NP: The Road

[bekah]

Well,  perhaps on a second reading I'll be able to get past the 
starkness and the violence (heads decorated and standing up and the 
slaves and so on) and enjoy the poetry but this time ...

It is worth a second read.

Bekah

At 10:26 AM -0400 10/9/06, The Great Quail wrote:
>  > Okay,  I read Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" this afternoon.   It's a
>>  quick read,  intensely compelling.   But I don't like The Road
>>  anywhere near as well as I liked Blood Meridian.   It's more  barren
>>  and violent than anything  I've ever read and the poetry isn't there.
>
>Oh, I have to disagree. I found it very poetic. It was nowhere near as
>ornate as "Blood Meridian," but I found it very poetic.
>
>"There is no God and we are his prophets." That line alone....
>
>--Quail