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- Bullitt
Just finished reading this, what a fucking book. Best thing I've ever read. Highly recommend this.
Written by Cormac McCarthy who penned No Country For Old Men.
- roundabout0
I love the film, No Country For Old Men. Interesting
- Nairn0
More twatty than a bag of dungarees
- kelpie0
yeah I love this book too, some of the best passages of writing I've ever read
- ItalianStallion0
I preferred "In The country of last things" by Paul Auster.
- There is a film in the making based on the novel.Ruffian
- Not_Just_Another0
I agree, one of the best I've read. Did you know they're making a film from it?
www.imdb.com/title/tt0898367/- I'm just glad Viggo Mortensen is in it. Hopefully he wins an award this time.Jaline
- rough0
Great book! Hope they don't fuck up the movie!
Reading his other book at the mo, Blood Meridian
- JerseyRaindog0
I read this book while camping. In the cold and the wet in the middle of nowhere. With a torch slowly draining my sole battery. Must find food...
- hahaNot_Just_Another
- I thought you meant "soul" battery.Jaline
- kelpie0
I recommended this book to a friend of mine, who runs a bookshop, with a small boy about the same age as the boy character. She could only get ab out a third of the way through before she had to put it down in tears and go through to the boy's room and curl up in bed with him.
She wrote me an email saying how she could see how brilliant it was and why I loved it but that it was just too much for her due to her own kid, made her think too much. I took that as about the most glowing review possible.
A couple of months later she wrote back ands said she'd picked it up again and not put it down till she'd finished and agreed with me that it was as good as I'd said. result.
- Khurram0
it is something special.
I love McCarthy because of the essential bleak nihilism he confronts you with. He uses violence as an everyday to demonstrate the worthlessness of life - or rather, to force you to find your own worth of human life.
He throws slims slivers of "meaning" of existence at you, which you grab onto desperately - a small incadescent torch away in the distant, and constantly challenges you to come to terms with how you make life matter.
It's just a shame that i only realised what he was about after No Country. I mean, my whole life i thought he was some pop Airport novelist like Stephen King or John Grisham or something... how wrong i was.
- I thought the same of the last Rambo movie.Nairn
- I don't think you did. I think that's an utterly faceatious comment, Nairn.Khurram
- You might be onto something there. Or perhaps my standards are a lot lower than you would ever imagine.Nairn
- I think Nairn should EAT A FUCKING DICK, what do you think Kuz?kelpie
- haha. Yeah. Eat a big fat dick Nairn! ;PKhurram
- canuck0
I wouldn't say one of the best, but it is good. I noticed they have pushed the release date back for the movie.
- kelpie0
^well put.
his prose is awesome at times, I was dog earing pages (which I never do, even though I'm a pure snobby word hoarder) by about page 30 because there are single sentences in there which are just knock-you-on-your-arse beautiful. Its like blank verse at times, so distilled.
- canuck0
This was the first book I had read by him, I wasn't expecting it to be so graphic.... I thank him and hate him at the same time; that house that had all the half eaten people in it freaked the shit out of me, and left me uneasy for quite a period.
- Khurram0
it's the minimalism, sparcity written in language form. The matter of fact prose that seems to dull your emotions but is frightening when he does it and melancholic when you see how neutral the world of facts is. They stand out because they don't induce you to feel any particular way.
He reminds me of Hemingway in that regard, but without the scattershot streams of consciousness. More deliberate. It's like, you say it simply and it becomes beautiful, no matter what.
- Even the violence, said so simply and matter of factly. Like "is this beautiful?? poetic even??"Khurram
- the simplicity is deceptive though the rhythm and structure of his prose is stripped back and perfect.kelpie
- he's like the anti-proustkelpie
- yes, because it's so VISUAL. Cinematic even.Khurram
- More deliberate than Hemingway? Unpossible!TheBlueOne
- Nairn0
He lost me at "Like pilgrims in a fable swallowed up and lost among the inward parts of some granitic beast" and every other self-indulgent metaphor he spewed forth like ... ha.. you can't catch me in your onanistic comparison trap, McCarthy - *I* have a sense of shame, see?
- Khurram0
^
I can see how you could be annoyed by him if you think he's "just trying to be clever".But that crticism i only reserve for those who ultimately have no substance. Those with substance, i'm GLAD they're trying to be clever/inventive.
- Jaline0
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- Nairn0
Ach't, I'm just joshing - I don't even know how to read.
- kerraaang0
I loved it.
Great descriptive images, scenery, and wavering of real/internal thoughts/memories. Even the structure translated as barren. It was expressive, yet concise.
Im taking recommendations for other post-apocalyptic novels if you have any. I want to prepare for the coming depression and end times.
- waterhouse0
Best book I've ever read. I seriously almost cried at the end.