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Originally Posted by Libby Cone
Am I the only serious reader who dislikes Cormac McCarthy? As I mentioned in another post, I found the beginning of "All the Pretty Horses" a snore job. I couldn't finish "Blood Meridian" because of the over-the-top descriptions of EVERYTHING, from sunsets and mountains to pus and vomit. Plus no inner life of any of the characters.
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Funny that this should come up in the same thread bashing Hemingway. I read
The Road, and as I finished, it dawned on me that it's simply a post-modernist re-hash of the same themes that were already (poorly, IMHO) explored in
The Old Man and the Sea.
Of course, I seem to have become extremely cynical and picky of late. The last book I truly enjoyed was over a year ago: Wendy Doniger's
The Woman Who Pretended To Be Who She Was.