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Nov. 18th, 2002 03:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
decemberthirtyI finished A Home at the End of the World, and it remained excellent right up to the end. I can't say that the ending turned out exactly the way I wanted it to, plot-wise, but it was still a great book. Probably a better book simply because it didn't turn out the way I wanted it to.
And now I've just started All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy. I've hardly read any of it, so I can't say much yet, but it does look like it's going to be hard work. McCarthy likes extremely long sentences, and seems to almost completely disdain punctuation. This creates an interesting rhythm, but also means that I sometimes get to the period with no recollection of what the sentence about when it started and no understanding of how it got from there to where it ended up. It kind of reminds me of reading Faulkner, not only because the sentences are so long and complicated, but also because I'm having difficulty figuring out exactly who all the people are and how they relate to each other. I don't mind this kind of difficulty, though. I find it fun to read carefully and try to puzzle out how it all fits together... Every once in a while it's nice to read a book that makes you work.
And now I've just started All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy. I've hardly read any of it, so I can't say much yet, but it does look like it's going to be hard work. McCarthy likes extremely long sentences, and seems to almost completely disdain punctuation. This creates an interesting rhythm, but also means that I sometimes get to the period with no recollection of what the sentence about when it started and no understanding of how it got from there to where it ended up. It kind of reminds me of reading Faulkner, not only because the sentences are so long and complicated, but also because I'm having difficulty figuring out exactly who all the people are and how they relate to each other. I don't mind this kind of difficulty, though. I find it fun to read carefully and try to puzzle out how it all fits together... Every once in a while it's nice to read a book that makes you work.
