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Old 12-31-2008, 12:54 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by Libby Cone View Post
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.
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.
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