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adorará Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se gostará deste livro.  gaskella | Jul 30, 2008 |  I remember the first time I read this. In the beginning of the book, this ex-football hero sits down in his white trash trailer for dinner of overcooked meat and undercooked veggies, and his again-pregnant wife has snot on her face and the two kids are bawling at the top of their lungs and he explodes. I laughed so hard I almost literally died laughing. Crews knows how to make pain and misery funny. (  ) andyray | Jun 11, 2008 | The very first book I ever read by Harry Crews and being a fan of writers like Bukowski and Fante, I was instantly hooked. Crews' tough and visceral writing style pummels you with the text, there is no subtlety or redemption here. Yet, there is great humor as well. Crews revels the absurd, the offbeat, and the downright disturbing, crafting it into a very engrossing story. Unfortunately Crews has that very adolescent view of women that plagues a lot of writers, so the ladies in the book seem more like porno extras than fully fleshed out characters. The ending also falls apart quickly, leaving you somewhat soured on what otherwise is a great read. (  ) | Jan 26, 2008 | edit | |   I tend to like these fairly disturbing "Southern gothic" novels, and this one is right up there at the top. How can you help but be drawn to this novel, with character names like "Hard Candy Sweet"? ( ) jessifinnie | Aug 14, 2007 | This is a dark book, and worth reading if you like southern literature or reptiles. For me, parts were hard to read because of the associations of evil and snakes, as well as some of the graphic violence directed at them and around them, which I think might have gone over the line into shock value at a few points. But overall, this was a good and quick read--just take the warnings above into account when you pick it up. (  ) whitewavedarling | Jul 3, 2007 |  sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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As the crowds for the Roundup start to overfill the camping area, Joe Lon feels on the inside like a barrel of snakes: "a writhing of the darkness, an incessant boiling of something thick and slow-moving." As he and his good ol' buddy get ready to wander around and check out the scene, Joe Lon says, "Just a bunch of crazy people cranking up to git crazier. But that's all right. Feel on the edge of doing something outstanding myself."
A Feast of Snakes is probably the most skillfully crafted and entertaining novel ever written in which a fed up person goes violently berserk. But Harry Crews belongs to the tradition of great Southern weird writers such as Flannery O'Connor, so A Feast of Snakes is richer than that: Crews serves up the reality of people's savage and unrelenting cruelty toward animals and toward each other, stark truths about human despair, male-female face-offs at their sexiest and most ruthless, and (here's his real genius) humor so powerful you can't help but laugh--even though it hurts when you do.
A Feast of Snakes, first published in 1976, is a dazzling and flawless horror novel. --Fiona Webster
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It's tragedy in the making, and the writing is brutal, visceral, yet not without a wicked sense of humour in the caricature of the characters. No words are wasted in this cinematic novel of murder and mayhem, and the tension builds and builds until it finally explodes in an stunning ending that shakes you to the core. (