Reply #4: haven't seen movie, ugly ugly book

[pitohui]

disaster porn really

i'm fairly sure all that guff the author told oprah about how it's abt a father's love for his son was a nice southern gentleman's way of telling her that he don't write "oprah books," a nice way to say "fuck you" basically

there is no hope or beauty in the book, and he really isn't subtle abt it, although i guess if you totally can't read for comprehension at all, one might find the ending to be somehow inspirational altho the author does pretty much everything but say in the last paragraph, there is no hope, nope, this can't be fixed

i'd say about two pages after the end of the book, as soon as their own kids are hungry, our hero is cooked and eaten by the jesus freaks, but maybe you have to be from the south and have actually met these "praise the lord" type people to get it...still...he does put in that final paragraph that puts it pretty much in words of one syllable that it's hopeless

as a wonderful warm father/son love story, that's his little joke, jesus, you'd have to be the most evil dude on earth to call that straight-faced a love story to one's son

the science fiction element is also annoying, since it is never explained how EVERY living thing including all the trees EXCEPT for all humans and one dog can be wiped out, such that people have no choice but to eat old canned goods and each other, but i'll accept that as, OK, if it really happened, maybe you wouldn't be able to figure out what caused it...but it's still annoying, i'm pretty sure that an event that destroys entire forests and leaves no green plant alive is going to do some damage to human cells, just a guess -- but that's the SF reader in me, i do accept that writers from outside the genre don't even bother to try to make things seem realistic

really, it's just wallowing in misery in my opinion...hope the movie was better

i didn't think the movie "no country for old men" was half bad, in fact, i rather enjoyed it, but nobody tried to pretend that was supposed to be all inspirational :-) just give me the darkness straight up, spare me the sentimental kiddie crap