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E.H. Ruddock wrote:Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy. Wtf.
Did you like it? Is it good wtf? Or bad wtf?
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I'm going to end out 2015 reading Letters to a Young Poet and some other short pieces.

Jan 1, I begin Ulysses by James Joyce. Finally.
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I started rereading terry pratchetts catalog upon his death. I'm up to masquerade now and just starting to enter his prime
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durdencommatyler wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy. Wtf.
Did you like it? Is it good wtf? Or bad wtf?
It is good, but much like The Road, it takes you to some dark places.
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durdencommatyler wrote:I'm going to end out 2015 reading Letters to a Young Poet and some other short pieces.

Jan 1, I begin Ulysses by James Joyce. Finally.
i read a few chapters of that in a bookstore a few years ago...need to give it a go for realz sometime
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durdencommatyler wrote: Jan 1, I begin Ulysses by James Joyce. Finally.
I'll believe it when I see it.
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Simple Torture wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote: Jan 1, I begin Ulysses by James Joyce. Finally.
I'll believe it when I see it.
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Unless Margaret Atwood drops a book between now and Jan 1, it's happening. I promise.
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E.H. Ruddock wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy. Wtf.
Did you like it? Is it good wtf? Or bad wtf?
It is good, but much like The Road, it takes you to some dark places.
I like dark places. :naughty:

Have you read all of McCarthy's other stuff? And where does this fall in the stuff you have read?
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durdencommatyler wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy. Wtf.
Did you like it? Is it good wtf? Or bad wtf?
It is good, but much like The Road, it takes you to some dark places.
I like dark places. :naughty:

Have you read all of McCarthy's other stuff? And where does this fall in the stuff you have read?
Read mostly all of it, aside from a couple short pieces I think. This is on the higher side of the collection, but I'm an apologist and love most of his stuff.
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durdencommatyler wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy. Wtf.
Did you like it? Is it good wtf? Or bad wtf?
It is good, but much like The Road, it takes you to some dark places.
I like dark places. :naughty:

Have you read all of McCarthy's other stuff? And where does this fall in the stuff you have read?
I like dark places too, but a father/son combination with zero hope and a supportive bond that the outside world must inevitably ruin was a little much for me. It was parent poison...a miserable blend of Mary Logan and the Seattle sequence from On the Beach. I haven't reread it ever, and never saw the movie, but I'm still bummed about it to this day.
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I got Bob Dylan's Chronicles vol.1 for Christmas so I'm about to start that bad boy.
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McParadigm wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy. Wtf.
Did you like it? Is it good wtf? Or bad wtf?
It is good, but much like The Road, it takes you to some dark places.
I like dark places. :naughty:

Have you read all of McCarthy's other stuff? And where does this fall in the stuff you have read?
I like dark places too, but a father/son combination with zero hope and a supportive bond that the outside world must inevitably ruin was a little much for me. It was parent poison...a miserable blend of Mary Logan and the Seattle sequence from On the Beach. I haven't reread it ever, and never saw the movie, but I'm still bummed about it to this day.
I adore The Road. It's one of my favorite books by any author. The final paragraph destroys me.
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I always meant to read The Road but then I had kids and figured it wasn't for me anymore.
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Man, if having kids keeps you from reading books, I'm glad I'm not having kids.
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The Road is about having children. It's the story of a father and son.
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The Argonaut wrote:The Road is about having children. It's the story of a father and son.
and a wife/mom who abandons her family.
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E.H. Ruddock wrote:
The Argonaut wrote:The Road is about having children. It's the story of a father and son.
and a wife/mom who abandons her family.
typical
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I think The Road is a beautiful story with a lot of humanity, honesty and hope. The father/son connection is palpable. I don't know. I don't have kids.
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LoathedVermin72 wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
The Argonaut wrote:The Road is about having children. It's the story of a father and son.
and a wife/mom who abandons her family.
typical
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