----- Original Message ----- From: "cptpipes2000" <
cptpipes@hotmail.com> To: <
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, November
18, 2006 2:03 PM Subject: RARA-AVIS: Re: From McCarthy's The
Road
> miker quoted The Road including the
following:
> > He is coming to steal my eyes. To seal my mouth
with dirt."
>
> Hot damn, I love that book too. Yes, it would be
simple to write a
> hacky parody of it, but that makes it no less
moving. I hated to put
> it down.
I agree with you wholeheartedly...this was the most haunting,
bleak book I've read in some time and drew me in to its world
like no other book has for years. Possibly the best book I've
read this year, it was heartbreaking and heart-affirming, all
at once. The dread, fear, love, respect,etc. that I had for
those two characters, the immersion I had in their bleak
world, was unlike anything I've experienced in reading for
quite some time. When something would threaten them, I would
feel a cold blanket of fear lay upon me for them, and I would
fear for their safety -- I mean, that kind of reaction just
doesn't happen for me any more in books, ever. And the
imagery, the symbolism, the breadth of it all -- outstanding.
The way McCarthy is able to communicate the depth of the
parental/child bond in such spare, plain terms is nothing
short of brilliant.
On the heels of this I read NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, and found
it similarly compelling, though for different reasons. But
THE ROAD remains, for me, singularly special. BLOOD MERIDIAN
is next up on the TBR pile.
Ron Clinton
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