After the first knife-fight scene it does not appear to be to my liking. Hard for me to get my head around the comparisons to the almighty Cormac. Some people want to believe anything. But McCarthy is god.
One of the most beautifully written modern books I've read; I can see how and why Rash's background is in poetry. The prose is gorgeous but it's never so florid I thought I'd choke on it; it has an... economy to it that suits the both the time period, and the unforgiving characters and setting. And ...
Wow,am I glad finishing this book. Reading it has been a burden that I couldn't let go. Each time I put it down I feel like I don't want to pick it up again, yet each time I have spare time this is the reading I reached for.
I read the first 90 pages of this book and couldn't continue. The writing is excellent, quite impressive, really. But when each chapter brought a new form of cruelty to animals, I had to stop. Bashing in a raccoon's skull with an axe...Starving a captive eagle to bend it to your will...Baiting a fi...
In the primeval woods of North Carolina, young timber baron, George Pemberton, brings his bride, Serena, to live with him in his kingdom. He had been busy enough already, fathering a child with a local girl and clear-cutting wide swaths of land. Serena quickly establishes herself as a power in her o...
This was another just "OK" read for me. I found the story to be interesting, in fact while reading it I felt it had a bit of a "There Will Be Blood" (movie) feel to it, but the two main characters were just so unlikeable that it really turned me off. I found most of the characters to be very one dim...
I don't quite get all the raves about this book. I know the main characters are supposed to be flat out nasty, but I had a hard time with the secondary characters, I neither cared nor could I easily follow who was who. I bailed around page 100.
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