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4.01 AVERAGE
4.01 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
I was so let down by this book. It felt disjointed and repetitive and the only parts I enjoyed were the descriptions of the scenery. The characters aren't just unlikable but they're also painfully similar to each other which ends up just being boring.
After reading "The Road" and hearing people talk about this book as though it's some work of art my hopes were so high. Unfortunately it didn't elicit any kind of response from me. The scenes were dark and disturbing but ultimately the same.
I could summarise it in a series of repeating bullet points:
-Main characters arrive at a destination
-Slaughter and blood bath
-Camp fire scene
-Beautiful descriptions of their travel to the next place
That's it. That's the whole book. And the formatting is a nightmare.
Maybe my expectations were set too high but I genuinely don't get the appeal of this.
After reading "The Road" and hearing people talk about this book as though it's some work of art my hopes were so high. Unfortunately it didn't elicit any kind of response from me. The scenes were dark and disturbing but ultimately the same.
I could summarise it in a series of repeating bullet points:
-Main characters arrive at a destination
-Slaughter and blood bath
-Camp fire scene
-Beautiful descriptions of their travel to the next place
That's it. That's the whole book. And the formatting is a nightmare.
Maybe my expectations were set too high but I genuinely don't get the appeal of this.
challenging
dark
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
AGHHH! FINALLY!
I don't think I could tell you, at least in detail, a single thing that happened in this book. It's all a bunch of... words... so many words, yet nothing happens! Knowing McCarthy had some sort of adversity to quotation marks, I listened to the audiobook... which essentially just became background noise in my quest just to slog through the damn thing. I was NOT sinking in all those hours just to DNF it!
I SHOULD have learned my lesson with The Road, but NOOOOO. I hear this book is SO disturbing, so I'm naturally drawn to it. The only thing I felt was disturbing about this book was how boring and nondescript it was. McCarthy had a knack for describing a half sentence action in two pages.
Now, I'm going to read chapter summaries. Hopefully, those will be more entertaining and will let me know what the actual fuck went on.
I don't think I could tell you, at least in detail, a single thing that happened in this book. It's all a bunch of... words... so many words, yet nothing happens! Knowing McCarthy had some sort of adversity to quotation marks, I listened to the audiobook... which essentially just became background noise in my quest just to slog through the damn thing. I was NOT sinking in all those hours just to DNF it!
I SHOULD have learned my lesson with The Road, but NOOOOO. I hear this book is SO disturbing, so I'm naturally drawn to it. The only thing I felt was disturbing about this book was how boring and nondescript it was. McCarthy had a knack for describing a half sentence action in two pages.
Now, I'm going to read chapter summaries. Hopefully, those will be more entertaining and will let me know what the actual fuck went on.
dark
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
let that goddamn bear boogie down
This is my THIRD and final attempt to get into this book. Gurl, please. Prose is unnecessarily complex and inaccessible (which blows my mind since the main character can’t even read ) Several people have told me they love this book, and the ratings are off the chart, yet I’m not convinced. I give this book an HLP rating (highfalutin literary pricks).
Content Warnings
You'll absolutely love this if you hate quotation marks and reasonable paragraph lengths.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Horrible and life changing. A true great American novel, but raw in the brutality of America’s truth. The worst things I’ve ever read, written more masterfully than I could imagine. The end of this novel will never leave me, nor will the feeling it left me with.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, War