Wise Blood Audiobook

" I didn't like Flannery O'Connor for a long time, but after having taken a fresh look at her stuff, I can't figure out why. This is quite good, religious in an unexpected way, and a lot creepier and more surreal than I'd expected. "

" Eh -Didnt really get it. "

" Southern U.S. author from 1949. Post-WWII internal upheaval about religion and spiritual belief as the world heals and soldiers come home. Interesting intro to her writing. I need a conversation with someone to work through it more, but I enjoyed it. "

" I loved it but for some reason, reading it was a drag. Maybe it was the typography, or maybe I was too tired, I dunno. Check it out, if you like that southern gothic stuff with blind preachers, devious women and other outcasts. "

" I understand Flannery O'Connor's religious persuasions and oddball sense of humor, but that doesn't mean I have to like it. "

" Read it! And while you're at it, John Huston made a great movie out of it that you should see too. "

" flannery o'connor cruelly dissects society's outcasts. this is not a woman with a generous view of humanity, which makes it an enjoyable but often depressing experience. despite the modern-gothic subject matter and the occasionally ornate turn of phrase, a swift read. strangely affecting and open to interpretation on different levels. and funny! "

" had to read this novel for a southern literature class that I'm taking. Didn't enjoy it at all and had a very hard time understanding the dialogs due to the southern lingo (I'm from the north). A lot of symbolism, I think. "

" Quirky and so true to some of characters I've met in the rural South. "

" Well written, interesting characters and situations, but I guess I completely missed the point. It didn't really go anywhere. "

" This is also a favourite in the library. I love how totally crazy it is , with images that stick with you. I want to reread it soon. "

" I chose this book because of O'Connor's reputation, but I did not get a whole lot out of it. "

" read mosta this already in story-form; better as stories, but she's always always so good. "

" This I appreciate with all its surgical slashes against this and that and its perfectly grotesque aesthetic. But again, what, please tell me, is the point? "

" I thought I would really enjoy this book because I remember being really dazzled by O'Connor's stories. But it kind of went right over my head. It baffled me. I didn't feel like I was getting what she wanted to communicate. The characters were creepy. "

" Heavy in symbolism and other literary trappings, it kind of gets way far up it's own buttnest and then you want to stop. "

" Strange, discomforting, unusual, thought provoking, well written - one of those books it's good to read, even if you're slightly relieved to get to the end of it. "

" I found this book very odd. At times it was quite funny - good, dark humor -- but mostly it just seemed weired. The characters and situations were grotesque, and consequently the book just wasn't my cup of tea. "

" keep tuned..... "

" I would not have picked up a book like this except that it was by Flannery O'Connor. She is a master of tension, story and characterization. Her word choice seems so natural but is so perfect that it has to be deliberate. "

" Flannery O'Connor is terrifying. "

" Further evidence that the South understands what we call surrealism as a kind of hyperreality. Brutal and funny and terrible. "

" I love Flannery O'Connor. I love this book. Some people say that she was at her best in her short stories, and while I would not take a thing a way from her stories, I think this novel pretty near perfect. One of my five or six favorite books. "

" Southern Gothic. You can't beat it. "

" You will never read another book like this. I am reading this because it is summer reading for my son, a junior in high school. "

" Amazing. Brilliant. Chilling. In my top ten. One you'll think about months and months later. "

" I loved the characters and the writing in this book. My only problem with this book is that it read more like a series of connected short stories set chronologically in a book. Sometimes it lacked flow. "

" O'Conner's prose is utterly engaging, her characters vivid, bizarre, and haunted; her theology some sort of Catholicism that apparently is inescapable. She's one of the greats, to be sure, but I find this more caricature than fiction. "

" Read this my Sophmore year of college in Philosophy of Religion, with Father Rene McGraw. Wise Blood is a compelling story of a young man's search for God and redemption. The young man, I forget his name, seeks to convert others to a fire and brimstone version of athiesm in which all are sinners. "

" Southern writer writing about strange, eccentric people with oddball religious ideas. Not sure what the title represents. "

" This is a challenging story in the best ways. I very well might have given it only three stars if I didn't have the help of O'Connor's one-paragraph foreword to the second edition. For me, that alone bumps it up at least another star. "

" I remember reading this in college--not my favorite; it was weird and dark. "

" Text gets 5 stars. This is a great book, one of my favorite "Southern" novels, (what's a "Northern" novel?) but Pinchot's voices get a little similar. And I really couldn't get over that it was Bronson Pinchot reading it. I understand why actors don't want to be pigeon holed. "

" Yuck. I realize the importance of this novel and the writing is interesting and different, but I found myself rushing through it just so I could get to the end and be done with it. It may be a while before I re-visit Flannery O'Connor. "