Posted: 6/14/2011 11:06:47 AM EDT
Anyone read this yet? No Country was a really good, easy read. I have few unexpected days off of my feet and picked it up. Not very far into it yet, but it's not what I would call an easy read. I hope it picks up or I'm going to wait for the 2015 movie release .
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It is a great book, but extremely difficult to read. I had read many passages twice to make sure I understood. I need to read the whole thing again. This. A very dense read but haunting like a beautiful yet horrific dream. Agreed. The long passage where he describes the natives riding in is one of the most amazing things I've ever read. The picture he paints is incredible. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: It is a great book, but extremely difficult to read. I had read many passages twice to make sure I understood. I need to read the whole thing again. This. A very dense read but haunting like a beautiful yet horrific dream. Agreed. The long passage where he describes the natives riding in is one of the most amazing things I've ever read. The picture he paints is incredible. McCarthy is a genuis. |
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I read The Road. Once you get used to his particular writing style, I was fascinated by it. Immediately went out and picked up Blood Meridian and No Country.
I got about halfway through Blood and gave up on it. I just didn't give two shits about the protagonist. I still plan on reading No Country, loved the movie. |
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Quoted: Quoted: It is a great book, but extremely difficult to read. I had read many passages twice to make sure I understood. I need to read the whole thing again. This. A very dense read but haunting like a beautiful yet horrific dream. Good deal, I'll keep on reading. Quoted: I read The Road. Once you get used to his particular writing style, I was fascinated by it. Immediately went out and picked up Blood Meridian and No Country. I got about halfway through Blood and gave up on it. I just didn't give two shits about the protagonist. I still plan on reading No Country, loved the movie. No Country is much easier and there is good amount of detail in the book that the movie doesn't have room for. Definitely a good read. |
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I read The Road. Once you get used to his particular writing style, I was fascinated by it. Immediately went out and picked up Blood Meridian and No Country. I got about halfway through Blood and gave up on it. I just didn't give two shits about the protagonist. That's the approach to take in any McCarthy novel. Protagonists in his books usually don't have good ends. |
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They ate and moved on, leaving the fire on the ground behind them, and as they rode into the mountains this fire seemed to become altered of its location, now here, now there, drawing away, or shifting unaccountably along the flank of their movement. Like some ignis fatuus belated upon the road behind them which all could see and of which none spoke. For this will to decieve that is in things luminous may manifest itself likewise in retrospect and so by sleight of some fixed part of a journey already accomplished may also post men to fraudulent destinies.
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I keep that book on my nightstand and will read a chapter or too before dropping off to sleep. Reliving the intense imagery.
Judge Holden is one of the most interesting characters in literature. personally I think he is either Satan's only son or Ares. The book is set in the 1840's, do you think people were more ruthless back then or they have always been the same? In CM's borderland trilogy, the people seem just as ruthless, even though it takes place a century later. |