Title: Searing
Product review: This book is a work of some genius, and very few of Faulkner's penetrating observations ring false or obvious. And yet, you're not gonna believe this, but Faulkner's muse alights from the book at about the three-quarter-way mark. But instead of winding it up at that point, as he well could have, he putts along a little way under effort-power until it all folds up just the same.To weigh in on the comparisons with Cormac McCarthy: Faulkner does a better job of reading his characters' minds and motivations, whereas the 'Child of God' eschews such trivia for matters of greater substance. It's like Faulkner has a greater knowledge of literature; and McCarthy a greater knowledge of life. Or Faulkner has seven eggs in the mind basket and five in the heart; and McCarthy vice-versa -- which actually makes him a little bit smarter.
Would you say this review depicts the product in a flattering or unflattering light?
