Sunday, December 18, 2011
Each the Other's World Entire
Today my book club met and it was a delightful event. We read Cormac McCarthy's The Road, and while this was not a delightful book, it was strangely beautiful and made for great conversation. It tore my heart right out, but I really loved it. Go ahead. Read it. If you want.
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I totally agree with you although most people I know didn't like it. He is a beautiful writer. Some of his other books are vivid enough to leave me with nightmares.
Will you bring me your copy? I like to test these books out before I suggest them to my book club. I love a beautifully written book.
bdoc -- library copy. You can sample it on my iPad.
I could barely read this book. I read it through my fingers like you'd watch a horror movie. Yes, it's beautiful, but at the same time I have to stay I kind of hate it.
Read it w the sophs, who loved it. I looked it up, and I blogged about in 2009. Here's what I said: "I'm having a pretty difficult time reading McCarthy's The Road. I'm pretty sure it's the darkest, most depressing and bleak book I've ever opened.
Here's the honest truth: I feel like the book is crushing me."
I am happy I read it, though. I guess.
kc -- Crushing is an apt description. I remember when you blogged about this, and I thought about what it would be like to teach the book when I read it. Good selection for sophs, I think. I cried so hard at the end. A flood of tears. Why did I still like it so much?
mm -- Which other McCarthy books would you recommend?
Jdoc, I also absolutely loved all the pretty horses, which I also taught at ehs. Genius.
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