-— You did not really mean to compare that pile of crap to Shakespeare did you? -—
Absolutely. The writing is excellent, and it’s the best portrayal of evil that I can think of since Dostoevsky or Shakespeare.
Standards for excellence are not what they once were.
“The writing is excellent, and it’s the best portrayal of evil that I can think of since Dostoevsky or Shakespeare.”
Maybe, but try Chigurh from McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men or even - for sheer brilliance in describing the mind of a hellbent psycho after power - the Broken Empire Trilogy, starting with Prince of Thorns, by Mark Lawrence. It’s just a fantasy novel, but the writing about the main character’s inner mind are fascinating and shocking.