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Post passages that redeemed books / stories you didn't otherwise like

>The kid rose and looked about at this desolate scene and then he saw alone and upright in a small niche in the rocks an old woman kneeling in faded rebozo with eyes cast down. He made his way among thge corpses and stood before her ... She did not look up ... He spoke to her in a low voice. He told her that he was an American and that he was a long way from the country of his birth and that he had no family and that he had traveled much and seen many things and had been at war and endured hardships. He told her that he would convey her to a safe place, some party of her countrypeople who would welcome her and that she should join them for he could not leave her in the place or she would surely die. He knelt on one knee, resting the rifle before him like a staff. Abuelita, he said. No puedes eschucharme? (Little grandmother, can you not hear me?) He reached into the little cove and touched her arm. She moved slightly, her whole body, light and rigid. She weighed nothing. She was just a dried shell, and she had been dead in that place for years."

sorry to bring up BM again. i know it's been talked to death on this board

>> No.13030405

this is the line that "redeemed" the book for you? lol what a joke this board is

>> No.13030412

>>13030405
Its one of the more memorable and fertile events in the novel. It lends itself to a great world of interpretation in its symbolism.

>> No.13030414

>>13030405
don't blame the board for my shit taste

>> No.13030421

>>13030412
>>13030414
yea its the fact that it wasnt immediately obvious from the beginning

>> No.13030425

>>13030421
what are some of /your/ favorite books, anon?

>> No.13030466

>>13030425
the poetry of john donne
paradise lost
aeschylus
goethe
pretty basic stuff

>> No.13030476

>>13030466
i was going to pick a fight with you, but this is actually a very solid list. donne was a fucking pervert man (i mean that in the best possible way)

>> No.13030796

Ive read bm twice and i think atph is better

>> No.13031012

>>13030389
this is pretty bland desu

read Suttree

>> No.13031017

>>13030466
>>13030476
Where to begin with Donne? In my warped mind i get the feeling he's too much of a Jesus freak.

>> No.13031273

>>13031012
context required. also suttree is far and away my favorite mccarthy

>> No.13031768

>>13031017
Just get the collected poetry. He's not like that at all