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Never finished the movie but if it's like the book the ending is definitely lame. McCarthy is like that tho. I've never liked the ending to any of his books.
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Never finished the movie but if it's like the book the ending is definitely lame. McCarthy is like that tho. I've never liked the ending to any of his books.
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I keep saying I'm going to read No Country for Old Men. But I loathed The Road so much that I just can't bring myself to do it. I mean if THAT was his claim to fame....I'm afraid I would be suicidal after another one of his books.
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Not sure who says it's his claim to fame, his more well known and well regarded books were before The Road although The Road is very well regarded. Oprah made it more popular than it otherwise would have been but it probably would have still won the Pulitzer.
No Country, All the Pretty Horses and Bood Meridian are arguably better and more famous.
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He lives there, wub.
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no country for old men was alright, but i didn't finish it. i'm okay with that. i love the movie, so that works for me just fine.
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i'm just going to assume you're talking about yourself again. i hope you don't mind.
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The only thing you missed was a small bit of info about Chigurh following the car wreck and even that was vague. Otherwise about as faithful as a movie can get.
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Like I talk about anybody else. pfft.
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that was pretty much my impression as well. there were a few things not in the movie like llewelyn at the hotel near the end (which is where i checked out), but yeah. it was pretty much all there.
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It's quite true....even when we're talking it's all about him. Sometimes I just walk away, do something else, come back and he never notices.
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Some nice slopes gonna come out of that.
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I think a consensus has formed that Blood Meridian was his best.
I'm a fan of The Road, but I can certainly appreciate why some people wouldn't care for it.
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The Road is a very well written story but it's so damn bleak I don't blame anyone for dropping it 5 pages in.
Blood Meridian for my money is his best although No Country is more enjoyable.
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It's quite true....even when we're talking it's all about him. Sometimes I just walk away, do something else, come back and he never notices.
...as I was saying...
People are freaking out. I sat next to a government climate guy today and he told me to clear the gutters and get ready because it's gonna pound us.
Here's the real problem: everyone whines that SoCal needs rain- and we do. Problem is that the ground is so dry and hard that ii just runs off and creates flash floods.
But yeah, I'm looking forward to some decent snow for the first time in a few years.
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Perhaps claim to fame was the wrong phrase to use. However, normally when you mention him The Road is the book people generally remember him by likely a combination of the movie and Oprah *shudder*.
So for those who are praising his other books (specifically Blood Meridian and Old Country), does he still use sparse punctuation and odd spacing? I think it was the combination of the bleak subject matter mixed with the odd style that really left a sour impression on me. As someone who reads legal documents all day and is looking out for imperfections (according to legal standards), it made it an even tougher read for me.
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It's quite true....even when we're talking it's all about him. Sometimes I just walk away, do something else, come back and he never notices.
It's like a reverse Archie & Edith Bunker.
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All of his books have the same punctuation. I read that it comes from his college days as an editor for his prof or something like that. It's easy to get used to.
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yeah, there were times when i read a sentence or two twice because i wasn't sure if it was dialogue or not when i first started the fucker. took me a bit to get used to it.
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I have a scar on the bridge of my nose from a wipeout back when I was a teenager and one of my skis came up and hit me square in the face breaking my goggles and cutting my shit wide open. Got taken down by the medics which was sorta cool because it was mostly my pride that was hurting but there was a lot of blood so they insisted.
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That is it....I absolutely refuse to get used to it. Too many other books on my agenda.
Besides, right now I'm helping Miss Ann find love.
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Her name is spelled wrong and she didn't invent that, she invented something that uses it.
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