Thread: Have you ever found a book to be good, but too disturbing to continue?
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Old 05-01-2011, 08:32 AM   #66
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Originally Posted by somnolik View Post
"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
After being recommended by a friend this book accompanied me to a vacation in Greece. Boy, that was not what I had in mind when I had asked for "something nice for the beach". After about a hundred pages worth of travelling between cozy summer sun and hopeless postapocalyptic madness I had to give up as soon as
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the main characters discovered some half eaten but living people locked up in a basement as food supply.

The language is really concise and conjures up extremely vivid images - I totally admire the craftsmanship. But since my girlfriend had to cuddle me out of a semicatatonic state after I had dropped the book, I can't really recommend this book to overly sensitive people (like myself).

Edit: Reading this book is very much like watching a movie by Michael Haneke: It's good stuff but it makes you feel utterly miserable about everything.
The Road is one of those books I wish I could get into, but I just can't. For me, it wasn't the subject matter. It was the writing style. Something about never using quotation marks really gets to me, for some reason. For me, it made the story too hard to follow.
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