The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

When I thought about starting this blog, I must have thought of a hundred books that I would rather begin with, but here I am posting my first entry about Carson McCuller's The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter. If you start to notice a theme in some of the books that I read, it's because I am attempting to read Newsweek's list of the top 100 novels.
     

 Making my way through the first 15 has been...difficult at times. Gone With the Wind was easy, even if it did take a few months. The History of the Peloponneisian War however, is not something I would say I'm exactly looking forward to. To even begin to review the books on this list was not something I planned on doing. After all, who am I to critique Ernest Hemingway or Mark Twain? But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that I don't want to critique them. I want to share them. I want to share my experience, and that means you'll just have to take the good with the bad.
     

 The Heart is a Lonely Hunter was hardly a bad experience for me. It's the story of 5 individuals who in one way or another feel isolated from society. I think that that may have been why it took me a little longer to get in to, because it was so many separate stories. That, and the fact that I thought the girl on the cover was supposed to be Mick (It's not. It's definitely Carson McCullers).
    

Anyway, the book really turned around for me during the tail end of the story. Looking back, I probably should have been able to predict what would happen, but I didn't and when the story reached climax I literally gasped.
 If you attempt to read it, (And personally, I suggest you attempt to read the entire list) be patient. It was definitely worth it in the end.