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Originally Posted by Penforhire
Most recently, Cormac McCarthy's The Road was tough to finish. Yes, his prose is lyrical and magical. That man can write! But two things made this a struggle, the unrelenting darkness of his post-apocalyptic vision (masterful in its way but such a downer!) and his unique punctuation.
Some people consider it genius when he omits quotation marks in dialogue. I say it adds a distraction. Superficially it makes the text look clean and sparse but I am so used to convention that it hinders rather than helps. It was not quite as distracting to me in No Country for Old Men. I was not bothered by his use of imaginary words because it usually evoked a sense of poetry.
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I loved
The Road but it was damn awful depressing through much of it. The ending was not what I had expected though.