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  • 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

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