The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Rating:
Summary: A Great Book
Review: I read this book 7 years ago. I liked it so much that I often read it when my teachers gave boring lectures in the classroom. Now I can hardly recall the details of the story. But just as another reader has said, it takes us to the meaning of loneliness and love in ways that other books don't. I am a Chinese, with quite different background and culture,but I understand and appreciate the same emotion. Great book. Great author.

Rating:
Summary: Well Worth My time!!
Review: This book takes much more than 90 pages to get into. In fact, it didn't really draw me in until the end of part 2. But it was well worth the read. This book is for those who want to read about real feelings and emotions instead of predictable escape literature.

Rating:
Summary: Words can not explain.....
Review: how BORING this book is. For the life of me I can not understand how some readers "LOVED" this. Like the reader from Manhattan, I also couldn't keep going after a certain page. And God knows I've tried. I've tried a couple of times. And I just couldn't go on. It just never took me anywhere. Why, for the Love of God is this book considered to be a classic?????

Rating:
Summary: Oh! So BORING
Review: I don't understand how readers actually like this depressing, dark, dismal book. I just couldn't finish it. I got to page 90 and couldn't go back to it. The first book ever, that I couldn't finish. I didn't want to finish it!!!! It bored me to tears. I felt nothing for the characters. I felt nothing for the plot. It's a waste of money and reading time. I just feel for all those HS kids who are required to read it for English class. Avoid it if you can!!!! And try to reason with your English teacher....

Rating:
Summary: A book for those who want something real
Review: This novel deals with everyday situations, things that are not out of this world. The average reader reads for pleasure, but this novel is one that instead of pleasure inspires realism to the maximum extent. We can perceive the problems of adolescence in Mick Kelly, a young girl which is given responsibilities not her age, like taking care of her younger brothers. Also, she wants to fit in to a group and doesn't seem to accomplish that, because she is always dreaming and phantasizing about the things she would do, but obviously can't. Jake Blount wants to make people understand the importance of fighting for their rights in the society they are living, but people do not pay attention to him because they rather assimilate the situation and live with it. Dr. Copeland always had a communication problem with his family, for he wanted to make them understand and achieve what he called their "true purpose". But that true purpose was the purpose he chose for his children. This attitude led his children to back off him and blocked communication. John Singer was traumatized since the time he tried to talk and people would stare at him oddly. This made him feel different and started to have deaf-mute friends, which only for their disability, were totally different from him. Summing up, this novel deals with alienation in its various forms: disability, lack of communication, different outlooks on life, adolescence and the changes it comprises. Whoever wants to take a journey into man's deepest thoughts should read this book as soon as possible.

Rating:
Summary: Absolutely Fantastic!
Review: This was the first book that I read by McCullers, but certainly not the last. I loved the characters!

Rating:
Summary: This is a lame book
Review: I think that this is one of the worst books that I have ever read. The characters are very poorly developed, and one does not get to know or love them at all. Also, this novel has no concrete plot. Rather, it is the story of each character's life and experiences, some of which add nothing to the novel at all. I had to read this book for school, and I found it depressing, boring, and worthless. I believe that this novel is a major waste of money and time, and I would never recommend it to anyone.

Rating:
Summary: How can I say this?.....BORING
Review: I am an avid reader. I will more or less read anything and everything. This, however is the most boring book I have ever read. It's been 3 weeks and I am still on page 100. I just can't get into it. And sometimes feel like I should force myself to finish it. The characters are boring. They never grow or develop. What is the point here?? Why is this book a classic?????

Rating:
Summary: An excellent book
Review: Carson portrays life as it really is. It isn't for those that want to escape reality and expect the happy ending. We are too expectant of fast entertainment that comes cheap and without meaning. This is a book that divulges into the lives of true human beings and their struggles. I found it profoundly moving. It was a book that really did catch the essence of human feeling such as loneliness and the struggle for something true in life. Overall, I found this an excellent read.

Rating:
Summary: Carson McCullers details life in a small southern town
Review: This is one book where the reader cannot but help to become emotionally involved in the lives of the characters that, at the time of its writing, the twenty-three year old Carson McCullers detailed with such enigmatic and poignant care. It is a very emotionally draining expeience as Carson takes the reader on a journey of the depths of the human soul. She examines social prejudices through the eyes of a mute deaf named Singer, a young dreamer named Mick Kelly, a loud mouth drunken Marxist named Jake Blount, a tavern operator with a sullen heart named Biff Brannon, and a African-American Doctor known as Dr. Copeland who is both an activist and learned man. This is an extremely active story with subplots that interweave with poetic grace and styling. the setting is a small southern town in the post-depression era. The young McCullers wrote this without overexaming the social problems of the time. She lays the groundwork and lets the reader form his or her own opinions about the social situations affecting each of the main characters. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is a fascinating novel, depicting the hardships of life of a small southern town without purging itself on social stylings and prose. A must read for fans of classic American prose.