The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
Author: Carson Mc Cullers
Narrator: Cherry Jones
Unabridged: 12 hr 28 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Harper Audio
Published: 07/06/2004
Category: Fiction - African American - Historical
Author: Carson Mc Cullers
Narrator: Cherry Jones
Unabridged: 12 hr 28 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Harper Audio
Published: 07/06/2004
Category: Fiction - African American - Historical
I typically like this type of fiction, but I have found this book very difficult to get through.
Good Grief... BORING. This was awful, the dialogue was terrible,the hokey venacular, the weird fragmented thoughts... I couldn't even get half way thru it and I returned it.
I finished this book only because I have the sometimes unfortunate habit of finishing whatever I start. And probably to consume my suspicions that I was consuming a doughnut hole. A whole lot of pretty much nothing happens that might not have happened in any southern dysfunctional town of the day. And aren't most towns and families and people dysfunctional on some level? In my mind's eye of the artist I am not, I can sum this book up in about five mini-portraits of the most interesting things that happened. The rest was just filler that felt pretty unstructured - I guess, one could argue, like life. I could probably have written a great paper on this in college about the existential disconnect of everyday existence embodied in the main character, magnified by the personal take each satellite character imposes on him, based on their own beef with the world. However, it's not a book I'd recommend anyone pick up for sheer pleasure.