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Don't get me wrong. I enjoyed it. But it was...different. I'm gonna look for more from this dude. God forbid my folks see my dick. |
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05-14-2015, 08:12 PM | #2239 | |
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05-14-2015, 08:16 PM | #2240 | |
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05-14-2015, 08:26 PM | #2241 | |
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Blood Meridian if you want to dive into the deep end. The Road, imo, really isn't indicative of the rest of his work. |
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05-14-2015, 09:00 PM | #2242 | ||
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So I can't speak to NC's 'off the deep end' remark, except it really is a descent into a hellscape. Basically deeper and deeper doo-doo in the lawless old west. Think if Apocalypse Now was set in the Mexico territories. But it stuck with me and I enjoyed it a lot. And I agree, The Road is a much more sparse, spare, dire work. If I were starting new, I'd warm up with Elmore Leonard shorts, then move to AtPH, then BM, then The Road from Cormac. BEP's recommendation of McCourt will seem like a fellow traveller to McCarthy, McMurtry and Leonard, though he has a vastly different, autobiographical, story to tell. Last edited by Baby Lee; 05-14-2015 at 09:33 PM.. |
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05-14-2015, 09:22 PM | #2243 |
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I'm reading the Bosch series by Michael Connolly. Hollywood detective. Really well written, interesting characters, interesting cases, engaging back story from book to book as the series progresses.
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05-14-2015, 09:35 PM | #2244 | |
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Choke--protagonist is a sex addict that pays for his mother's nursing home by choking on food at prestigious restaurants and developing a parasitic relationship with those who save him. Fight Club. I'm sure you're familiar with it. The book is better than the film, save the ending, which is superior in celluloid. Invisible Monsters: former fashion model is disfigured by a gunshot wound to the face. And that's the most normal thing that happens. Damned. 13 year old girl allegedly dies of a marijuana overdose, is sent to Hell, and is shoehorned into a Breakfast Club-esque clique while paying off her penance for her sins--working as a telemarketer. |
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05-14-2015, 09:35 PM | #2245 | |
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05-14-2015, 09:36 PM | #2246 | |
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So Gertrude Stein or Shakespeare isn't up your alley. It's like reading Shakespeare. I was being tongue-n'cheek with the Jane Austen rec though. Chick books. |
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05-14-2015, 09:37 PM | #2247 |
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05-14-2015, 09:38 PM | #2249 |
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05-14-2015, 09:49 PM | #2250 | |
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Reminiscent of reading the dirty jokes in the Playboys or the Penthouse letters you and your buddies hid up in the tree house when you were a kid. Not to say it's all lascivious, just libertine and hedonistic. |
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