What are your thoughts on this novel?

It's about a road. Written by a guy named Cormac, if I remember correctly.

its pretty dull

>>9020661
Yuh huh
>>9020668
Heartbreaking, haunting and emotionally shattering you mean?

I enjoyed it. Especially page 22. But page 40 was a total shocker.

We don't speak about page 89.5 though.

>>9020658
I cried in public while reading it.
that's all I have to say about that.

>corncob tortilla yecarthy's oprah book
it's trash

>>9020767
pretty much this.

Probably one of the greatest works of post-apocalyptic fiction from a literary standpoint but definitely McCarthy at his weakest.

Something tells me he was even aware of this but with his original drafts of the work he knew he could crank out something that is topically accessible to a broad audience and sensationalize it through a media campaign (Oprah) just to score some cash. Which he definitely did and I don't blame him.

I'd be annoyed if throughout my career my contemporaries were getting rich and were acclaimed off of sensationalized garbage that just got churned up and commercialized through Hollywood. But I think he's been trying to milk the system since NCFOM and might continue with his upcoming novel, especially considering hes writing a female lead character, pretty much the first time hes written a female in general.

Any McCarthy other than BM is just BM (((Bowel Movement)))

McCarthy at his most accessible, and also by far his most minimalistic prose. It makes for some beautiful, very bleak reading:

At a crossroads a ground set with dolmen stones where the spoken bones of oracles lay moldering... What will you say? A living man spoke these lines? He sharpened a quill with his small pen knife to scribe these things in sloe or lampblack? At some reckonable and entabled moment? He is coming to steal my eyes. To seal my mouth with dirt.

>>9020658
I liked the movie better tbqhf

>>9020736
Fag

>>9020767
kys

>>9020658
I cried. Very good. Definitely behind BM and CoG though.

Heard it won the Pulitzer Prize.

Honestly I thought it was pretty bland. It was an interesting premise that didn't go anywhere or really develop at all. A lot of the dialogue felt campy, like I was reading a cheesy movie script that was trying too hard to be emotional. For a book that revolved entirely around the relationship between two characters, they sure were one-dimensional.

>>9022385
It felt better in the movie. The bleakness shines through

>>9020658
i'm reading it for my course later this semester, looks promising

>>9022280
fight me

>>9022385
Agree with this.

I'm really surprised anybody could cry from reading this, I thought it was pretty emotionally unconvincing.

Reallyade me wonder why no one hooked up some form of bicycle to some UV lights or some shit and grew potatoes underground. Or why they didn't filter water. Or why they didn't grow mushrooms.

>>9020658
I like the way he makes the main characters just as faceless and grey as the landscape. It really adds to the feeling that these people have no history. Also, the fact that they are traveling down a road without really reaching a destination sort of outlines the hopelessness of their situation. It has an element of the cliche to it but that's mainly due to the genera.

>>9022540
It's not that kind of story.

>>9020658
read it in a small cell as a young convict in a child's prison. i recall being surprised that from the bleak and dull moments arose yet more bleakness, a bunch of cannibals, and a mattress.

i liked vonnegut and heinlein much much more, needless to say. whether or not that is a valid criticism of the book is irrelevant, since every fucking person sucks this book's dick to no end.

too much gay shit

>>9020658
The Long Walk was better.

>>9022333
This. Maybe the best way to get into McCarthy. At least it's the way I did and I've been in love with him ever since.

>>9022934
Yeah this isn't the Martian.

>>9022946
What were you convicted for?

>>9023179
aggravated battery on a police officer.