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Cassie (aka Summer Reading 2008)

I think Jesus needs to find Amy.
 
Something else about The Road : it suddenly occured to me that the writing reminds me of Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea: the same beautiful flowing prose, crafted with an economy of words .
 
curiousa2z said:
Something else about The Road : it suddenly occured to me that the writing reminds me of Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea: the same beautiful flowing prose, crafted with an economy of words .
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tell me, are you breaking your Cormac McCarthy cherry with 'The Road'?
 
I am!
 
I'm currently reading a whole batch of X-Treme X-Men I got in the mail today.

RECOGNIZE BITCHES
 
Cassie said:
I am!
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that is just weird, real weird
i suggest:
'All the Pretty Horses' to 1st most, even though i think his best is 'Blood Meridian' but some people really cannot handle it
after those 2 then a must read(preferably before you see the film) is 'No Country for Old Men' which is better than the film, and the film is good
then i guess the rest of the border trilogy:
The Crossing & Cities of the Plain
 
What's X-Treme X-Men?
 
It will be a long time till I see any of the movies, probably when they are on cable. I've been thinking of getting All the Pretty Horses, but the synopsis doesn't make it sound that good. That's probably because I have the wrong idea of what the book is about.
 
Cassie, All the Pretty Horseswas pretty depressing, but richly descriptive- way wordier than The Road.
... he did write some short stories ages ago that I liked, [and of course I cant recall the titles]...they were a little more up - beat . To be fair, I'm not a fan of westerns anyway so that didnt help.
 
well, as 'depressive writers' Cormac McCarthy is the great living one i think...
 
there's a category called "depressive writers"?
 
I kinda like sad stories, it's fun to try and read while crying, lol. I'll definitely try to pick up some of his other novels. I used to love westerns but I haven't been into them for several years.. doesn't mean I won't pick up a Larry McMurtry novel now and then.
 
Sad is happy for deep people.
 
I can honestly say Westerns have never had an appeal as literature. But there are some western films I lurve: Blazing Saddles, Evil Roy Slade....um...ok, those prolly considered comedies first, but still....


sad is fine til it become maudlin.

depressing and hopeless pretty much stay depressing and hopeless.
 
I used to have grocery bags full of Louis L'Amour novels. They were kinda like Harlequins without the sex.

If you ever decide to give westerns a try.. really Larry McMurtry is the way to go. Lonesome Dove won a Pulitzer!
 
Then there's the Lone Star and all those westerns that have tons of sex in 'em. I remember the teenagers would come in the bookstore and go over to the westerns, read them, then go snicker at the covers on some of the sci-fi/fantasy books.
 
Does anyone else have anything to add about The Road?
Did you find a bit of hope any where in it, or was the whole story pointless and depressing?
(Not his technical writing skills - his writing is, as I mentioned, IMHO, gorgeously crafted - like Hemingway's prose was.)
 
ah.
 
I think the boy carried the hope with him, and the man made sure of it by not allowing them to become animals. I think that is what the man meant when he told the boy he carries the fire. Maybe that was the whole point of the journey, for the man to find others who hadn't lost their humanity so the boy would have people who could rebuild society to grow up with. Of course it would take longer than the boy's lifetime, but it has to start somewhere.
 
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