Comments on: Flannery O’Connor

By: Sister Wolf

Sister Wolf — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 10:32:59 +0000

tartandtreacly – I loved Vanity Fair as well! And I like Alice Munro too. I know what you mean about mush: I blame the internet as well as encroaching dementia.

Aly – Love Kurt Vonnegut. I would only read Eat Pray Love at gunpoint!

By: Aly

Aly — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 04:54:59 +0000

I would recommend anything and everything by Kurt Vonnegut. Good God do I idolize that Man. Also, On The Road by Cormac McCarthy- brilliant.

Thanks for the recommendation. I know I can trust you with something as sacred as a good novel recommendation. If I listened to my friends I would be reading shite like Eat, Pray, Love. *shudder*

By: tartandtreacly

tartandtreacly — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:48:43 +0000

I haven’t read Flannery O’Connor in a long while and have never read “The Violent Bear It Away.” I really should.

Every year I read a little less and a little more of my brain turns to mush. If you like southern gothic, you might want to give Alice Munro a go (have to pimp my Canadian authors!)

Stuff I did read recently and liked very much:

– Thackeray’s Vanity Fair (delicious, like an apple ripe with strychnine)

– a collection of Mike Royko’s columns. (Royko was a Chicago newspaperman, full of opinions and full of wit. I think you’d like him.)

By: Sister Wolf

Sister Wolf — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 21:36:34 +0000

Bonnie – I will try his stories, thank you!

By: Sister Wolf

Sister Wolf — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 21:35:38 +0000

David – Are you kidding?? Farmer Brown is terrifying!!!!

By: David Duff

David Duff — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 11:41:06 +0000

For you, Big Sis, I recommend some Beatrix Potter, it might cheer you up from what sounds like the ghastly up-chuckings of Ms. O’Connor.

By: Bonnie

Bonnie — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 21:33:05 +0000

Flannery O’Connor totally blew me away the first time i read her, and she still does. I highly recommend the short stories of Steven Millhauser. I’m currently reading the newest collection, “We Others”.

By: Sister Wolf

Sister Wolf — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 20:50:53 +0000

Marky – Well, years ago when I was a reader, I had to read something by Mr. Gooch, either a first novel in galleys or maybe a screenplay. I remember being slightly traumatized by how deeply awful it was. I will take you word that he is a new man, writing-wise!

By: Sister Wolf

Sister Wolf — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 20:47:53 +0000

Kristin – In existentialism, willful ignorance is also a sin called “bad faith.” And I detest it wherever I see it. But farm equipment – I would draw the line there. I hope.

By: Kristin

Kristin — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 18:40:50 +0000

O’Connor would appeal to you Sister Wolf. I call you a Slasher Opinionator and so was she. She goes to the most brutal end. Her religion was her calling though you don’t have to be Catholic to get her point. One of the elements she traces is the sin of “willful ignorance.” In one of her stories a Southern family sponsors an immigrant man and lets him work one of their pieces of farm equipment. They willfully ignore the fact that it is dangerous and that he doesn’t know how to handle it and let him be cut to bits.