Someone needs to report on McCarthy on Oprah. I thought The Road was astonishing, but so not the book I would expect Oprah to grok, or to pick for her book club.
I got stupid. The money was too good.
Jayne ,'Objects In Space'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Consuela - Jun 05, 2007 7:24:48 pm PDT #2749 of 28176
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Toddson - Jun 06, 2007 4:26:03 am PDT #2750 of 28176
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
erika, Schutz is ... well, I don't know if "sick fucker" is an accurate description, but he's kind of grim. Lots of people die. He's good, but not a ray of sunshine.
lisah - Jun 06, 2007 5:53:45 am PDT #2751 of 28176
Punishingly Intricate
Oh, I love his work. He's like a feral Faulkner.
Genius! I love him too although I haven't read the Road yet. I had to take a break from the post-Apocalypse for a while.
Toddson - Jun 06, 2007 6:07:01 am PDT #2752 of 28176
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
oh, and for the grammatically inclined (isn't that all of us?) - I was leafing through a book of erotica at Borders and came across a story where the heroine is named Cedilla. Heroes are Asterisk and Apostrophe.
Ginger - Jun 06, 2007 6:08:26 am PDT #2753 of 28176
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I hope the colon doesn't make an appearance.
Toddson - Jun 06, 2007 6:11:06 am PDT #2754 of 28176
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I think my role on the board has become setting up for comm-worthy posts.
shrift - Jun 06, 2007 6:36:57 am PDT #2755 of 28176
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
The Printers Row Book Fair is this weekend. Anyone going?
Kathy A - Jun 06, 2007 7:06:11 am PDT #2756 of 28176
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
That place has huge money-suck potential for me, so I'd better avoid it. Damnit. Maybe next year.
shrift - Jun 06, 2007 7:28:57 am PDT #2757 of 28176
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
This is my issue, Kathy. Not to mention that I went on a little shopping spree at Borders last weekend.
Margaret T. - Jun 06, 2007 7:36:00 am PDT #2758 of 28176
Dedicated lurker
Oprah's take on The Road was that it was a wonderful story of father/son love. McCarthy dedicated the book to his young son, and said that he would not have written it if he had not become a father (again) late in life. Oprah didn't deal with the post-apocalyptic idea very much in the interview.
The interview was taped in New Mexico, so McCarthy wasn't exposed to a studio audience. He seemed like a nice guy, dedicated to his writing. Didn't seem to feral in person, despite his writing.