SubJeff on 4/1/2010 at 02:35
i want to hear about the plot holes
june gloom on 4/1/2010 at 02:40
haha
i like it subjeff
the_grip on 4/1/2010 at 03:22
Quote Posted by Subjective Effect
i want to hear about the plot holes
Sure, and I'd love to comment about your lack of reading skills as per your completely missing my point in the what are you watching thread. However, I'd be too money on the point because this is a thread about books. I'd also be trolling across from another thread, but you beat me to that one.
PeeperStorm on 4/1/2010 at 06:45
“In lazy Apathy let Stoics boast, their Virtue fix'd, 'tis fixed as in a frost.”
june gloom on 4/1/2010 at 07:37
have i just been told?
Risquit on 4/1/2010 at 17:08
Quote Posted by the_grip
Wow McCarthy's
Child of God is edgy. I like it, but it makes
Blood Meridian look tame, even though CoG is not nearly as violent. And I'm only about 50 pages in.
I still haven't read that one.
Outer Dark is pretty awesome though. He wrote it 40 years ago and the prose is just as powerful as anything he's written in his latter period.
the_grip on 4/1/2010 at 17:12
Outer Dark is actually the next on my list. CoG was written in 1973 (if I remember correctly), and one of the stark contrasts to the other McCarthy stuff I have read is that each chapter is only a couple of pages long (if that) and are like little vignettes into the life of the main character which are interesting if not very perverse. It is an interesting book - much more Southern Gothic and less western (in fact all SG and no western).
Anyone read The Crossing? I liked All the Pretty Horses, but it is much more mainstream and toned down (and it deals with more simpler themes like right of passage, etc.). I'm thinking of reading it after Outer Dark and Suttree, but I'd like some input on it.
all on 8/1/2010 at 14:10
Harold Pinter's plays.
Tocky on 11/1/2010 at 01:58
I haven't read The Crossing but if you want to skip Suttree then you won't be missing much. It's more rambling and pointless than Blood Meridian and with much less for the hell of it unbelievable violence to keep you interested. Then again CoG was the best thing he's written and I defy you to tell me the point of that either. The guy likes being in crazy peoples heads.
june gloom on 11/1/2010 at 02:13
I picked up World War Z again after finishing the Zombie Survival Guide. While there are some obvious, common-sense stuff in the latter, the former is just better reading overall. I did like the "recorded attacks" bit though, that was some prime nightmare fuel (and some of it even gets referenced!)
Reading the ZSG also helped me finally realize that the Chinese government projects (carried on from Imperial Japan's similar projects during WW2) were probably to blame for what happens in WWZ, as it's never actually mentioned in WWZ.
