Yeah I'm hunting used bookstores to get scraps of info and will be writing to unis but jesus this is expensive. Old books cost $$$
Does anybody read [books] anymore?
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This was good and so was his other one, The Painter, but after the two of them I was done with the brooding, loner, broken, manly man wandering the west, describing it's wonders, fucking young women, and shooting people.
This was a fun read. Basically a PG-13 version of The Road.
Kinda depressing so far, if I'm honest...
So, like her previous book the "Poisonwood bible" then?
No idea. I just ended up with this one 'cause the wife was done with it.
i'm reading Steve Lukather's book. then onto John Isley's book on Dire Straits
Emma Southon, A Rome of One's Own
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Sonja Swift, Echo Loba Loba Echo, of wisdom, wolves, and women
I have never read Cormac McCarthy before. Headed out on a road trip tomorrow.
Which one should I start with?
Which one should I start with?
I read The Road and NGL, didn't dig it, don't see what all the fuss is about.
But don't let my lack of enthusiasm turn you off to trying his stuff.
Start with one of his lighter, uplifting works like Blood Meridian
edit: ok, really, maybe just start with All The Pretty Horses.
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The most accessible? I agree with @Fool for All the Pretty Horses, which I think I actually found to be his most depressing book, though probably also the least "brutal". It's probably my favorite McCarthy book, absolutely heartbreaking.
He sure does love to spend a lot of time building up the story before he absolutely burns it all to the ground, huh?
Really loved the narrative style, and the scene building. I expected bleakness but ... Wow.
Also noticed a recurring style where you weren't always sure who was speaking (e.g. imprecisely using pronouns or jumping into a conversation without setting a scene), or sometimes didn't get a perfect understanding of how a situation was unfolding. Usually I assume I missed something and go back to re-read, but that wasn't the case here. Just have to let the words wash over you. Is that a common style choice for him? I enjoyed it.
Really loved the narrative style, and the scene building. I expected bleakness but ... Wow.
Also noticed a recurring style where you weren't always sure who was speaking (e.g. imprecisely using pronouns or jumping into a conversation without setting a scene), or sometimes didn't get a perfect understanding of how a situation was unfolding. Usually I assume I missed something and go back to re-read, but that wasn't the case here. Just have to let the words wash over you. Is that a common style choice for him? I enjoyed it.
He pretty consistent with that style. Very similar to A. B. Guthrie's books, which are also very worthy reads. Guthrie wrote historical fiction about a time and place in America that isn't really discussed in most formal educations.
I think I need to visit Blood Meridian again.
Definitely his milieu. Punctuation is a suggestion only. That bugs me a bit, but his story telling is just so compelling that after a bit I don't notice.
Which one(s) did you read?
Just finished All the Pretty Horses. Starting on The Road. Will probably tackle Blood Meridian after that.
I don't mind the punctuation and it adds to the feeling of just letting the words flow. I kinda like it, actually. The only thing that kept throwing me was not knowing who was speaking (or, occasionally, what the circumstances were) because I kept thinking my ADHD was kicking in and I had simply skipped reading something - which is not unusual for me. Once I stopped second guessing myself it was fine.
Depressing, but fine.
Half the book was world building an epic life adventure before someone kicked God's puppy and everyone suffered forever.
For clarification, All The Pretty Horses is the first book of the Border Trilogy. Assuming you read all 3 books as All The Pretty Horses is pretty upbeat compared to the whole story.
i can only imagine how a audiobook of his might be....
Book adjacent, but I am really pleased to see William Gibson's Neuromancer get picked up by AppleTV for a new series. I hope they go with his idea of what the tech of the future would be like, looking at it from the early '80s when he wrote it
Just read Jon Krakauer's "into thin air" during my flight. Don't think I want climbing Everest on my bucket list.
That's a bit of a sobering account of high altitude mountaineering, for sure. Not a lot of sugar-coating in it...
I just finished a book called "Demon Copperhead" that my wife handed to me randomly. It was OK, I guess.
On the hut trip I went on I started in on "World War II at Camp Hale: Blazing a New Trail in the Rockies" - it was interesting enough that I'm considering checking it out from the library so I can finish it...
That sacred mountain is doing God's work killing off venture capitalists in their prime.
I can't put this down.
ok just kidding. I have started reading "The Creative Act: A Way of Being" by of all people, Rick Rubin. so far very interesting.
ok just kidding. I have started reading "The Creative Act: A Way of Being" by of all people, Rick Rubin. so far very interesting.
A maybe not completely reliable/sane narrator lives light years from anything in a space lighthouse. Fun book.
Also apparently a tv show of some sort according to my googler.
"A remarkably compassionate and forward-looking story of war and mass murder"
The compassionate mass murder genre is my absolute favorite.
got on a reading kick again. "shadow divers" was a good read. lead me to another book by the same author "pirate hunters". another good read, and this has put me on the road to read about some history of what is referred to as the golden age of piracy.
My reading habits take such a nosedive when I've got either a certification to study for or a new skill I'm learning.
I've been renewing a certification for the last couple months and I literally haven't picked up a piece of non-tech reading material in that entire time. Gotta get back to it now that I'm done. I miss it when I'm not reading for pleasure, but at the same time it's not satisfying when I'm spending the rest of my day reading for work.
I've been renewing a certification for the last couple months and I literally haven't picked up a piece of non-tech reading material in that entire time. Gotta get back to it now that I'm done. I miss it when I'm not reading for pleasure, but at the same time it's not satisfying when I'm spending the rest of my day reading for work.
I wish I had my napster files...
This is pretty funny, not sure if it is derivative of a few other books or more of a cumulative satire, still funny.
Intriguing. Added to my list.
This is pretty funny, not sure if it is derivative of a few other books or more of a cumulative satire, still funny.