I have tried multiple times to get thru this long winded, pretentious, repetitive and boring "masterpiece of American literature." I thought I was defective for not loving it (since it got a zillion 5 star reviews), but nope...I hate it and am finally at peace with my judgment.
I'm gunna be harsh. Why not? McCarthy is. I novel is hanged with the fancy rope so many other reviewers extravagantly embroider for it: monotony, flatness, and one-dimensionality. Hold on there illiterate scum, you say, what about all that blood dripping symbolism (and bold historical perspective). ...
4/4 - I've read 23 pages and have come to the conclusion that I need to start again in order to comprehend this better and so I can start a glossary. I've already come across enough unfamiliar words in the 23 pages that I've read that I can't remember them all - I need to write them down. Here is a ...
Finally I finished this godforsaken book. It would be 1 stars if not for the setting which I kind of enjoyed. I disliked everything else about this book. Urgh, what a waste of time.
One of the best books I've read by a living author. It is an extremely violent Western. It can be seen as a deconstruction of the Western, but if that were all there were too it, it would not be really interesting, because, at least for movies, most famous westerns are deconstructions of the weste...
In David Foster Wallace's posthumous essay collection [b:Both Flesh and Not|13528351|Both Flesh and Not Essays|David Foster Wallace|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1338050573s/13528351.jpg|19082141] there's a little piece called "Five Direly Underappreciated US Novels > 1960," and Wallac...
All reading is transformative for the reader, even if it’s merely additive or supplemental--a cumulation of more knowledges, the text inscribed on the reading mind, a database point for later quotation at the moment of optimal discharge in witty wordgasm. The rare reading, by contrast, is more sign...
By no means an easy read, but a magnificent one, McCarthy's epic western is like a madman's cocktail of McMurtry's LONESOME DOVE and Conrad's HEART OF DARKNESS. De-romanticizes the Old West and with a merciless, horrifically brutal and existential eye, allows the reader a glimpse into an unspeakable...
I really tried to make it through this book. I'm a fan of the other McCarthy novels I've read and this one has great reviews and critical acclaim. As much as I wanted to like it, I found that it really dragged, and it was a struggle to get through because I just was not engrossed by the plot, nor di...
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