Wise Blood: A Novel

what a strange, strange, odd book. i don't know if i liked it or hated it, i don't know what it was supposed to mean, but i know it was hard to put down...

still thinking about it two days later. twisted humanity. loss. blindness. faith. Flannery O'Connor doesn't get the attention she deserves.

Wonderful Southern Gothic. The subject of perhaps my favorite paper of all those I ever wrote in college, undergraduate or graduate.

Southern gothic at its most, er, gothic. And Southern! A fascinating and unpleasant tale of Hazel Motes, a traveling preacher who hates Jesus Christ. Rebelling against his religious upbringing, Hazel preaches the gospel of the Church Without Christ, but he encounters a series of grotesques that keep pulling him back to earth. O'Connor's characters are bizarre and compelling, and at 115...more

Southern gothic at its most, er, gothic. And Southern! A fascinating and unpleasant tale of Hazel Motes, a traveling preacher who hates Jesus Christ. Rebelling against his religious upbringing, Hazel preaches the gospel of the Church Without Christ, but he encounters a series of grotesques that keep pulling him back to earth. O'Connor's characters are bizarre and compelling, and at 115 pages, this book was definitely the perfect length. A mesmerizing, but upsetting read.   hide