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The writing is this book has ruined me for every other author of our time. Cormac McCarthy is the single-best author in America today. That's not an opinion - that's a fact. Here's what he does - he makes the innocuous sinister and the mundane spectacularly dire. He does this by never having a clear "this is the end of the fireworks display." Sadness is woven into the tapestry of the story, not the end of it. Because here's how life works (unless you don't know) - ...more
The writing is this book has ruined me for every other author of our time. Cormac McCarthy is the single-best author in America today. That's not an opinion - that's a fact. Here's what he does - he makes the innocuous sinister and the mundane spectacularly dire. He does this by never having a clear "this is the end of the fireworks display." Sadness is woven into the tapestry of the story, not the end of it. Because here's how life works (unless you don't know) - ...more
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