Sammy J. (SJ) reviewed on 12/7/2010 + 93 more book reviews

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Cormac McCarthy certainly has some serious writing chops, there is no denying that. And this story is a strong and at certain points disturbing, others moving. Yet, there did come a point where I felt that the author was just trying to be disturbing for the sake of disturbance. Not to be a spoiler, but why go to the effort of cooking food if you are not going to eat it? And if food is so valuable, why did they let it burn? It took them months to get that meal, and they left it behind on the fire, charred and inedible? That was when it when from the horrific to jumping the shark. Oh well, at least there weren't any vampires.

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