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Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Cormac McCarthy is pissing me off

I am almost finished with this thing called a book - The Road - by Cormac McCarthy. It has been making rounds among friends and I was gifted it twice over. It is a quick read.

The thing is just PISSING me off. I have rarely reacted so negatively to a book before. I honestly can't remember the last art piece that got such an angry reaction out of me.

Every time I open it I get so depressed, I start mumbling under my breath, pondering the gray lackluster experience we call Life.

I have no idea why people adore this thing. I have no idea why it grates me so much. I love it for making me so itchy and hateful, I abhor it for pushing me to such lows. There is no coming up for air. No chapters. Just a string of words that keep getting worse and worse. No hope from beginning to end. And yet with all of this .... I am still reading.

I have to finish it, just so I can have a cohesive argument for or against it. His writing style is wonderful and original. He has a way with phrasing things... yes. But the story itself is haunting me to the point of direness.

Those of you that have read it already... what do you think of it?

5 comments:

steevay said...
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Anonymous said...

I always wondered how Oprah has time to read all those books she recommends... lols, I wonder what she thought? Sorry, no thought provoking comments here...I can go get it though. The last book I read that ticked me off was quite thought provoking. "Mars & Venus on a Date" it started out great and then I got depressed and angry. Um, I am a woman. I am going to be a woman. Thank you very much. And you are a man and you will be a man. You don't go trying to change the breed of an animal, the same animal you chose to live with. You chose it because it suited you or should have... but, I digress...

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