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1603159 No.1603159 [Reply] [Original]

I can't refrain from calling it poetry...

>> No.1603168

lol

That was written within the past 30 years

therefore I haven't read it.

>> No.1603170

You can, but choose not to.

>> No.1603171

>>1603168
He is frequently compared by modern reviewers to William Faulkner.

Give him a shot, man.

>> No.1603173

why does it have no punctuation?

>> No.1603174

>>1603173
Yeah that pisses me off.

>> No.1603175
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1603175

It is honestly incredible.

But god damn OP lose the movie-cover edition.

>> No.1603180

>>1603175
It's the one I own. It was all that the bookstore had at the time. I've yet to see the movie, though.

>> No.1603184

I like it.

>> No.1603189

derp movie covers are not earnest and or cool, op. u faget xfd

>> No.1603187

>>1603184
Hellz yeah! Damn, I tried to listen to my favorite song at the time - Crank dat Soulja Boy - right after I finished, but the book went to hard. I just had to revel in silence. The humanity... it was too much. As Colonel West would say (with Moby Dick as his example), I had to put it down and take a break for there was too much of life.

>> No.1603193

>>1603180

Only saw the movie. It's one of my favourites.
But now I am actually sad that the book experience will already be tainted by the movie for me.

>> No.1603199

>>1603193

The movie throws in an extra tidbit that thing with the beetle that changed the ending drastically from the book.

>> No.1603257

>>1603193
Don't worry. Much of the magic of the book just lies in the storytelling. I haven't seen the movie, but I find it hard to imagine how they could adapt it into a a good film when so much of the novel relies not on dialogue or description but simply the poetic way McCarthy writes.

Besides, there are plenty of other novels by McCarthy for you to read. :-)

>> No.1603287

the beetle in the movie is the fish in the book

>> No.1603317

Just finished.

Can someone decipher the last paragraph for me?

"On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lied all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery"

>> No.1603344

>>1603317

Basically was saying that the place that Earth used to be will never return. And the creature that came last (humans) is the one to ultimately destroy everything.

>> No.1603378

Thank you to everyone ITT for using spoilers appropriately.

>> No.1603500

>>1603159
Canticle for Leibowitz movie when?