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2365870 No.2365870 [Reply] [Original]

Worth reading ?

>> No.2365871

yes

>> No.2365872

no

>> No.2365873

maybe

>> No.2365874

maybe so

>> No.2365875

/thread

>> No.2365876

>>2365871

What makes it so good ?

>> No.2365887

>>2365876

I like how it's all dark and post-apocalyptic and it's cool. I wish they made a video game of this.

>> No.2365888

It's okay.

>> No.2365890

>>2365887

Why wait for a video game when you can walk Skid Row at night for free ?

>> No.2365893

>>2365876

Just read the fucking thing (or don't, I don't give a fuck) and then come back when you have an opinion on it. In the time you've taken with this faggot-riddled thread you could have read a tenth of the book. It's not long.

>> No.2366058

Not worth paying for but you could do worse.

>> No.2366069

I liked it.

>> No.2366127

Yes it good, its not exactly a happy read though. I did like how he represented the apocalypse as without the rose tinted speccs, as rather sad and hopeless. Everthing is dead, cold and bleak.

>> No.2366220

>>2365870
Worth reading, it's pretty boring though. Don't expect speech marks either.

>> No.2366424

>>2366220
>Don't expect speech marks either.

I'm not English but I've read my last 20 books in English. This is one of the worst book I've read because it's grammatically confusing. Nonetheless, after 50 pages I became accustomed to its style.

About the book itself, I found it good but it's not a masterpiece. Not sure why it's one of the books I see often on /lit/.

>> No.2366452

>>2365876

It's good because it portrays genuine human interaction in the face of unimaginable, insurmountable duress. It's not a self-indulgent romp through the pseudo intellectual New York based author's broad knowledge of various meaningless tracts of information. It's about our world, what holds it together, what lies just past the point when society founders, what a person will do to survive, and how ultimately civility can exist in the face of all consuming barbarism, even if the state of civility is the choice to protect what remains of a child's innocence.

It's a book which will have you smiling at the subtleties which litter each and every interaction between the characters, which will have you terrified at the thought that some errant sound might expose the protagonists and leave them at the mercy of the cannibals. It's a book which makes you consider that accruing a new rag is a small victory, if it restricts but a modicum of heat against your body in the cold night.

This is a fantastic book, and any of these cunt s/lits/ who say otherwise should shut up and continue sucking on Safran Foer's shriveled cock.

>> No.2366453

>>2366424

>Now a Major Motion Picture

>> No.2366454

>>2365870
It's okay. Has nothing on Suttree or Blood Meridian. I fear he'll never reach those heights again.

>> No.2366491

>>2366454

He will never top blood meridian.

>> No.2366516

Good writer gone off his game. He's getting too old and it shows here. Think late career Updike. Bad like that.

I guess you could argue there's good imagery- but you can get all of that and more in his earlier work.

>> No.2366562

What thinkst thou of The Passenger?

> female protagonist
> female
> Cormac McCarthy

Also gonna be his longest novel yet.

>> No.2366713

This is an excellent book.

reminded me of the old man and the sea