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THE ROAD by Cormac McCarthy
Thursday, February 15, 2007 at 7:14 AM
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Has anyone read this besides me? I read it last week and . . . woah . . . 
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P9FM
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RE: THE ROAD by Cormac McCarthy
Thursday, February 15, 2007 at 8:05 AM
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I heard a review of this book some months back on NPR, thanks for posting this, since it reminded me of the book and that I should read it.
I finished the "Life of Pi" recently and enjoyed it very much. I guess "the Road" would balance that book's overall light with some dark.
not an Obliminal thought in his head
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RE: THE ROAD by Cormac McCarthy
Thursday, February 15, 2007 at 8:39 AM
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SEE BELOW 
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RE: THE ROAD by Cormac McCarthy
Thursday, February 15, 2007 at 8:41 AM
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P9FM wrote:. . . I guess "the Road" would balance that book's overall light with some dark.
To say the least . . .
For some more dark try THE RUINS by Scott Smith. TIDELAND was pretty gnarly too. Now I'm waiting for the library to order THE TERROR by Dan Simmons:
"The men on board, Her Britannic Majesty's Ships Terror and Erebus had every expectation of triumph. They were part of Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition - as scientifically advanced an enterprise as had ever set forth - and theirs were the first steam-driven vessels to go in search of the fabled North-West Passage. But the ships have now been trapped in the Arctic ice for nearly two years. Coal and provisions are running low. Yet the real threat isn't the constantly shifting landscape of white or the flesh-numbing temperatures, dwindling supplies or the vessels being slowly crushed by the unyielding grip of the frozen ocean. No, the real threat is far more terrifying. There is something out there that haunts the frigid darkness, which stalks the ships, snatching one man at a time - mutilating, devouring. A nameless thing, at once nowhere and everywhere, this terror has become the expedition's nemesis. When Franklin meets a terrible death, it falls to Captain Francis Crozier of HMS Terror to take command and lead the remaining crew on a last, desperate attempt to flee south across the ice. With them travels an Eskimo woman who cannot speak. She may be the key to survival - or the harbinger of their deaths. And as scurvy, starvation and madness take their toll, as the Terror on the ice becomes evermore bold, Crozier and his men begin to fear there is no escape..."
I also began AGAINST THE DAY by Thomas Pynchon and it was awesome, but it's about ten thousand pages long and I couldn't renew it for a third time 'cause some other library patron wanted to read it *grrr*
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RE: THE ROAD by Cormac McCarthy
Friday, February 16, 2007 at 10:48 PM
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I'm reading "Twenty Years Before The Mast" by Charles Erskine
Great story about circumnavigating the globe under the command of Admiral Charles Wilkes 1838-1842
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.” Albert Einstein
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RE: THE ROAD by Cormac McCarthy
Tuesday, February 20, 2007 at 5:35 AM
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i read about this.. it seemed kinda scary yes. it's on my list.
right now i am reading the funny sexual frustrations of Portnoy. (Portnoy's complaint)
(Philip Roth)
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