/lit/ - Literature

>>22336352
I did career in STEM
but I seriously doubt I will read that book
here are 2 long winded paragraphs from review
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The first paragraph of “The Passenger” works as a microcosm of the problem. It paints a barren scene, a snowy field in which a young woman has hanged herself: “It had snowed lightly in the night and her frozen hair was gold and crystalline and her eyes were frozen cold and hard as stones.” Before you’ve even settled in, McCarthy has thrown “and” at you four times, a word that both splits and fuses. You hear Hemingway and the curious loudness of those supposedly clipped and stripped-down sentences. Something attention-seeking in the syntax. I read this novel when I was recovering from the infantilizing misery of a 15-millimeter kidney stone, and my 11-year-old daughter read parts of it to me because the pain pills made me want to barf when I tried to read, and at one point she put down the book and said, “Why does he say AND so much!”
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Much of “The Passenger” happens in a room, or a couple of rooms, where the same scene, with variations, runs on a loop. I suspect that many readers will resist or resent spending as much time there as we do. I came to find the goings-on sometimes captivating, but almost feel that I am covering for my abuser in confessing that. The young woman, Alicia, lies in bed. She’s schizophrenic, in the last year of her life. Her room is visited by a succession of vaudeville phantoms and spectral sideshow acts. Their spokesman, a kind of impresario, is the Thalidomide Kid, or the Kid for short.
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>>22336526
passenger is a rather nice read. two outstanding scenes, with the boat on the riverbed and the arrival at an ocean platform mid-storm

it fleshes out the sister character nicely as well.

>>22336542
>it fleshes out the sister character nicely as well.
I usually hate women in fiction, but I loved Alicia. Don't get why she gets so much hate.

>>22336352
this is a much better cover than what they put out

>>22336352
stem people can't read

>>22336352
>how brainlet thinks stem fags operate: the book
stem fags are brainlets in everything other than their autistic narrow field so it checks out

>>22336556
I'm still looking for decent editions of McCarthy's books so I can buy them

>>22336526
>my 11-year old daughter opinion is relevant
>I was was on painkillers
>I didn't even read the book
I hope whomever wrote that review didn't get paid

>>22336526
>here are 2 long winded paragraphs from review
I would also stick to the Russians if I could read them in the original.