The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Oprah's Book Club) by Carson McCullers Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Oprah's Book Club)
Book Review: never received it, or response to e mail- or a call from amazon.
Summary: 1 Stars
never received it, or response to e mail- or a call from amazon. bad all the way around.Book Review: A Book for All Ages
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a great story for people of all ages. As a teenager, I felt at one with the antagonist of the story. As an adult I see her transition more clearly than before. It is also a reminder of the power of the emotions of adolescence and those first real learning experiences, something I hope I will never forget.Book Review: Story that will stay with you...
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of my favorites!
This is the first McCullers' book that I have read and it has become one of my favourites. It felt like a timeless story that could have been written only yesterday instead of in the 1930's. It also could have been written by a much older, experienced person instead of a young girl of 23 years. It is a gentle, sad story that might have been typical of small town life. It was very refreshing to feel submerged in the slow pace and emotion of life in a long gone era. The story touched me in an unexpected way, and I know I will long remember the characters and their individual stories.
The story is about a deaf mute named John Singer, who after his best friend(also a deaf mute) Antonapoulos is sent to an asylum becomes lonely, four other characters also become lonely due to some result of isolation; Dr. Copeland is seperated by his family and his race because of his high education and viewpoint; Jake Blount is angry because the radical social viewpoints he has, won't be understood by anyone else in the town; Mick Kelly cannot communicate with her family because of they do not share her interests and ambitions; Biff Brannon becomes alone when his wife dies and ponders and struggles to resolve inner conflicts in life. The book isn't too long and the pace isn't too slow. The dialogue, pace, and tone is astonishing. It is a great book that I highly reccomend Another title that I suggest reading is One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Book Review: THIS BOOK IS NOT ABOUT HUNTING!
Summary: 4 Stars
Consider yourself warned. This book is not about hunting, despite the title. A couple of people do get shot, but they weren't really hunted. The book instead is about a collection of misfits in the South with such names as "Spareribs," "Bubber," and even a deaf mute strangely named "Singer." These people do their best to live their lives, and they seem to find some comfort in setting up one guy as a sort of god-like figure (there is an uber-god who seem to be the only content person in the novel). What happens when your god dies? I guess you keep on going. The lives of these misfits sheds light on personal and inter-personal conflicts. If the soul is the seat of passion and turmoil, of beauty and ugliness, of honor and cowardice, then the South is the soul of America, as far as I can tell from this book. Anyway, like I said in the beginning, this book is not about hunting, but maybe you'll find it worthwhile.Book Review: Incredibly average
Summary: 3 Stars
I have no idea why this book is considered a classic. It is quite pedestrian and doesn't have a real "voice". It's a decent portrait of some of societies "left behind" people, but nothing rings of literary immortality. Not memorable.