the movie is worse its like cannibalistic torture porn where still nothing happens except people each eachother and nothing is explained nor any story told worth telling
see i hated no country, it's probably my least favorite cohen bros movie of all time
anyway though i'm just repeating gossip, i have no knowledge of mccarthy outside of those two books neither of which i've read, but i've heard people speaking of him as being sexist and a jerk
it's not depressing at all. Well, let me rephrase that. The content is not depressing. The book is depressing because you realize you just wasted hours of your life on a book without a single redeeming facet. It tries so hard to be depressing that it's almost comical, like those Warhammer 40k posters with THRONES OF SKULLS EVERYWHERE. it's all GRIMDARK and the author describes things as "ashy" about 10000000 times.
SF_D is telling me they all love it, which i think only proves my point
Lonnnng comment. Part one.littleshebearOctober 6 2010, 16:57:10 UTC
I haven't read any reviews or criticism for it, so I have no idea what other people are saying about it, this is just what I took from it. Also, I should point out that I've only read it the once and I tore through it very quickly
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Lonnnng comment. Part two.littleshebearOctober 6 2010, 16:57:45 UTC
As for stuff not happening or lack of plot, I didn't really mind that. I don't think being on the verge of extinction would be terribly exciting, I think it would be a whole lot of depressing drudgery. You wouldn't think about a whole lot else other than where your next meal is coming from. I think I preferred that more realistic take than the two of them having crazy adventures. To be honest, if he'd had the Boy and Father doing badass things and finding out what caused the apocalypse etc etc, I probably would have thrown the book at the wall. That's not what it's about, it's about how people would survive and what sacrifices or lines they'd cross in order to do that, and would they be justified in doing that? Also, when you go through pages and pages of monotonous wandering (Walk here, find food, walk here, rest, walk here, find food etc), when something horrible does happen, it's all the more shocking. The protagonists get lulled into a false sense of security and so does the reader.
I think that covers it. Like I said, I can see
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its like cannibalistic torture porn where still nothing happens except people each eachother and nothing is explained nor any story told worth telling
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SO BLEAK AND HOPELESS
LIKE, PEOPLE ARE EATING PEOPLE, MAN, HOW EDGY AND SHOCKING AND ORIGINAL IS THAT
IT'S A SYMBOL OF LIKE, IDK, SOME DEEP SHIT OR SOMETHING, JUST THINK ABOUT IT
~*~CARRYING THE FIRE~*~
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i mean i know it's depressing but i like post-apocalyptic stuff
but i will trust what i've read here and just avoid
plus i hear the author is a real misogynistic asshole
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Really? That makes me sad. No Country for Old Men was so damn good.
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anyway though i'm just repeating gossip, i have no knowledge of mccarthy outside of those two books neither of which i've read, but i've heard people speaking of him as being sexist and a jerk
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SF_D is telling me they all love it, which i think only proves my point
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all i've gotten so far is really bad explanations about how it's like a poem or something
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I think that covers it. Like I said, I can see ( ... )
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