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Is anyone reading this? It's on Oprah's book club. It is wonderfully written but very depressing. It's also very dark.
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I liked how he never used the man or boy's name. It's like they forgot their names.
I also recommend McCarthy's Blood Meridian, which is a much different kind of book but just as haunting and brutal.
This. I haven't read The Road yet (going to buy it soon), but Blood Meridian a monstrous trip to the animalistic, godless heart of mankind without laws. It could be called a western, but it's depiction of the old west is alien and chilling. It could be a fantasy for the places it describes and the people and what they do.
3) Since there were no chapters and only scene breaks, it made it very difficult to find a logical stopping point.
I thought about reading it three or four times, but always decided it just wasn't the right time to try another McCarthy book. I start out really enjoying his books, then about half-way through have a hard time wanting to finish them. I also still have something of a "bad taste in my mouth" from No Country for Old Men.
Just an opinion.