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... left out from the 2008 edition:
1. Never Let Me Go
50. The Ground Beneath Her Feet
51. Sputnik Sweetheart
155. The Violent Bear It Away
175. Ficciones
232. The Turn of the Screw
268. Northanger Abbey
269. Persuasion
... the Library of America's edition of Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works, which includes her two novels, Wise Blood and The Violent Bear It Away , and her two books of short stories A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories and Everything That Rises Must Converge, along with selected ...
194, for real: The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor. I've heard this book is funny, satirical, witty, etc. I found it totally humorless. Where's the funny? No funny here. It's disturbing, in a way where at the end instead of contemplating the book itself, or the "message" or whatever..you ...
I just started The Violent Bear it Away by Flannery O'Connor. So far...it's weird. And I like it.
... it is remarkably close in feeling to the novel. I did enjoy the novel more than I expected to, and I am glad I read it.
The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor is, as O'Connor's stories and novels often are, a mix of satire and heartbreak. This is on the 1001 Must Read list, which is ...
... mpleted:
Greenwich Killing Time by Kinky Friedman
Moonheart by Charles de Lint
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor
My thoughts...
The Wood Wife was Terri Windling at her best, combining myth, mystery, and good storytelling. The book ...
The Violent Bear it Away
by Flannery OʻConnor
I know these lists are subjective, and I certainly understand the desire to include some Flannery O'Connor, but I thought The Violent Bear it Away was much better as a novel than Wise Blood. Her natural ouvre was the short-story while the novel was more difficult for her to structure. I think ...
63. The Violent Bear It Away: A Novel by Flannery O'Conner
The Plague by Camus, The violent bear it away , Shiloh (The Civil War Battle Series, Book 2) on audio CD during my daily commute
Almost all my reading is the 'old' stuff. At the moment I'm reading Far From the Madding Crowd and The Violent Bear it Away . There's simply too much great writing from the past for me to bother with the latest works of literature. I try and pick something up from Archipelago books every once in ...
While I enjoyed both of O'Connor's novels, The violent Bear It Away more than Wise Blood, they are both episodic and in ways uneven. Her true metier is the short story. I enjoy her short stories more than any other writer I can think of. She evokes a South with which I am intimately ...
Unless I am mistaken, the only other O'Connor novel is The Violent Bear it Away . BTW, I like this novel better than Wise Blood, but they are both as Southern Gothic as they get.
I think O'Connor's novels are an acquired taste. she really wasn't a very good long form writer, but her short ...
#263: Wise Blood, IMO, is O'Connor's best work. She wrote some other things that are good, but to me, her other novel (The Violent Bear It Away ) and short stories do not live up to Wise Blood. Glad you liked it.
... ones I did, I hope we can still be friends! ;-)
Woman in White is a great Victorian mystery novel--I love the genre!
The Violent Bear It Away --I love everything Flannery O'Conner wrote--and I've read it all. If you like this, I recommend reading Habit of Being--a collection of her ...
... 2009)
--Hard Times by Charles Dickens
--Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenov
--The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
--The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor
... among wolves james kavanaugh
the moon is always female marge piercy
a good man is hard to find flannery o'connor
the violent bear it away flannery o'connor
she's come undone wally lamb
The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor
I'm in the second movement of Dance to the Music of Time. I'm also reading Nostromo by Joseph Conrad, The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor and Fear of Flying by Erica Jong.
Last week I finished The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Boll. It was just ...
The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor
As the winning reviewer of August's selection, The Violent Bear it Away , jhowell has the honor of picking our reading assignment for October.
Reminder: September's selection is 1862: A Novel by Robert Conroy.
As the winning reviewer of August's selection, The Violent Bear it Away , jhowell has the honor of picking a book for October.
As a reminder, September's selection is 1862: a novel by Robert Conroy.
... enter you into competition to select the featured book for November. Meanwhile, reviewers of August's Book of the Month, The Violent Bear it Away by Flannery O'Connor, will vie for the honor of making October's selection.
Happy page-turning!
Ok, kids. It's (practically) August, so The Violent Bear it Away by Flannery O'Connor is up to the plate. All reviews (not just those from folks who read it this month) are eligible in the contest to decide who picks October's Book of the Month.
The only book I have ever read by her was The Violent Bear it Away so I can't comment on whether it is really a good place to start. But it is fairly short and accessible although IMHO bizarre and disturbing -- I think it is a great examle of the Southern Gothic genre.
... ISBN of the O'Connor LOA book and added the book to my library again. I then edited the book data and changed the title to The Violent Bear it Away and gave it a tag that tells me it is not a real book, but a mock book for the specific title. This allows me to treat this mock book as a real ...
My review of The Violent Bear it Away can be read here
... -- Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy, Carson McCullers, and I did recently read The Violent Bear it Away .
Very mixed feelings about the Violent (see my review)and lots of questions so I'll look forward to discussing with y'all. One thing that ...
As selected by geneg, August's "Deep South Book of the Month" is Flannery O'Connor's The Violent Bear it Away , reported to be a veritable classic of southern gothic.
For something Southern and Gothic I choose The Violent Bear it Away by Flannery O'Connor. I look forward to your reviews and I hope everyone enjoys this book.
Here's one from the great Flannery O'connor: The Violent Bear it Away
"Francis Marion Tarwater's uncle had been dead for only half a day when the boy got too drunk to finish digging his grave and a Negro named Buford Munson, who had come to get a jug filled, had to finish it and drag the ...
I am reading The Violent Bear it Away by Flannery O'Connor. Her scary good prose and imagery are blowing me away. It reads like a creepy art house movie with alot of darkness, ugly characters, no background music, and powerful bizarre dialogue. I am definately liking it -- although a little ...
I finished Fifth Business by Robertson Davies this weekend. Great writing; OK story.
I am currently reading The Violent Bear it Away by Flannery O'Connor -- Wow! Her prose is scary. As a secular New Englander living in the South, rubbing up against the evangelical rural population ...
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