I really don't like this tagging of McCarthy as a 'literary' writer. This implies that he is aiming at producing a body of work to be pored over...
It is over-analysing in the sense that he does it in all of his books, but it is particularly apposite in the case of The Road. I don't think...
Ken Kesey was once asked why he didn't write another novel like Sometimes a Great Notion, and he said that he just plain couldn't work with the...
I dunno about a decline. I know that a lot of his fans loved it, but I'm not too fussed about the Border trilogy. The Crossing is definitely my...
The problem I have with media outrage about this kind of thing, the sort of vapid opinion piece decrying our government for subjecting x or y to...
Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy? Douglas Adams did admit that it's essentially what Sirens of Titan would have been if it had just been a series...
I'll read over 50 this year, probably about the same last year. I don't read all that fast but I read quite a lot. I'll get through some books...
Yeah, it's what he's done in all (I think?) of his books. Some of them have indentation for speech though, the Road being one of them, at least...
Yeah, I think we're all probably reasonable people and aren't going to slip into any kind of oppositional mindset. Like all dichotomies,...
Sometimes a great notion by ken kesey.
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