A review by _bb
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor

3.0

What a strange world. During the intro to the second addition O'Conner bills it as a comic novel, and there are a couple perfectly executed scenes that prompt a laugh or smirk. What it really comes across as, though, is an eerie and mostly alienating existential novel. Characters who are alienated from themselves, the world, each other and the reader. And all of them rather unlikeable. Deeply unlikeable and difficult to relate to, even as humans. The writing is on point, of course, and I want to rate this higher- but there is just too much disturbing aftertaste oozing out of the story (in classic O'Conner style). Maybe I'll feel better once I have some distance between it and myself.