What Did You Just Finish?

[Elspeth]

Originally Posted by Flump

Just finished The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Didn't quite do it in one sitting as recommended. Started last night (sitting in the freezing cold at work) and finished this afternoon (with the wee one asleep on my lap). Couldn't have picked better places to read this.
A tale of a father and young son struggling almost pointlessly through a barren, freezing America after some kind of (never explicitly described but most probably nuclear) global disaster. Escaping cannibals, trying to find good people but trusting no-one. Some really devastatingly powerful moments of intimate beauty and extreme terror (Steven King would get hit by a truck to write terror like this). Some absolutely desperate choices to be made on occasions too especially for a father.
Emotionally exhausted and totally drained now, exactly the way I want to feel after finishing a good book.
They should be reading this in schools alongside Steinbeck's The Pearl.

I've got Dad's copy of the Crossing I've still never read if you want that next

[Flump]

Originally Posted by Elspeth

I've got Dad's copy of the Crossing I've still never read if you want that next

I've still got his copy of All The Pretty Horses too. Are they part of a trilogy?

[Elspeth]

Originally Posted by Flump

I've still got his copy of All The Pretty Horses too. Are they part of a trilogy?

Yeah, which one is first?!
*edit*
Apparantly it's All The Pretty Horses (which Dad thinks I've got-i'll be sure to tell him you do) then The Crossing, then Cities of the Plain.
The one you just read isn't part of it

[Flump]

Dunno, probably the other one that Dad's not letting us borrow til he gets all his other books back.

[Schizophonic]

I've recently finished The Crossing aswell, it was a little exhausting but I loved it. I had hoped that I didn't start off by reading book two of the Border Trilogy if they tied in, which apparently they don't. So it's All the Pretty Horses next followed by Cities of the Plain.


Someone also mentioned The Road which was the first McCarthy book I picked up. I absolutely loved it, it's by far one of the most involving and touching reads out there and I absolutely cannot wait for the movie.

[alter idem]

I just finished THIS. And THIS. Which is about THIS DELIGHTFUL THING. The nightmares will commence shortly.

I think I'll read some nice horror anthology next. It will be relaxing.

[Guinness]

I recently finished A Cat Called Norton, by Peter Gethers (?) about a cat. It's a true story thing, but mainly about how the author's love for his cat helped him find love with humans. It's so cute, I want Norton. Mildly annoying in that the author seems to think he's the only person in the world who feels that way about their cat, but as Norton was his first, I'll let it slide. Crying at the almost-end, laughing out loud at the actual end. It was really sweet.

4/5

[crazzycat]

Hemingway "For whom the bell tolls"-great and noble book