melerihaf 's review for:

Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories by Flannery O'Connor

1.0

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I wish there was a rating that said, "I totally respect the quality of this book, but I personally did not care for it." That's what I would give this book. O'Connor is genius at getting inside people's heads and showing that the way they think has a power over their lives and actions. (Or, as Proverbs says, "As a man thinketh, so is he.") Anyway, that was brilliant. However, the stories are all ridiculously depressing, somewhat over the top, and oddly devoid of any emotion. She is more unbiased in her reporting than any news writer I have ever known. I seriously wonder what was up in O'Connor's life that led her to write such stories.