If I remember correctly, the book uses no quotation marks and no names (ETA: Oh yes, and no punctuation O_O). I think I got used to the style fairly quickly, but the spareness of it, combined with the bleak setting and atmosphere, just helped drag me down even more.
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Me luvs my Cormac McCarthy but I HATED this book with a passion :O I could not get into at all, exactly for stated reasons above. He such a stylist normally but the spareness of his language, those short sentences annoyed the hell out of me in this case. And I love it in other books. It was not really the story itself, just the how it was told. Now The Border Trilogy is a different matter altogether, that´s true beauty. But glad you liked it. :o)
I always feel vaguely guilty when I haven't read anything by important authors, but I feel worse for never having read anything by him because he's from just down the road.
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