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Spoiler Free Review
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“You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.”
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This book should come with a Prozac prescription.
People say, oh that one’s bleak. Sad, depressing. I’m sorry, but no. That’s not good enough. What’s a story you think of as bleak? Old Yeller came to mind for me so I’ll use that as a base. *Spoilers for Old Yeller I guess…imagine Old Yeller, but instead of a shotgun, the boy has a plastic butter knife.
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This is the first book I’ve read by McCarthy, so I’m not sure if he’ll always lead you down a spiral of angst and despair, but I can say his writing style is very unique. There are no chapters. The main characters are Boy and Man. He uses punctuation sporadically. There are paragraphs full of beautiful prose followed by several brief sentences, sometimes only one word. It’s highly effective. McCarthy brings his world to life in a way few authors can. It’s a world I didn’t want to be in, and yet I didn’t want to leave.
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This one’s gonna stick with me, but I don’t know that I’ll ever want to revisit it. To anyone that recommended this book to me, I’m going to ask you the same thing I asked my daughter after she had me watch one of the umpteen adaptations from a Nicholas Sparks book.
Why would you do that to me? What have I ever done to you?
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“You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.”
•
This book should come with a Prozac prescription.
People say, oh that one’s bleak. Sad, depressing. I’m sorry, but no. That’s not good enough. What’s a story you think of as bleak? Old Yeller came to mind for me so I’ll use that as a base. *Spoilers for Old Yeller I guess…imagine Old Yeller, but instead of a shotgun, the boy has a plastic butter knife.
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This is the first book I’ve read by McCarthy, so I’m not sure if he’ll always lead you down a spiral of angst and despair, but I can say his writing style is very unique. There are no chapters. The main characters are Boy and Man. He uses punctuation sporadically. There are paragraphs full of beautiful prose followed by several brief sentences, sometimes only one word. It’s highly effective. McCarthy brings his world to life in a way few authors can. It’s a world I didn’t want to be in, and yet I didn’t want to leave.
•
This one’s gonna stick with me, but I don’t know that I’ll ever want to revisit it. To anyone that recommended this book to me, I’m going to ask you the same thing I asked my daughter after she had me watch one of the umpteen adaptations from a Nicholas Sparks book.
Why would you do that to me? What have I ever done to you?