Rating: Summary: ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!!! Review: I read this book for my college intro lit class (I am currently an ENGLISH-LIT major) and fell in love with it!! Ms. McCullers brings forward issues that we normally take for granted such as finding out WHO we are as a person and WHAT situations affect the search for ourselves. In her novel she draws us into the world of a young girl, a black family, a deaf-mute man, and the [Great]Depression-stricken world of the South. I couldn't put it down from the time that I picked it up!! The only word to describe it is WONDERFUL!!!
Rating: Summary: Loneliness creates peculiar alliances Review: Excellent! Brilliant juxtaposition of characters. The constant dualism between the internal and external worlds of characters such as Mick Kelly make for an insightful look into human nature and the struggle with loneliness.
Rating: Summary: My personal favorite, and I'm in high school! Review: I am a high school senior and despite all the negative feedback from other young people, I loved this book. This book had been sitting on my mom's bookcase for as long as I can remember, and the title had always caught my eye. Finally, one day last week I picked it up and started reading. From the first page, I was hooked. I read it in only 4 days. It's too bad that other teenagers can't appreciate this incredibly moving novel. It is without question one of my favorite novels ever.
Rating: Summary: A special kind of horror: real Review: This book is moving, devestating really, to those who get it, and just murdered trees to the billions who never will. If you're BORED by it don't worry . . . there's plenty of "entertainers" eager to keep you from learning anything about yourselves or the world by refilling your trough with mindless excitement.
Rating: Summary: A Truly Gifted Writer Review: I will forever treasure this book. I only wish I had discovered Carson McCullers 20 years ago while an eager English Lit student ... what an inspiration it would have been to know back then that a fellow 23-year old had written such a wise, compelling novel. The cast of characters in "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" will stay with me forever.
Rating: Summary: HELP Review: This book is so boring there is no action no feeling it is about boring everyday people in a boring everyday town doing the same thing Ya da ya daya da! I fall asleep everytime i read it! oh bye the way are there cliff notes for this book?
Rating: Summary: Loved it Review: This is a beautiful, sad, quiet, slow, and thought provoking novel. If you think you can take it, you will be rewarded.
Rating: Summary: BORING! Review: I understand where all the people who LOVE the book are coming from because YES u are older and are able to understand it more where im in high school reading it for summer reading...which i think is stupid in the first place....but i mean ill be so bored and have nothing to do and ill bring out the book and start reading. i'll get half a page read and put it down cause it bores me even more! i, personally dont like it, but i respect the fact that some of u do and i wish i could enjoy the book but i cant...its NOT for me! i guess ill just watch the movie so i can understand it a little atleast.
Rating: Summary: Better then ur Average book. Review: The Heart is a lonely hunter is a book that is not for everybody.its not for summer reading (hint hint) but has a great deal of good work in it. I rate this book a 4 for its deep thought and good plot.
Rating: Summary: Pretty damn good for being 23!! Review: CArson McCullers was 23 when she worte this piece of literature, and she did pretty well for being so young. I think that this work of art requires one to be in touch with the nature of others and also who appreciates the life experiences of others in relation to this outside world.
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