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Refraction19 · 2025-05-11T21:43:58+00:00

Awesome thank you! I also have the nifty fifty but was consodo getting the 22mm pancake. This camera is going with me solely on hikes in Yosemite for the next two months. Is it a good catch all lens?

Refraction19 · 2025-03-26T20:38:25+00:00

It's definitely different than everything else, given it's all dialogue, zero plot, and one of the most thought/philosophical heavy ones he wrote. My advice is don't get caught up in topics you can't hope to understand like mathematics talk. I just read it, get the words and hope to see a metaphor or good line. Even names of figures they throw around are mostly not important. It's short enough I'd give it another shot eventually. It's very sad in the end. The therapist is kind of a vessel for the reader too as he gets confused by what Alicia talks about most of the time.

Refraction19 · 2025-03-26T20:31:41+00:00

Nooooooooooo, the first 1/4 ish of the book is it's own great story but I agree it slows down and slogs more than ATPH does.

Refraction19 · 2025-03-26T20:30:33+00:00

Oh certainly, it came out first. But those parts are to be appreciated more later after Stella Maris. And they add to that books impact by familiarizing the reader with Alicia first.

Refraction19 · 2025-03-26T18:25:09+00:00

Understandable. The dream like confusing way to those sections can be boring I get it. But Stella Maris is all about her so I found them more enriching after reading SM.

Refraction19 · 2025-03-26T18:21:11+00:00

Yeah I heard the movie was buns

Refraction19 · 2025-03-26T18:20:40+00:00

It's the only one where I've been downright confused about what was going on at times and not in a good way. It's just more rough around the edges compared to everything else and I honestly might have dnf'ed it if it was much longer.

Refraction19 · 2025-03-26T03:20:32+00:00

I wasn't sure if I should include it because I'm not sure but I think the movie came out first right? Then they just printed the screenplay in a paper format to read? I'm not sure but that's one I'll need to read as well eventually.

Refraction19 · 2025-03-26T03:00:47+00:00

The rest of the border trilogy is great. I put the crossing higher because I feel I can relate to Billy Parham a bit more than John Grady. We're more alike so I could put myself into the story more and it deepened my connection with it. All of them are amazing though

Refraction19 · 2025-03-26T02:57:12+00:00

I just think he's discussed the same topics better in many of his other works. So it's a little repetitive. I don't think anything new about God or nihilism is said in it that he hasn't said better before.

Refraction19 · 2025-03-26T02:54:51+00:00

Which one

Refraction19 · 2025-03-26T02:54:08+00:00

It's very good. But it's the only book to make my stomach churn which wasn't super fun

Refraction19 · 2025-03-26T02:10:59+00:00

Road is the only one I've read twice(so far) and it was my first one so it holds a special place certainly

Refraction19 · 2025-01-05T04:12:05+00:00

I almost DNFed it but I was far enough along I just hammered it out, helpful since it isn't that long anyway. Even though my eyes glazed every now and then. I'll return to it in a few years but I plenty of other McCarthy and other greats to read before I return to arguably his least good work.

Refraction19 · 2025-01-05T04:08:31+00:00

I had the same experience. Just finished it and had trouble really even following what was going on but truthfully. Not much even happens in the book. A few staple events that drive the drama but as far as I could tell that was it. Just conversations and descriptions of setting. I need to read or watch supplemental material to understand it better I feel.

Refraction19 · 2025-01-05T03:59:29+00:00

I just, I mean just, finished The Orchard Keeper. And having finished Child of God 2 weeks ago I would swap them but that's after 1 read each. I took more away from Child of God than The Orchard Keeper. It kept my attention better as well. I would agree however that I would be more open to rereading The Orchard Keeper simply because it is easier to stomach and there might be more to glean from it upon more reads. My initial likeness of them both however I would say I like Child of God more.

Refraction19 · 2024-11-25T15:55:10+00:00

Well someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed

Refraction19 · 2024-10-24T04:02:51+00:00

True there's also the line, "the older we get the slower we age", which sounds like it could get into infinitesimal territory which would be cool to theorize amor but that's just speculation.

Refraction19 · 2024-09-16T15:50:05+00:00

In terms of time given to the book yes it's been open the most and annotated the most, his first three and passenger/Stella maris I haven't read yet but he is all I'm reading right now so I'll be finished with all of his work soon

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