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Damn this book...I can't say that I'm enjoying it. Because I'm not. However, I am very interested. Whenever I read a book, I try and place myself in the head of the author and figure out why they write what they write. What in God's name possessed McCarthy to write a book like this? This is very disturbing because you realize this could be earth in the future. And I feel for the boy and his Dad. They are caught between life and death within the thinnest of margins. I'm not quite finished with th
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Aug 30, 2008
Sunflower
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it was amazing
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Warning: this book stays with you after you have finished it. I wanted to throw out a pair of old shoes today, and found I couldn't do it......just in case. I also found myself idly wondering if I really would be one of the "good guys" if I found myself in the circumstances of this novel.
I liked the cover blurb which said "the first great masterpiece of the globally warmed generation". That's what sold it to me and I wasn't disappointed.(somehow I missed all the hype about the Pulitzer on this ...more
I liked the cover blurb which said "the first great masterpiece of the globally warmed generation". That's what sold it to me and I wasn't disappointed.(somehow I missed all the hype about the Pulitzer on this ...more
So I am kind of torn w/ how many stars I want to give this...If there were 1/2 stars I guess I would give it 3 1/2. I did enjoy it but I think I had expected to like it more than I actually did. Many people have raved about how good it is so I bumped it up on my list (that and the fact that the movie is supposed to be coming out...eventually.) I liked the relationship between the father and the son and it was sad but I feel like for me it was missing something. I didn't mind that there weren't a
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This is one of the most depressing books that I've read. Very little optimism; very little hope for the future -- just bleak post-apocolyptic scenes one after another. Like Saramango's Blindness, there are no names and very little punctuation used. This serves to both distance the reader and make the experiences described seem somehow beyond personalization. Definitely recommended, but only for those willing to tolerate the unending bleakness.
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This book was really intense. I felt like I couldn't focus on anything else until I knew how it ended. I'm torn on my rating-it's hard to give five stars to something that was so harrowing but on the other hand, it was really well done.
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Well written, but sad. I was also a little confused for most of it, but didn't want to put it down.
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the best from Cormac.
poetic and fearful
terrifying and gripping
poetic and fearful
terrifying and gripping
Feb 01, 2008
Jennifer
marked it as to-read
Mar 17, 2008
Katie
marked it as to-read
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May 03, 2008
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