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Onalethata Tautona onnytaudde5 — 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction At first, I found McCarthy's prose style pretentious and irritating, but once I began to care what happened to the man and the boy, all bets were off. I lay on the brown couch in my bleak gray basement. Gray like the ashes of a dying civilization. The couch comfortable. The blanket tucked around me. A spoiled American brat who doesnt know true suffering. This book is torturing me, I say to the room. Are they going to die? No, they're not going to die. Because they're the good guys, right? Yes, they're the good guys. Okay. The parody version of The Review has already been done. The exhausted hilarity. The dead horse beaten into dust. Something about macadam. I'll have to look that one up. I'll has an apostrophe, but wont doesnt. The irish cream necessary for me to complete The Review. Swirling into my gullet like a cyclone flushing its way into loathsome space. The soul of a dying penitent reaching out for his nonexistent God. The mystery of the apocalypse. Why werent humans destroyed too if all of the animals were gone? The setup. The unanswered questions. The burning forests, the mostly-intact houses. The jarring, ill-fitting ending. Query: Why did I like this book? In all seriousness, I liked the book because it gave me hope. Maybe people who have very sunny lives (or very gentle hearts near to the surface, like my husband) don't want to deal with all the darkness. Maybe I don't even need such darkness in my entertainment, the "tragedy porn" as another reviewer aptly put it. Maybe it's wrong to equate my recent (and very first-world) suffering with a post-apocalyptic survival story. Yet, equate it I do, as a metaphor if nothing else. This story simultaneously shames me with its tattered characters struggling to live and uplifts me with their assertion that life must continue one step at a time, for the sake of love, if for no other reason. Isn't love the only real meaning there is?

Cinthia Silva jessie_ilva — This is the one and only book I've read through in French. Not Camus, not Flaubert, but Christie! Because regardless of unknown words, I could always predict what was going on!

Humberto Albarrán hjalbarran — This book on the history of birth was one of my favorite books of all time. It was so incredibly interesting and the research was very well done. I also love medical books and things that may make you a little squeamish - women did not have it so easy back in the day! It also helped me accept the scheduled c-section I had to have with my daughter. It was just refreshing to read rather than all the negative stuff that is out there. Sometimes you need to do what's best for you and your baby and luckily we have all the resources for healthy deliveries these days. I may not have survived 100 years ago!

Natalia Lopez natylopezhernandez — First of all, I have to say that the absolute worst thing about this book was the stupid cover art. If I had not read the previous books in this series, I would have dropped this thing like a hot potato for looking WAY too much like a cheap romance. It did this unique and complex story no justice what-so-ever. In this final book in the Doctrine of Labyrinths series, the author nicely ties up many loose ends. The brothers come to some sort of understanding, and Felix (finally !!!) begins to grow up and act more like a decent human being. I don't want to give too much away, but Sarah Monette stays true to her usual complex characterization and the brothers' relationship doesn't come to a neat "storybook" ending. Yet I still felt relatively satisfied. On the negative side, you never really do find out what happened back in Melusine. Lots of loose ends here if the author ever decides to revisit this world. And the introduction of yet another character given voice in Kay is just absurd. He should have stayed a minor character in the background. But overall I was quite happy to have read this series and will look for future books by this author for sure. For all the fantastical elements in her books, nobody writes such realistic interpersonal relationships and inner torment like Monette!