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3.67 AVERAGE
3.67 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I don't know...I guess it's a common experience to finish her work with a "WTF did I just read", but I had a real hard time connecting to this. I just found everyone so deeply unpleasant and there was no softness anywhere. Even in Blood Meridian there were people here and there who I could relate to and understand. I feel like O'Connor hated the people she was writing about to a certain extent, and fair enough, they were very hateable. It's one to think on some more, definitely a classic and well written, but one I'll have to think on.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism
Moderate: Fatphobia
challenging
funny
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I was in the mood for this sort of subject matter recently, and I wanted to see how accurate the movie was (very!)
Every character in this is so controlled by their convictions, not just faith in a religious context but convictions of morals and the workings of their lives so that everyone talks past each-other in repetitive phrases with the assurance that they’re the only person who knows what they’re talking about. The further Hazel Motes runs away from religious guilt the further he falls into it’s structures of thought and action. So funny and strange- preachers and beggars and items of religious fetish and show prophets con-men and mortification of the flesh. I love a story where every character is the weirdest person.
There’s definitely plenty lonely about the main four characters, the estrangement from parental affection, the lack of romantic or physical intimacy, the crisis of faith whether through commodification or exploitation or motivation.
There’s definitely plenty lonely about the main four characters, the estrangement from parental affection, the lack of romantic or physical intimacy, the crisis of faith whether through commodification or exploitation or motivation.
challenging
dark
medium-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
dark
funny
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark, ugly, disquieting, revolting, absurd - O'Connor portrays a world in which no one would want to live but in which, alas, we all may live: it's there, starkly revealed in the shadows, but only the blind (two of the main characters are blind) can see it - an existentialist gem
We are born into a world where we are deemed sinners for existing. Do we spend our entire lives looking for redemption? Can we be redeemed? And, if we have not sinned, are we forever clean?
Wise Blood tackles the paradox of modern Christian faith and modernism.
-->What is the opposite of Church? Church, it seems. One can not escape it.
Huge similarities between O'Connor's writing and Cormac McCarthy's - I wonder if he took inspiration from her work.
Wise Blood tackles the paradox of modern Christian faith and modernism.
-->What is the opposite of Church? Church, it seems. One can not escape it.
Huge similarities between O'Connor's writing and Cormac McCarthy's - I wonder if he took inspiration from her work.
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
funny
reflective
medium-paced
dark
funny
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I truly can’t decide how to feel about this book - I feel like it did make me feel things and spurned some interesting convos in my life but I didnt really enjoy reading the book itself? I’m sorry Flannery - maybe I’ll try your short stories