Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Throughout these reviews and elsewhere, I see words like profound, masterpiece, moving, Pulitzer Prize, Oprah. I must admit that these descriptions caused me to buy this book. But I must completely disagree (and here come the comments about how shallow or unintelligent I must be!) I should know by know that most all of Oprah's selections are very depressing and disturbing. And the Pulitzer certainly doesn't mean "a good read". McCarthy's writing style is very distracting. Many of you have defended his lack of punctuation and his use of sentence fragments. I'm sorry, but as my eyes are scanning the written page, it disrupts my thoughts, as I try to figure out why he "didnt" use the apostrophe there, but "he'd" already used it here, and his words like "they nooned in the middle of the road". Also, an author has the right to write a depressing story, but this one was too dark and dreary, left too many things unknown or unexplained (more comments about how shallow I am), and brought no inspiration or sense of redemption, to make the reading somehow worthwhile. As I complained throughout the book of all these issues, my wife kept pleading for me to just quit reading it. But by gosh, I was determined to see it through, to maybe finally understand all the hoopla and finally see where it was headed. I shouldn't have wasted the time.