I did not know that Cormac McCarthy won the Pulitzer Prize for The Road. It is the most disturbing book I have ever read. It is the only book I have ever read that I wish I had not read. It made me realize that there are some places which, once having visited, a person cannot un-visit. The world of McCarthy’s novel is such a place.
One of my favorite movies is “No Country for Old Men.” It is constituted of some elements of the same world that comprise the world of The Road. Do I recommend you read Cormac McCarthy? I neither recommend nor discourage, except to warn: if you choose to, there is no going back. Caveat emptor.
I appreciated reading The Road. The bond between the two. The atmosphere is claustrophobic, but for me believable. I would consider him in the top tier of American writers of both the 20th and 21st centuries.
The Border trilogy put him in the same world of the rarest of the writers that can put so much wonder and class on a page of their thoughts and composition. Rare, indeed, like Townes Van Zandt, one of a kind, a guy with something extra that you anticipate, maybe....crave?
I take it McCarthy's universes do not function in a linear manner. If so, I shall seek out his books. Accepting that the universe is non-linear is difficult.
Michael Crichton, on a dare, undertook to write a version of the Beowulf Saga that is boring. I believe he failed.
I did not know that Cormac McCarthy won the Pulitzer Prize for The Road. It is the most disturbing book I have ever read. It is the only book I have ever read that I wish I had not read. It made me realize that there are some places which, once having visited, a person cannot un-visit. The world of McCarthy’s novel is such a place.
One of my favorite movies is “No Country for Old Men.” It is constituted of some elements of the same world that comprise the world of The Road. Do I recommend you read Cormac McCarthy? I neither recommend nor discourage, except to warn: if you choose to, there is no going back. Caveat emptor.
I appreciated reading The Road. The bond between the two. The atmosphere is claustrophobic, but for me believable. I would consider him in the top tier of American writers of both the 20th and 21st centuries.
The Border trilogy put him in the same world of the rarest of the writers that can put so much wonder and class on a page of their thoughts and composition. Rare, indeed, like Townes Van Zandt, one of a kind, a guy with something extra that you anticipate, maybe....crave?
I take it McCarthy's universes do not function in a linear manner. If so, I shall seek out his books. Accepting that the universe is non-linear is difficult.
Michael Crichton, on a dare, undertook to write a version of the Beowulf Saga that is boring. I believe he failed.