[New-Poetry] Film buffs & rabbit raisers might enjoythis:BunnyShining

[Anny Ballardini]

One of my worst defects is to value the latest book I read the best, but then I recover. I agree with the "paring away to show only an essence". Next for me Suttree, since I have it here, hopefully worth the ride. 
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  All the Pretty Horses is a decent book (unlike the movie). McCarthy's prose here is reminiscent of Hemingway, as the later work in the trilogy (of which this is the first), and even beyond. In his early work the prose was Faulknerian. When he focused on the West (after the great Blood Meridan), he seemed to gravitate toward a spare prose with a sense of a dry, hard reality and laconic characters. These are fully realized (if a bit cartoonish . . . as Hemingway is a cartoon . . . as Michelangelo drew cartoons . . . as film noir traffics in cartoons . . . i.e., a wide and respectful sense of the cartoon . . . perhaps a paring away to show only an essence?).



  One of my favorite McCarthy novels (which everyone else berates me for) is Child of God. One of the most ironic titles in contemporary literature. (And yet . . .)



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  it is a parody all right, 

  Just finished 

  All the pretty horses

  by Cormac McCarthy,

  anybody read it here?

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