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by Joe Penhall
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moving under skies
moving under skies rated it 10 years ago
I really adore some of McCarthy's sentences, and I was really excited in the first few pages when I had to pause to look up three words, but by the end of this book I was hurrying to be done--not because I was enthralled (though I suppose I was, in a way) but because I was having nightmares about po...
Brain Gourmet
Brain Gourmet rated it 10 years ago
I don’t care about the plot if I don’t like the writing. In the case of this book, I quickly figured out that the writing style was not my cup of tea so I tried to make the best of the rest. Well, I failed miserably. And, I mean, I really feel like there is something I am missing here, something tha...
And now for something completely wordy...
"Good­ness will find the lit­tle boy. It al­ways has. It will again." Ha, ha, ha! McCarthy may be as monotonous as hell, but every once in a while he winks out an hilarious zinger... It was *meant* to be LOL funny, right? (But I think I'll cry if I find the above in the quotes database.) Alas, as ri...
Tami
Tami rated it 11 years ago
It had an eerie beauty and at the same time where depressing sadness to it. It had an atmosphere pending between the stark reality of post-apocalypse without any grace or goodness and the also stark and pure love between father and son. The prose was also pure and unadorned.
Bark at the Ghouls
Bark at the Ghouls rated it 11 years ago
This story is about a man and his boy struggling for survival in a world destroyed by some sort of cataclysmic event. I’ve read a few reviews of this book and the movie version (which I have not seen) and knew what I was getting into but I have to admit that I wasn’t quite prepared for the absolute ...
And now for something completely wordy...
"Good­ness will find the lit­tle boy. It al­ways has. It will again." Ha, ha, ha! McCarthy may be as monotonous as hell, but every once in a while he winks out an hilarious zinger... It was *meant* to be LOL funny, right? (But I think I'll cry if I find the above in the quotes database.) Alas, as ri...
And now for something completely wordy...
"Good­ness will find the lit­tle boy. It al­ways has. It will again." Ha, ha, ha! McCarthy may be as monotonous as hell, but every once in a while he winks out an hilarious zinger... It was *meant* to be LOL funny, right? (But I think I'll cry if I find the above in the quotes database.) Alas, as ri...
DemonessTenebrae
DemonessTenebrae rated it 11 years ago
Dark, gloomy, depressive post-apocalyptic novel by Cormac McCarthy...Desolate land swept in the fiery storms... ashes falling from the grey skies... no wildlife... no plants... billions of people are gone.... what's left is either perverted and insane or at the end of its strength...Fallen burned ci...
Fangirls Ahead!
Fangirls Ahead! rated it 11 years ago
I can see why people can say it's amazing; I really can. It's just not for me.
idamus
idamus rated it 11 years ago
Boring, and really annoying to read
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