The Road. NBA winner? Pulitzer? Nobel?!

[bekah]

Good.   I got my copy yesterday.   I'm looking forward to having some 
time to read it.   Actually,   I looking forward to having some time 
but that's another issue.

I was seriously disappointed with No Country for Old Men; I thought 
it was a silly violent story which McCarthy used as a soapbox to 
express his own views.   I saw film rights written all over it 
including the cliched scene of the dusty town street through the lace 
curtain of an open second-story hotel window.   I suppose it will 
have a nice place in McCarthy's oeuvre, though because it could be 
seen as the contemporary situation in the violent West.   McCarthy 
has been very uneven in quality from sublime to trash.


Bekah


At 9:47 PM -0700 9/27/06, Henry Winkler wrote:
>The Road was absolutely awesome. Much better than No Country for Old 
>Men. Very moving. Doesn't rise to the celestial highs of Blood 
>Meridian, Suttree, or even All the Pretty Horses, but it's among 
>Mayor McC's best. By the way, how come Michiko K. didn't review a 
>major book like The Road?
>
>I've also been reading Richard Ford's new Frank Bascombe novel Lay 
>of the Land and so far (by chapter 3) it's excellent.
>
>Ruggles appears to have stiff competition for the NBA and Pulitzer 
>this year. He'd better resurrect Slothrop and Mucho Maas for some 
>cameos in ATD.
>
>Oh, and JG Ballard has a new book out in England named Kingdom Come. 
>M. John Harrison panned it, but it's typical Ballard, not dissimilar 
>to some of the Master's best, High Rise, Crash, Unltd Dream Co.
>
>
>
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