Zach’s Reviews > Hard Rain Falling > Status Update

Still shocking, sentences remain electric. I keep thinking Scott Galloway is famous for saying all these things about displaced young men and Carpenter wrote the novel about it in 66. Flawed, troubled characters as a product of their time.

Carpenter sure seems to be writing something postsecular even if, as an avowed atheist, he rejects org. religion. A sense of, “is that all there is?”, lingers throughout.

Each page is electric. The grammar is clean and sharp; the language is harsh. Carpenter can write bleeding sentences that cut you at the same time.

I only realized some friends of mine read this and didn’t enjoy it after starting, so I’m waiting for a shoe to drop.

But, as of right now, Carpenter’s incredibly skilled. I keep thinking of that Hemingway line of just writing one true sentence after another.

The Dostoevsky link is apt. No characters to emulate here, but unflinching depictions of people who’re the result of a cultural moment/ideology.