/lit/ - Literature

ive only read The Road and it was shit. At this point im a little scared because I really don't know if McCarthy is a meme or not.

Is this the best post apocalypse book?

ITT (internet topic today)

Share books that are not worth it, and say why.
If I wrote like retard I would not be published. So I’m not going to let someone else slide with it just because he has a name. Also I had no idea what a calamite was until I came across the word in this book and had to look it up and I wa ask disgusted I dropped it right then and there

>The boy drank the ice-cold bottle of Coca-Cola (TM) in one gulp. Wow, he said, this is the greatest drink ever, papa.
>That's right, son, let's go find another Coca-Cola Company (C) Coca-Cola (TM). We'll look everywhere if we have to, because it will be worth it. We'll go down every street, if we have to, every avenue, every Road.

Seriously McCarthy?

>think its going to be depressing and oppressive
>it's actually pretty comfy

ITT: post Father's Day /lit/

This was the last great american novel ever written.

What's some other father and son /lit/, other than Father and Sons ofc

It's better than Blood Meridian.

What was the last book you read that made you obsessed with reading it?!

Was this the last good American novel? So many beautiful passages in this.

>page 4
Below in the little valley the still gray serpentine of a river.
>page 144
The dark serpentine of a dead vine running down it like the track of some enterprise upon a graph.
>Page 237
The coastal plain rivers in leaden serpentine across the wasted farmland.

The Road is the last "great american novel" ever written.

If you disagree, you're a liar.

>casually writes a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel in six weeks
Based Cormac.

>>17747049
While there are many books I like, I can not think of any that made me feel like this after finishing, perhaps some vidya and anime but that is retarded and I don't like vidya anymore. I do remember though struggling through my dad's copy of Cormac McCarthy's The Road when I was a kid for a school book report, and though I disliked it (if I read it now I bet I would like it) I remember many scenes of the book that stuck with me, the ending was quite profound and stark, I guess because it did not have a happy ending like most books I was used to being a kid.

>>15629494

The boy is annoying as fuck

some comfy plague reading

>>14520629

Can you imagine living in a world like this? Seriously. Imagine living in a world like the ones depicted in Metro 2033, Roadside Picnic, shit imagine living in the kind of settings depicted in Fallout, Mad Max, Underrail, etc. What a hellish existence. Dealing with psi beetles, radiation, cannibalism, forced to live underground in tunnels and never being able to see the sun every again.

>Books that every single human inexplicably knows about

Is this book any good