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Title: Heart is a
lonely hunter, the
Author: Carson McCullers
Genre: fiction
Rating: 
The book started promising. You get to know the characters and you think the
rest will be a good story about these people in a small American town. In a way
you get what you thought, but not entirely. For one, I never really got to know
the characters, they didn't move me in any way. Second, I never got in the
different storylines and the story as a whole. The story didn't sweep me away
from my own living room into the world created. Third, there is always a time and
place for different subjects. So when this book started to
give me political and social standards between North and South and black and
white, my lust for reading decreased with every word I read. No subtleties there
and I think the way it is brought to us here, doesn't belong in a fiction
book. The storyline of Mick Kelly, a twelve year old girl, is interesting
enough, with her way of experiencing the world and the people around her, but the storyline
of doctor Copeland and Portia, I really didn't like because of the political nature. The
other storylines, of Mr. Singer, Biff Brannon and Jake Blount were good enough
at times to keep me going, but I still can't be enthusiastic about the book. It
didn't affect me like I expect a good read to do. I only registered what I read,
but couldn't make a world out of it.
It's a story of loss of innocence, a loss of self and a loss of life. So what
should have been a brilliant story is, for me, nothing more than a book I tried
to get through as quick as possible so I could start a new book.
If you liked this
book, you should try:
To
kill a mockingbird
Tree grows in Brooklyn
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