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

[Jeff Newberry]

Suttree is amazing.  I really enjoyed it.  It's like Ulysses in Tennessee.
I liked Child of God quite a lot, myself.  My favorite McCarthy novels:  The
Orchard Keeper (his first) and Blood Meridian.

Has anyone read The Road?  Most of the folks I know who've read it either
completely fell in love with it or hated it.  I've also not read Sunset
Limited, a book I'd like to read.

Jeff Newberry

On 8/13/07, Skip Fox <skip at louisiana.edu> wrote:
>
>  I loved *Suttre*e 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.)
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* new-poetry-bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu [mailto:
> new-poetry-bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu] *On Behalf Of *Anny Ballardini
> *Sent:* Monday, August 13, 2007 2:28 PM
> *To:* NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &amp;Views
> *Subject:* Re: [New-Poetry] Film buffs & rabbit raisers
> mightenjoythis:BunnyShining
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>
>
> 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.
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
>
> *From:* Skip Fox <skip at louisiana.edu>
>
> *To:* 'NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &amp;Views'<new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu>
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> *Sent:* Monday, August 13, 2007 9:11 PM
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> *Subject:* RE: [New-Poetry] Film buffs & rabbit raisers might
> enjoythis:BunnyShining
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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 Go*d. One of the most ironic titles in contemporary literature.
> (And yet . . .)
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* new-poetry-bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu [mailto:
> new-poetry-bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu] *On Behalf Of *Anny Ballardini
> *Sent:* Monday, August 13, 2007 1:40 PM
> *To:* NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &amp;Views
> *Subject:* Re: [New-Poetry] Film buffs & rabbit raisers might enjoy
> 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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