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05-29-2007, 07:56 PM | #1 |
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Cormac McCarthy's - The Road -
Read it over the holiday weekend. I found it to be a great read.
After starting the book someone mentioned it had been on Oprah's book club -my wife had tried to conceal this fact from me. I was discouraged at first, but read on, undaunted by Oprah’s approval. A day after finishing it, I’ve started it again and I’m about halfway through my second read. I think it is a great piece of fiction. Has anyone else here picked it up? Last edited by 8ballrollin; 05-29-2007 at 08:01 PM. |
05-29-2007, 08:03 PM | #2 |
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My buddy just finished it and raves about it. It is on my summer list.
Too bad McCarthy didn't show some principle and refuse to let Oprah endorse it.
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05-29-2007, 08:27 PM | #3 |
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On principle, I'm afraid to touch anything approved by Oprah. Next thing, you'll know they'll a made for tv movie on Oxygen.
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05-29-2007, 09:14 PM | #4 |
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I can almost guarantee you, for many reasons, not the least of which is the role of protagonist’s wife in the novel - it will never be on Lifetime or Oxygen.
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05-29-2007, 09:23 PM | #5 |
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Oprah has had a lot of great books on her list. What's the problem? People otherwise disinclined to read much are being exposed to great books. Is that a bad thing? This visceral reaction by men becasue Opra is a show followed by housewives is nonsense. So Oprah has the Midas touch; she can all by herself make a novelist rich. So what? If anything, great novelists don't get their due often enough, especially now all most people do is watch television. Do you know how many millions are made every day in our system by charlatans, as opposed to novelists who have this extraordinary, once in a million gift? McCarthy is a classic example. McCarthy spent most of his life in poverty while generating a body of work many people including the storied Harold Bloom believe is the greatest of any living American author.
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05-29-2007, 11:38 PM | #9 |
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I have seen his photo so I think it was probably a car.
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You're quite correct that I don't need it.
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