05-28-2007, 10:39 PM
Ol' Cormac is one of the best American writers today, perhaps ever. Spare prose style that really is beautiful, even when writing about the ugliest of human activities. That someone can paint such a broad and vivid picture with so few words is a gift. Way better than Hemingway.
The Road, his latest, is a real lyrical wrist-slitter and not to be missed. You may want to kill yourself after reading it, but it will be worth it.
End of the world, baby, and it isn't at all pretty. No one knows what happened and several years afterwards, fires are still raging. No food left, not much sunlight, armed gangs of cannibals, devastation everywhere. And that's the fun part!
Seriously, though. Beautiful prose about a dark place.
The Road, his latest, is a real lyrical wrist-slitter and not to be missed. You may want to kill yourself after reading it, but it will be worth it.
End of the world, baby, and it isn't at all pretty. No one knows what happened and several years afterwards, fires are still raging. No food left, not much sunlight, armed gangs of cannibals, devastation everywhere. And that's the fun part!
Seriously, though. Beautiful prose about a dark place.
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