NP - The Leftovers

[Mark Kohut]

"Based on a real person" which the Judge is, I have learned....
means what? in the scope of judging this book?

On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 6:12 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
> I thought Blood Meridian was deliberately taxing. I got the sense that
> the Judge wasn't just a figure of Evil but was related to technology
> and modernity in ways that are really Pynchonian. The pre-lapsarian
> non-modern world is just as violent, though, and there's no grace
> anywhere. Just different modes of horror. Such a depressing book.
>
> The Road is much, much more readable and less dispiriting (though it
> made me cry twice!) I can totally understand not being drawn to read
> anything more, though. I haven't picked up anything else of his
> despite enjoying those two.
>
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 9:46 AM, Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com> wrote:
>> You'll have no invective from me. I'm actually surprised it took this long
>> for someone to say something critical about Mccarthy.
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 10:28 AM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I've been following the discussion on Cormac McCarthy - and have to weigh
>>> in as not being a fan. Admittedly, I've only read Blood Meridian and seen
>>> the movie version of No Country For Old Men, which may not be a
>>> representative sampling. But I read his primary theme as Evil, and Man's
>>> need to reckon with or otherwise atone for or own up to it. Yes, the
>>> language is poetic, but it doesn't send my brain into thought-provoking
>>> areas. If the Judge is a representation of the Evil That Men Do, well, at
>>> the end of it all, so what? [Pause, to get pelted with invective]
>>>
>>> I recently binge-watched the first two seasons (a third and final one is
>>> in the offing) of the HBO series, The Leftovers. And in some ways, it does a
>>> more interesting job of setting up a metaphor for Man reckoning with Death.
>>> The premise of the show is that, one day, 2% of the wor'd's population
>>> randomly disappears, and those left behind must make sense of it. Is it the
>>> Rapture, a punishment, a conspiracy or just a random, meaningless event? The
>>> point of the show is that there will never be an answer. A strange cult that
>>> arises seems (to me) to be a stand-in for organized religion.
>>>
>>> Anyone seen it?
>>>
>>> Laura
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>>
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