You need to sign in or sign up before continuing.
Take a photo of a barcode or cover
readers_block 's review for:
The Great Santini
by Pat Conroy
3.5/5
Uuuugh. I love Pat Conroy, but this one just wasn't really for me. It's hard to explain: I can't tell if I gave it more credit than I deserved because its Conroy, or because I had such high expectations that they fell flat because its Conroy.
Prince of Tides, South of Broad, etc are all up there for some of the best reads ever, for me. I just couldn't really find the joy in this one. Even the writing lacked a bit for me. It almost felt like an excuse to just bat around witty insults and macho slang? Like, the sheer amount of gay/genitalia jokes started to parody itself. Sportsfans, pissants -- nobody is actually addressed normally in this book. By the end the dialogue felt so rote in terms of the volleying of insults that it was hard to not roll my eyes.
I'm kind of bummed because this is my last fiction Conroy and I had waited a long time to read it. Oh well.
Uuuugh. I love Pat Conroy, but this one just wasn't really for me. It's hard to explain: I can't tell if I gave it more credit than I deserved because its Conroy, or because I had such high expectations that they fell flat because its Conroy.
Prince of Tides, South of Broad, etc are all up there for some of the best reads ever, for me. I just couldn't really find the joy in this one. Even the writing lacked a bit for me. It almost felt like an excuse to just bat around witty insults and macho slang? Like, the sheer amount of gay/genitalia jokes started to parody itself. Sportsfans, pissants -- nobody is actually addressed normally in this book. By the end the dialogue felt so rote in terms of the volleying of insults that it was hard to not roll my eyes.
I'm kind of bummed because this is my last fiction Conroy and I had waited a long time to read it. Oh well.