which rendered its violent, grotesque world in more gorgeous, melancholic, biblical cadences??
― vahid (vahid), Monday, 15 January 2007 08:26 (seventeen years ago) link
the part where they drive that car w/ the prisoners strapped to the front into the back of the oil rig was brutal!
― vahid (vahid), Monday, 15 January 2007 08:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Monday, 15 January 2007 09:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― slackety yax (H2-H4), Monday, 15 January 2007 23:08 (seventeen years ago) link
def. a bleaker view of the future than the mel gibson pics, and as much as i like those movies (a lot!), they're kind of weird policedude's idea of morality vs. a certain idea of "anarchy," and as i like my dystopian visions pretty much as dystope as can be i vote for "the road."
― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 00:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 01:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― indian rope trick (bean), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 01:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 03:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 09:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 19:35 (seventeen years ago) link
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― ☪, Monday, 27 August 2007 09:10 (sixteen years ago) link
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http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0730,idea,77350,9.html
― ☪, Monday, 27 August 2007 09:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Vahid's hatred of McCarthy is great on the ILBooks thread.
― ian, Saturday, 22 December 2007 22:18 (sixteen years ago) link
it's a love-hate relationship. my BFF in college, who was the gallic-cool pea-coat and creeper-wearing english major, gave me a copy of "all the pretty horses" for christmas when i was a freshman. i forget what i gave him ... maybe twin peaks videos?
anyway, i got really into cormac mccarthy in a big way until 2001 when i sorta snapped out of it and realized that nihilism was a shitty philosophy to adopt at age 25! honestly, though, seeing "no country for old men" is making me v v sad that i spent so much time shitting on the poor guy, he's great.
i just got one of my students a borders gift certificate for christmas - she did like 30 hours of interviews for a paper i wrote - and i recommended some stuff to her, including cormac mccarthy! i think it's about right for 17 year olds.
― moonship journey to baja, Saturday, 22 December 2007 22:26 (sixteen years ago) link
i'll admit tho that i've got a real soft spot for fatalism - maqroll the gaviero is probably my favorite literary character of all time. he's like this vagabond sailor who takes various jobs - smuggling weapons on horseback through the mountains of colombia, sailing a tramp steamer down the uncharted tributaries of the amazon (hi dere fitzcarraldo), etc etc highly recommended
― moonship journey to baja, Saturday, 22 December 2007 22:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Child Of God is the one that sticks with me the most over time, though I'm due for a re-read. Even in high school/college, everything to me reaked of Flannery O'Connor/Faulkner/KA Porter derivations...
― Steve Shasta, Sunday, 23 December 2007 02:20 (sixteen years ago) link