finish it so I could move on to the next novel in my pile. In a book about Buddhism I read recently, Brad Warner compares people who argue about religion to nerds who argue about their favorite sci-fi franchise and almost beat the crap out of each other because they disagree about some details, instead of simply bonding over a shared interest and enthusiasm – I thought about that a lot as I read “Wise Blood”…
This is a novel about Hazel Motes’ crisis of faith, and how he ends up sliding down into a downward spiral of broken dreams, disappointments and the impossibility to reconcile what he perceives as moral values and what he actually wants.
I'm sure that if I felt so inclined, I could dig at it a bit more and find interesting metaphorical elements to it (the whole theme of blindness for instance), but I can't say I am bothered. It might be as simple as the subject being unappealing to me, or perhaps the way the subject is explored, but that book left me scratching my head and I was glad to be done with it.
This is a novel about horrible people being rather horrible to each other, and it’s written in an exquisite and evocative prose – but I still couldn’t wait to finish it so I could move on to the next novel in my pile. In a book about Buddhism I read recently, Brad Warner compares people who argue about religion to nerds who argue about their favorite sci-fi franchise and almost beat the crap out of each other because they disagree about some details, instead of simply bonding over a shared interest and enthusiasm – I thought about that a lot as I read “Wise Blood”…
This is a novel about Hazel Motes’ crisis of faith, and how he ends up sliding down into a downward spiral of broken dreams, disappointments and the impossibility to reconcile what he perceives as moral values and what he actually wants.
I'm sure that if I felt so inclined, I could dig at it a bit more and find interesting metaphorical elements to it (the whole theme of blindness for instance), but I can't say I am bothered. It might be as simple as the subject being unappealing to me, or perhaps the way the subject is explored, but that book left me scratching my head and I was glad to be done with it.
dark
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Hey what the heck Flannery O’Connor. I read this because a man told me the most made-up sounding details about its plot, and while I think he might have a gift for exaggeration, he wasn’t wrong. TVBIA I felt I kind of understood, but this was almost baffling. I’m not really sure of the significance of half of it. At any rate, it was rather enjoyable.
I despise Southern Gothic, this short novel is brilliant but I still hate it. I only read this because my uncle gave it to me as a present.
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes