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

[Skip Fox]

I loved Suttree very much. I remember that while reading it I had to get up
so often to check my unabridged dictionary, that I finally started just
underlining the words, making a list of about ten, then looking them all up
as once, then returning to the book to marvel at his use. ("Dace bright"
shinning and flashing of the river's water, etc.)

 

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mightenjoythis:BunnyShining

 

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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enjoythis:BunnyShining

 

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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Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 1:40 PM
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this:BunnyShining

 

it is a parody all right, 

Just finished 

All the pretty horses

by Cormac McCarthy,

anybody read it here?

 

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