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Summary: Boring, from an adolecents Point of View
Review: I am a teenager from Missouri, and I chose to read The Heart is a Lonely Hunter from my summer reading list freshman year. I enjoy many classic novels, but I found this one to be extremely slow-paced and boring. Everytime you think that something interesting happens, or it does, it just ends there and picks up on another uninteresting scene. I think Carson had a nice writing style, but maybe should have worked on her creativity.
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Summary: For those who love to read, the "Lonely Hunters"
Review: I always love delving into a well-written, even complex book and getting into the minds of the characters. I was not bored or disappointed at all by this book. It is a book that will appeal to those who feel caught between "irony and faith," or for people who are searching for truth and something to give a lonely life fulfillment.
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Summary: This book gave me a very big headache
Review: I appreciate Carson's accomplishments as a writer but this book was painful to read. It was difficult (ok, BORING) to follow and the characters did not hold my interest at all. She was all over the place. I will try to read some of her other work. Someone please tell me how it made the top 100 book list. Someone mentioned that she ties it all together at the end--but if I could not get through the beginning and the middle--who cares?
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Summary: A Good Book
Review: Since I am a freshman in high school I feel as though this is way out of my range of reading. Plus, I mostly read adult murders by Patricia Cornwell, Robin Cook, etc. I had to read this book for my honors english class and I find this book very entertaining, insightful, and somewhat depressing, especially about all the lonliness.
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Summary: Very Detailed and Unique
Review: Overall I liked The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. It started out kind of slow but got better towards the end. It was kinda shocking at some parts, but that was what made the book enjoyable. I was surprised that everyone seemed to revolve around Singer. I thought Mick would be the main character. After I was finished with the book, I sat back and thought about all the troubles and feeling of isolation that all the characters had to go through. All in all, I thought it was pretty good.
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Summary: confused
Review: This book was all over the place. I wasn't quite sure whose story was being told or what the overall theme was. Some parts of the book were very promising, but these parts led nowhere. I'm not quite sure why this book made the list of top 100 books. It's a good book, but I wouldn't call it one of the best. If someone can explain what I'm missing, please email me.
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Summary: A circle of loneliness with Mr. Singer as the centrifuge
Review: Great book. One of the best opening lines ever. "In the town there were two mutes, and they were always together." Mr. Singer was conducting a brilliant symphony of loneliness. He was rather like bugs bunny conducting a piece that he had never heard. Hands flying here and there, nodding, smiling, but not understanding. A wonderful character. Each noun, verb, and adjective had such an overwhelming sense of passion and sensitivity. Her writing, I think, betrays the happenings of her own life. The BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFE is another of Carson McCullers' coups.
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Summary: Great For Book Groups With Patience
Review: Carson McCullers showed unusual maturity when she wrote The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter at age 23. McCullers drives home the deep necessity within all human beings to be understood by another human being. She illustrates poignantly, the lengths people go to, within their own minds, to find this deep understanding from another.McCullers deals extensively with passion, suggesting we live in a society that systematically wrings peoples' passions out of their lives. Unfortunately, the excellent thematic depth is couched inside a writing sytle that regularly becomes tedious. The book has much discussable material for a book group and would be appropriate for a group willing to patiently wade through the repetitive nature of the book.
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Summary: one of the best books I've ever read
Review: The characters, themes, and style make this book awesome.
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Summary: Not what I expected...
Review: I'm a college freshman, and this past summer I decided I was going to read as many 'classics' as I could possibly handle. Instead, I decided to read everything by McCullers that I could get my hands on, and was really disappointed by this book. The Member of the Wedding seemed so much more complete and real to me than Hunter did. I just really wanted this book to be some grand eye-opening experience and it didn't turn out that way. I think McCullers tried to go into detail with too many characters and found this book to focus around John Singer, the deaf-mute, a lot more than Mick Kelly, the supposed heroine of the novel. Also, I read Hunter right after the Ballad of the Sad Cafe, and all these similar female leads started to run together for me. To the readers that found Hunter similar to To Kill A Mockingbird, I see your point stylistically, but that book was much more deep and emotional than Hunter. Overall, I was pretty disappointed with this novel, although the title is perhaps my favorite ever...
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