The Road. NBA winner? Pulitzer? Nobel?!

[Henry Winkler]

I agree. NCOM was not very good though I'm interested to see what kind of movie the Coen bros. make out of it. The Road is short, takes a day or two to read. If you don't squeeze out a tear or two at the end, you're one of the bad guys. 

  Fonz
  
bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
        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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