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A review by brea_by_the_beach
The Great Santini by Pat Conroy
5.0
I've read a few of Conroy's books; and I remain grateful to a friend who recommended him a few years ago. Pat Conroy has a true grace about his writing. I may alienate some people by saying this, but I have always felt a good writer speaks to his readers with a heartfelt conversation that transcends basic variables like geography and age. When I read Conroy, I feel as comfortable and well wrapped in his stories as I do with other writers like, Stephen King. He great, grand critics might argue that there is no literature here; but when I want a good story.. i know I won't go wrong with Conroy.
"The Great Santini," is a tad dated by 2016, in that you have seen many of these characters before, but you might want to ask yourself if anyone had humanized them the same way as Conroy did when he wrote this story decades ago.
Reading this with the eyes of a 21st century woman, I wish more was there for some characters that got lost in the shuffle.. particularly those characters that paid with their innocence and their lives...
The story remains what it is though.. coming of age as a boy of the South, raised by the Pater Noster who cannot be replaced, but whom you must dethrone to become a man.
"The Great Santini," is a tad dated by 2016, in that you have seen many of these characters before, but you might want to ask yourself if anyone had humanized them the same way as Conroy did when he wrote this story decades ago.
Reading this with the eyes of a 21st century woman, I wish more was there for some characters that got lost in the shuffle.. particularly those characters that paid with their innocence and their lives...
The story remains what it is though.. coming of age as a boy of the South, raised by the Pater Noster who cannot be replaced, but whom you must dethrone to become a man.