Matt Ryan #CanonChat 📕: My Brilliant Friend
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HS English teacher; #CanonChat; Jane Austen and Van Halen enthusiast; Catholic; Hockey fan; I teach diverse books and defend the canon; Matthew 5:44
Amer. Mythos Region Rd 1 Results: 1 InvisibleMan def 16 Redeployment 9 ThingsCarried def 8 RaisinInSun 12 MyÁntonia def 5 GoTellIt 13 PrettyHorses def 4 Sula 6 SunRises def 11 PianoLesson 3 HuckFinn def 14 Plainsong 7 GoodMan def 10 MaRainey 2 Douglass def 15 Tortilla #CanonChat
I read the first hundred pages of The Road last year, and read the first hundred pages of Blood Meridian this year, and in both instances, gave up, because the books never clicked. Lyrical writing, but the characters are reduced to way down Maslow's hierarchy, and the tone is so relentlessly bleak, with almost no humanity breaking through, it was difficult to feel anything besides the flint clicking against the cold steel in the overwhelming darkness. I know many of you love it, but to me, it's overwrought, overstylized, and overhyped.
It's time for the American Mythos region of the #CanonChat Bracket. Vote in the replies.
#3 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn vs #14 Plainsong #CanonChat
