http://deepsouthmag.com/2012/08/10-required-reads-for-adults/ Fri, 17 May 2013 13:02:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://deepsouthmag.com/2012/08/10-required-reads-for-adults/#comment-10314 Susan Cushman Tue, 28 Aug 2012 16:21:24 +0000 http://deepsouthmag.com/?p=9721#comment-10314 I’ve read 1-7, so I guess I get a 70. But I’m thankful that I’m no longer being graded. As an adult, one freedom I enjoy is being able to read whatever I choose. I agree with Conrad on “The Road” being too bleak. And I’ve never been a mystery fan, so I’ll pass on No. 9. The only one on your list that intrigues me is No. 10. Having just read my friend, Ellen Ann Fentress’s wonderful review of Richard Wright’s “Foreign Son” in the Oxford American, I’m wondering if “Native Son” might be worth the read. And I would add to this list (or perhaps replace 8 and 9 with) “The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor” and “The Hours” by Michael Cunningham.

]]> http://deepsouthmag.com/2012/08/10-required-reads-for-adults/#comment-10067 Conrad Deitrick Mon, 20 Aug 2012 19:38:45 +0000 http://deepsouthmag.com/?p=9721#comment-10067 I’ve read most of McCarthy’s published novels, but I am taking a pass on the Road–it smacks too much of bleak awfulness for bleak awfulness’s sake to me, without the kind of chillingly compelling philosophical horror of, say, Blood Meridian.

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