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Posted on 4/15/11 at 1:50 pm to Leauxgan
I'm looking forward to it. One Hundred Years of Solitude is probably my second favorite book of all time with Brothers K being my first.
Posted on 4/15/11 at 2:50 pm to uway
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I had to stop at the tree of dead babies
you didn't get very far
Posted on 4/15/11 at 3:09 pm to Superior Pariah
That didn't disturb me as bad as the thought of Judge Holden running around naked in the desert with a young mongoloid.
Posted on 5/22/17 at 1:54 pm to TouchdownTN
I read it. It's a very good book, but it affected me. Not exactly nightmares, but I had very agitated sleep while I was reading it. I've never had a book do that to me before.
Posted on 5/22/17 at 1:58 pm to TouchdownTN
This book is amazing, but it can get repetitive at times, even boring, although the incredible prose and imagery makes up for it.
And for those of you who say it lacks a compelling story- I disagree completely. Judge Holden provides more than enough themes in himself.
And for those of you who say it lacks a compelling story- I disagree completely. Judge Holden provides more than enough themes in himself.
Posted on 5/22/17 at 2:32 pm to TouchdownTN
Blood Meridian is GOAT
Posted on 5/22/17 at 3:52 pm to TouchdownTN
I know its widely praised as Cormac's masterpiece, but it left me cold. It's nowhere near my favorite McCarthy novel. It's a poor entry point to his work anyway, as its so unlike the rest of his books.
Posted on 5/22/17 at 4:01 pm to TouchdownTN
I really like western movies / books so I read the first the couple of chapters. Didn't care for it and didn't finish it. It was a weird book.
Posted on 5/22/17 at 4:12 pm to TouchdownTN
Its a great book but you have to earn it, if passive reading is your thing forget it. There are many, many paragraphs you will have to read over and over again before you can move on.
At the end of the day its a book about the evil in men. I'm glad I read it but I doubt I would read it again.
At the end of the day its a book about the evil in men. I'm glad I read it but I doubt I would read it again.
Posted on 5/23/17 at 9:08 am to TouchdownTN
It's a great book but it can be difficult/challenging at times.
Posted on 5/23/17 at 3:12 pm to TouchdownTN
Speaking of McCarthy I just read no country for old men. Really great book only gripe is that the coen brothers did such a faithful adaptation of the movie that in my opinion there wasn't an appreciable difference between the book and the movie. So if you saw the movie you didn't get a lot of new content out of the book.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 7:51 am to drexyl
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So if you saw the movie you didn't get a lot of new content out of the book.
You do get Sheriff Bell's WWII backstory which is important. And the whole hitchhiker segment which was condensed into the woman by the pool. And I wish the Coens had left those in.
The movie really owes much more to Cormac McCarthy than the Coens. The best thing they did was to not fack it up.
Posted on 5/25/17 at 6:51 am to Tigris
The book was really great. I love the vernacular (?) of the South Texas characters. The hitchhiker, WW2...some of the sheriff's musings about changing generations....
I just read All the Pretty Horses...Did not like it quite as much but still very good.
I just read All the Pretty Horses...Did not like it quite as much but still very good.
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