NP - William Faulkner Goes Online, 50 Years Later

[Scott Badger]

I'd recommend everything up to, and including, Blood Meridian -- McCarthy's 
most compelling (and frightening) work. Unfortunately, imho, it also seemed 
to have exhausted him. With the possible exception of The Crossing, as Rich 
pointed out, everything after BM is more like pretty pictures than 
art....For me, The Road was the most disappointing. A stolen Stephen King 
story ghost written by Orson Scott Card is how I've described it......

Alice, I haven't seen it, but your description of the movie version makes it 
sound more McCarthy-like than the book....

and, of course NCFOM was a better film than The Road....it's the Cohen 
brothers!....

Scott

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "rich" <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
To: "alice wellintown" <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 10:34 AM
Subject: Re: NP - William Faulkner Goes Online, 50 Years Later


>I liked the book but the movie suffered from that all intrusive
> background music (do directors not think we won't get when a scene is
> sad or strange but feels the need to add music just in case) though it
> pretty much mirrored the book pretty well
>
> thought No Country was much better film-wise than The Road
>
> rich
>
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 9:20 PM, alice wellintown
> <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yes, thank you. Speaking of Faulkner, we decided, after reading The
>> Road, to get the film and view it. Depressing. Sad. True to the plot
>> and setting, but the novel lifted us up while the film made us crawl
>> under the covers and weep.
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Page <page at quesnelbc.com> wrote:
>>> David, this is wonderful. Thanks--Page
>>>
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>>> Subject: NP - William Faulkner Goes Online, 50 Years Later
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>>> http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128513514
>>>
>>> "Faulkner spent two years as the writer-in-residence at UVA, where he
>>> gave lectures and readings and took questions from students. The
>>> lectures," from the late 1950s, "were recorded on reel-to-reel tapes,
>>> which have now been digitized and published online."
>>>
>>>
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