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Is this the best novel of the past 50 years?

>> No.14167865
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>>14167818
no

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>>14167818
no

>> No.14167880

>>14167818
What's so good about it? I tried reading it once and it was just some retard walking around the prairie

>> No.14167906

>>14167880
Such are we all in this vale of tears

>> No.14167937

Pretentious writing style. Don't know how I finished it.

>> No.14167993

>>14167937
I don't understand what people say this

>> No.14168029

>>14167865
based

>>14167873
cringe

>> No.14168052

It's not even the best novel by Cormac McCarthy in the past 50 years.

>> No.14168183

>>14167818
yes

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>>14167818
No

>> No.14168371

It’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, by far.

>> No.14168415

>>14168029
cringe

>> No.14168462

>>14168371
>of the past 50 years
>"One Hundred Years of Solitude is a landmark 1967 novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez"
>2019-50=???????

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>>14167818
no I said no I won't No.

>> No.14168478

>>14168473
wait nm I thought it said 100 years

>> No.14169115

I liked it but I would have enjoyed it a million times more had there not been page after page describing the fucking desert.

>> No.14169747

>>14167818
Yes.

>> No.14169799

I'm reading it now, the Indians just attacked the kid and the crew. I'm not a big fiction reader but he really writes war and carnage well, damn savages.

>A legion of horribles, hundreds in number, half naked or clad in costumes attic or biblical or wardrobed out of a fevered dream with the skins of animals and silk finery and pieces of uniform still tracked with the blood of prior owners, coats of slain dragoons, frogged and braided cavalry jackets, one in a stovepipe hat and one with an umbrella and one in white stockings and a bloodstained weddingveil and some in headgear of cranefeathers or rawhide helmets that bore the horns of bull or buffalo and one in a pigeontailed coat worn backwards and otherwise naked and one in the armor of a Spanish conquistador, the breastplate and pauldrons deeply dented with old blows of mace or sabre done in another country by men whose very bones were dust and many with their braids spliced up with the hair of other beasts until they trailed upon the ground and their horses' ears and tails worked with bits of brightly colored cloth and one whose horse's whole head was painted crimson red and all the horsemen's faces gaudy and grotesque with daubings like a company of mounted clowns, death hilarious, all howling in a barbarous tongue and riding down upon them like a horde from a hell more horrible yet than the brimstone land of Christian reckoning, screeching and yammering and clothed in smoke like those vaporous beings in regions beyond right knowing where the eye wanders and the lip jerks and drools. Oh my god, said the sergeant.

>> No.14169802

>>14169115
>not loving the desert
City rat?

>> No.14169863

>>14168052
I liked Blood Meridian but Suttree is better