How accurate is this novel in how it depicts the American/Mexican

>>2575265
I could never get into this author, he writes like a complete retard. And yes his books are absurdly over the top.

>>2575277
How far along are you on your fifth reading of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban?

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>>2575287
Does anyone else think Harry Potter has been one of the dullest franchises in the history of movie franchises? Each episode following the boy wizard and his pals from Hogwarts Academy as they fight assorted villains has been indistinguishable from the others. Aside from the gloomy imagery, the series’ only consistency has been its lack of excitement and ineffective use of special effects, all to make magic unmagical, to make action seem inert.

Perhaps the die was cast when Rowling vetoed the idea of Spielberg directing the series; she made sure the series would never be mistaken for a work of art that meant anything to anybody?just ridiculously profitable cross-promotion for her books. The Harry Potter series might be anti-Christian (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-James Bond series in its refusal of wonder, beauty and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.

>a-at least the books were good though r-right
"No!"
The writing is dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs."

I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing. Later I read a lavish, loving review of Harry Potter by the same Stephen King. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading Harry Potter at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Stephen King." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "Harry Potter" you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King.

>>2575319
Is the joke of this list that every tier has a shit joke entry?

What a shit fucking list.

>>2575265
I mean, the Glanton Gang was real and did get hired by the Mexican government to fight Apaches then go rogue and start slaughtering Mexicans, then took over a Fort and robbed people crossing the Colorado until the Yuma massacred them.
Judge Holden was also a real person who roade with the gang.
The novel is over the top with the biblical, apocalyptic stuff but it's very much based on true events.

>>2575277
> being this plebian
McCarthy's formatting is as much a part of the storytelling as the words on the page.

>>2575408
Yeah it's shitty stale bait

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Making the mother of all omelets Kid. Can't worry about every little egg.

>>2576618
It's good bait except for the list
>>2575408
>books by Tolkien is a shit entry
kys