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QC Forum Book Group - Nominations for Book #2
KharBevNor:
Any sane person would have rendered the paragraph thusly:
--- Quote ---They rode on, and the sun in the east flushed pale streaks of light and then a deeper run of color, like blood seeping up in sudden reaches flaring planewise; and where the earth drained up into the sky at the edge of creation the top of the sun rose out of nothing, like the head of a great red phallus until it cleared the unseen rim and sat squat and pulsing and malevolent behind them. The shadows of the smallest stones lay like pencil lines across the sand and the shapes of the men and their mounts advanced elongate before them, like strands of the night from which they'd ridden, like tentacles to bind them to the darkness yet to come. They rode with their heads down, faceless under their hats, like an army asleep on the march. By midmorning another man had died and they lifted him from the wagon where he'd stained the sacks he'd lain among and buried him also and moved on.
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I vote for the Bridge.
Scandanavian War Machine:
yeah, that's waay easier to read.
I mean, I like McCarthy and all, but jeez the run-on sentences can be rough sometimes.
Inlander:
I've edited the poll to keep it up-to-date with current voting. I think someone suggested Blood Meridian in the other thread, plus all of Johnny's boosting may as well be a vote, so that's good enough for a "thirding" in my book. I'll unlock the poll when all the spots have been filled.
a pack of wolves:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 11 May 2010, 16:41 ---Any sane person would have rendered the paragraph thusly:
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I haven't read Blood Meridian, but I know McCarthy uses prose style in interesting ways in Suttree. After the first couple of pages the prose in that book is absolutely turgid, it feels like someone being needlessly overwrought in order to manufacture an illusion of profundity. Then you realise after the style shifts when a different character is focussed upon the text is warping according to who it's looking at, and that initial reaction to the prose serves as a critique of the character. So the fact that the prose there would be easier to read with the insertion of more punctuation doesn't mean much out of context, since that cumbersome quality might well be key to what the text is trying to say.
JD:
--- Quote from: Blue Kitty on 11 May 2010, 13:33 ---Can we nominate graphic novels?
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I nominate Maus then
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