well I read it in school and I'm...

never mind.

frankj1 wrote:

Great book!

I did read it in high school, but there's no way any 16 year old can grasp the pathos. I got so much more out of re-reading it last year.

I'm now re- reading Two Years Before the Mast for its description of 1830s California.

drnos wrote:

Just finished "No Country For Old Men".......in a day......great read.
Kinda glad I saw the movie first..........the other way around?.....I woulda been bummed about the movie.

KingoftheCove wrote:

The scope of McCarthy's novels is beyond anything you can capture on film. And he continues to evolve. His early stuff is incredible - Child of God, The Orchard Keeper, Blood Meridian, Suttree....

riverdog wrote:

Agreed. Some of the greatest characters ever - Ma Joad, Tom Joad, the preacher.......

riverdog wrote:

Just started Blood Meridian.............good so far........still getting used to his style of prose, and the unorthodox manner in which he chooses to punctuate dialog........or more accurately, doesn't punctuate dialog.

KingoftheCove wrote:

Heheheh, try Peter Matthiessen's "Far Tortuga" if you want to forego punctuation.🇨🇮

riverdog wrote:

or Gabriel Garcia Marquez's The Autumn of the Patriarch. Commas, but not may periods, and I don't recall one paragraph break.

frankj1 wrote:

or Gabriel Garcia Marquez's The Autumn of the Patriarch. Commas, but not may periods, and I don't recall one paragraph break.

frankj1 wrote:

I may give it a shot. I'll give it 75 pages.🍺

riverdog wrote:

unless you love a stream of consciousness streaming from an insane mind.

frankj1 wrote:

The only thing of his I've read is 'Hundred Years' and enjoyed that. Stream of consciousness from an insane mind... I still re and re-read Dylan Thomas poetry and short fiction.🇨🇮

riverdog wrote:

if you read 100 years and liked it, go for Love in the Time . At least you won't have to try to keep a few generations of families straight...just 51 years of one guy in love.

I don't really read much these days, at least not much literature, and was never a "best seller list" reader. The last few years I've read about Cod, the Dust Bowl, and the Boston Molasses Flood...but for years it was about the author's sentence construction and detail, and Marquez just blew my mind. No one ever walked up a staircase, they ascended the structure while the intoxicating aroma of the almond trees competed with the dank mustiness off the bogs that rode in with the southeasterly breezes that announced April in a way that...........

and all the character was doing was going to his bedroom!

too tedious for anyone other than word freaks.

frankj1 wrote: