Don Carpenter

One of the best books I have read, as a teenager struggling for identity, the catcher in the rye struck a chord with me and in adulthood this book has done the same.

Carpenter makes so many observations, some incredibly humorous others raw, cutting the crap and stripping away the bullshit; leaving you thinking holy shit he's right, he has a damn good point.

It felt like three books in one and he nearly timed the pace of the book to a t, the final third was definitely read with most appetite.… (mehr)

To me, this is close to a perfect novel. It's a shame it's not mentioned often among classics of that era. It's incredibly easy to digest while also being absolutely stunning. Those who like A Little Life and works by Cormac McCarthy but like to hop off the beaten path to books not everyone's read will enjoy this immensely.

To quote the Rumpus review: "Hard Rain Falling is populist fiction at its best. It is not just a good novel. It might be the most unheralded important American novel of the 1960s."

(It's been said it's a crime novel; I'll challenge that and say it's not really, and it's much more.)… (mehr)