Cage's Bend

I was unfamiliar with this author, just came across the book in the public library. Parts of the novel, especially at the beginning, are pure brilliance. The ideas there are fresh and the writing is nearly poetic. The funniest and most outrageous scenes are near the beginning. There were several lin......more

This a book that took much longer than a year to read. It was truly almost unbearable to read. I see that most of the reviews on this book are high, and that's great if you liked it, but I did not. I thought this book needed an extreme edit. There were whole chapters that were aimless and utterly bo......more

This book COULD have been the next Catcher in the Rye, but the author threw in sex scenes that didn't advance plot and used excessive profanity in such a way that it was a difficult read in places. If that had been edited out, I could have given it a "5." I'm not a prude, either--my own fiction cont......more

Cage’s Bend, by Carter Coleman “He says when the Son of God was tempted by what he called the devil, he was speaking of personalized Evil. Even when he is consecrating communion, he fells slammed by temptation and says, Satan, get the hell out of here. In the name of Jesus Christ, I command you to go......more

Selected this book at random, and it immediately pulled me in. The depiction of a family and all of its complexity appealed to me. As I continued reading it, I didn't know what to think, and there were times when I questioned whether I wanted to devote more time to it. However, there were fragments......more