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Shadow Country
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Well, this was long. Real long. Sometimes these things are necessary – a shorter version of Ulysses or Gravity's Rainbow or Infinite Jest wouldn't have worked. But Shadow Country? I'm not so sure.
On the one hand – and this is the part I liked – you get this very complete portrait of a place and a time, the Florida Everglades back when it truly was the frontier, and all of the characters that make up that place and time. This is something that particularly came together in the third book. But did it work as a novel? That I'm not so sure of. All I could think the whole time was that in the hands of Cormac McCarthy, this would have been an unqualified masterpiece.
On the one hand – and this is the part I liked – you get this very complete portrait of a place and a time, the Florida Everglades back when it truly was the frontier, and all of the characters that make up that place and time. This is something that particularly came together in the third book. But did it work as a novel? That I'm not so sure of. All I could think the whole time was that in the hands of Cormac McCarthy, this would have been an unqualified masterpiece.
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Reading Progress
April, 2022
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Started Reading
April, 2022
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Finished Reading
April 21, 2022
– Shelved
May 3, 2022
– Shelved as:
2000s-american-fiction
May 3, 2022
– Shelved as:
american-fiction
