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Hallelu-yer! I finally finished reading Underworld! I feel like I need a chevron on my sleeve for reading 800+ pages of postmodernist minimalism. I mean, how many pages must he fill with irony?! I respect the book and I must admit that it is really expert, but I'll let others fill in the blanks with purple encomiums. Hope you are well....
Hey girly I will definetly being putting your books on my list to read. I suggest you read The Sparrow if you havn't yet
Thank you! You have a great selection as well. =]
I don't know if I am as big of a mystery fan as you. I will read it here and there...but I saw from your shelf that you are reading Underworld. I'm stuck on p. 300 or so. Have been for a few of months. I am going to try to finish the final 500 page this summer, I tell myself. Why? Because I've already 300 pages, dammit, and that would count for a whole book in some circles! And I like it too. But I stopped reading it to read shorter books and now it has become furniture. What are you doing with it?
I get a curious case of readers block??? I suddenly can't remember titles of anything I've read...
Fascinating. Do you know that in Beowulf, the sea is described as "the whale road." That is not quite a universal road, but I see what you mean. Scale.It's different for me. I see it as a whistle-tune, something like "Always look at the bright side of life." It's as if McCarthy says to us, 'cheer up! Just because you humans blew it, destroyed yourselves, at least some other species will survive--trout, cockroaches, finches, dandelions--something.' It's very lyrical and poetic--that final paragraph. It really is an amazing book. Have you read his "No Country for Old Men"? THAT is completely different. I have ordered Kunstler's The Long Emergency from the library and plan to read it soon. What depressing, nihilistic, bleak books are you reading?
Hey Vena! Thanks for sending me to this website! This is a great idea. My mom and Renee have signed up. You should add them to your friends.
I haven't read "Parable of the Sower," but I know what you mean about "the Road." Bleak. I liked how the community still came together in World Made by Hand. Plus, I liked how entirely plausible the scenario seemed. McCarthy's novel seemed more like a fable. What did you think of the final paragraph in the Road? How did you interpret it?
