I actually just finished The Road this morning. It was meh.
When a Salman Rushdie type or a Tom Robbins type goes all florid on you you can tell it's because they genuinely enjoy playing with language, which I respect even when it doesn't work (which is often enough, in the case of those two.) I doubt McCarthy would use the words 'enjoy' or 'playing' to describe any part of his process. He writes like a witch put a curse on his family three hundred years ago and the only way to lift it is to use every word in the English language at least once in a published novel.
He writes like a witch put a curse on his family three hundred years ago and the only way to lift it is to use every word in the English language at least once in a published novel.
I actually just finished The Road this morning. It was meh.
When a Salman Rushdie type or a Tom Robbins type goes all florid on you you can tell it's because they genuinely enjoy playing with language, which I respect even when it doesn't work (which is often enough, in the case of those two.) I doubt McCarthy would use the words 'enjoy' or 'playing' to describe any part of his process. He writes like a witch put a curse on his family three hundred years ago and the only way to lift it is to use every word in the English language at least once in a published novel.
That's some great visual imagery right there
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