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There's no originality in saying there's a lyric power to this story. Its dark beauty is entirely born of its chilling evocation of an apocalyptic landscape, in which humanity is reduced to a doomed scrabble for daily survival. So in some ways, it's a difficult book to read. It's one you read with a knot in your chest and put aside almost gratefully. But it's so much more than a depressing glance into a possible future. McCarthy's sparse prose is trimmed down to bare bones, in a reflection of th
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While well-written, this book is so depressing and so hopeless that I can't rate it any higher. The story just goes on and on, deeper and deeper into more despair.
I can definitely appreciate a story about the love of a father for his son, but I need some light at the end of the tunnel.
Even though the boy finds a family at the end, there's really no joy in it because the world is still ending. It's like falling into a bottomless black pit, then hitting a ledge where you're able to cling for a few ...more
I can definitely appreciate a story about the love of a father for his son, but I need some light at the end of the tunnel.
Even though the boy finds a family at the end, there's really no joy in it because the world is still ending. It's like falling into a bottomless black pit, then hitting a ledge where you're able to cling for a few ...more
This book just really failed to move me. I understood his terse style of writing and why he chose that style, but I found something lacking in this book and failed to bond with the characters I think. I was struck by the feeling that there was no need for them to go on, and I began just wishing they would die. I had seen the movie so I knew what was going to happen , but all the same, I thought that I would find more substance in the book, and that was not the case. Too bad.
The way every writer dreams of being able to write prose.
Not recommended for people who enjoy joy.
Dark and moving. A story I've avoided for years because I knew it would haunt me.
Maybe I'm not sophisticated enough to appreciate the prose because for me that part of it only made me zone out and have to reread for lack of understanding.
Even so, by the end I was in tears and any book that can evoke that kind of emotion from me deserves nothing less than 4 stars. ...more
Maybe I'm not sophisticated enough to appreciate the prose because for me that part of it only made me zone out and have to reread for lack of understanding.
Even so, by the end I was in tears and any book that can evoke that kind of emotion from me deserves nothing less than 4 stars. ...more
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