#2
Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor
"Wise
Blood: An idea that one has innate, worldly knowledge of what direction to take
in life, and requires no spiritual or emotional guidance.
Hazel
Motes is a simpleton from Tennessee who leaves home and travels by train to Taulkinham
where he spreads his gospel of anti-religion and the church of No Jesus. Motes meets several interesting characters
along the way, all of them over the top.
But this is OK, because this exaggerated treatment of these characters
makes for an interesting and compelling story.
Flannery O’Connor loves mixing religion with her beloved American
South. And because it is Flannery, don’t expect rainbows and unicorns.
Two favorite quotes:
“Rat Colored Car”
“Eyes the color of clear fresh ice”
5 / 5 Stars
#3
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Inspired
by Conrad’s journey to the Congo in 1890.
I don’t
know what to say. I didn’t enjoy this book.
I can’t say I cared that the main character Marlow was on a ship
traveling to Africa for Ivory trading.
This is
the problem with some classics, they are not relatable. I’m not in for high
adventure. Perhaps when this was written (before TV) it served its purpose, but
today’s reader can’t connect to this.
I did
enjoy some of the language, especially the quotes below.
“The germs
of empires”
“Like a
running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in
the flicker.”
“Free as
air and nearly as thin.”
“We live
as we dream, alone.”
“I should
be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”
3 / 5 Stars
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