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I've read most of McCarthy's books, and he's an American original, no doubt. He's also, often, one of our darkest writers. For example, Blood Meridian has to be the bloodiest book I've ever read. And Outer Dark is, well, Dark. Then came his Border Trilogy. You can see the Light coming through. But at the end of Cities of the Plain, you could see the Darkness returning. Indeed, the weirdness of that book's ending signals to some extent The Road.
The Road is McCarthy's greatest book, his Billy Bud ...more
The Road is McCarthy's greatest book, his Billy Bud ...more
What a disappointment. I have been wanting to read this one forever!
Boring. No plot. No characterization. No dialogue. No background. This book is not even scary!
Then...it is also chock-full of pseudo-deep philosophical lines like this: "Who is it? said the boy. I dont know. Who is anybody?"
I was laughing out loud at moments like that, but I don't think this is supposed to literary satire, is it?
I was ready to shoot that boy who all he did was cry and say he was cold.
This book makes no sense wh ...more
Boring. No plot. No characterization. No dialogue. No background. This book is not even scary!
Then...it is also chock-full of pseudo-deep philosophical lines like this: "Who is it? said the boy. I dont know. Who is anybody?"
I was laughing out loud at moments like that, but I don't think this is supposed to literary satire, is it?
I was ready to shoot that boy who all he did was cry and say he was cold.
This book makes no sense wh ...more
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