Book List

I've got the first two on your list - John dies at the end is definitely amusing, you'll get a few chuckles. Struggled to hold my interest at times. Very entertaining in certain parts though, and I can understand why people would love it. It just wasn't really my type of book. The second, the road, is depressing as fuck (if you'll excuse my language). Probably the most depressing book i've ever read. Yes, the language is beautiful. Yes, McCarthy is brilliant. But I can only take so much bleakness and repetitive doing the same thing over over and over again. Everybody has a threshold! It got me a bit choked up near the end, which a book rarely - actually, I don't think ever - does to me. I don't think I would ever read it again though, if Im honest. Once is enough I think!

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I read all of Cormac McCarthy's books because I was brought up reading western pulp and hard boiled detectives; his novels fall within southern gothic or western noir genre's
I've read all the Dune novels years ago and if I remember right was saddened to see them come to an end.
I couldn't get into the book thief for some reason but The time Machine and War of the Worlds are classic SF

Books that I love and have read more then once;
The Things That They Carried by Tim O'Brian..The best war related novel I have ever read.
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts Supposed to be true but many believe it too over the top to be so, regardless it's one hell of a novel. Think The Count of Monti Cristo on steroids.
The Sparrow by Maria Doria Russell won the British Science Fiction association award in 1998.