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Of all that I have read, sampled, sniffed in 2013, this undoubtedly is the best. By far.

Unimpressive so far. The voice is *definitely not* of a male author.

This is a masterpiece. To me it is.

God damn you, Chinaski.

adore you, Hamsun.

No idea what's going on. Since Page 1 that is. But boy, is it fun to read the sentences!

Joyce Carol Oates. Nice woman :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEnROS...

Five star material occasionally let down by self-indulgence or too much ambition or perhaps Faulkner worship. But this is a first novel. And what a first novel!

Coen brothers, btw, seem to have borrowed a lot from McCarthy's works.

Have to read twice every other para to make out what is happening. Reading through forums it appears that's how McCarthy intended to be read.

I also needed to make distinctions which were clear. From then on I wanted dreams to have their place, to let them belong to the night. And I wanted what happened, what I saw, what I did, to belong to the day. Until I died I hoped that I would live in full recognition of the difference between the two. I hope I have done that.

And then it came and there was a gasp from the crowd, it was a gasp of delight before it was anything but it also contained shock and a sort of unease that grew into a hunger for more and thus the gasping became shouting and cheering and yelling and catcalling because on the balcony with blood streaming down his face and a thing made of thorns pushed back into the side of his head, my son came wearing the purple robe

flows...

What he is doing isn't Hilary Mantel doing it too, by doing the opposite? Strip a myth, or mythologize anew - they point to the same phenomena.

This book is a bride between the rise and the fall. It does what LOTR#2 did, what all seconds in trilogies do.

A 4 star book till now, and yet a major let down. How high the standards of Wolf Hall #1!
The second chapter 'Crows' was like an output from a software code that is Hilary Mantel's brain. It could have gone on forever...

'Therefore a woman who is perfectly truthful and does not dissemble is perhaps an impossibility.'
- On Women, Arthur Schopenhauer
(Greatest line ever?)

her life should flow more quietly, more gently, and less obtrusively than man's, without her being essentially happier or unhappier."
- On Women, Arthur Schopenhauer

One need only look at a woman's shape to discover that she is not intended for either too much mental or too much physical work. She pays the debt of life not by what she does but by what she suffers--by the pains of child-bearing, care for the child, and by subjection to man, to whom she should be a patient and cheerful companion. The greatest sorrows and joys or great exhibition of strength are not assigned to her;