cormac mccarthy

does anyone here have any experience with this novel? yes, it's Western, but it is also a tremendous and brutal horror story. and, IMO, one of the greatest American novels.

Stephen King tweated: Cormac McCarthy, maybe the greatest American novelist of my time, has passed away at 89. He was full of years and created a fine body of work, but I still mourn his passing.

I haz questions. Is it Sci-Fi? Does the ending give anyone else hope? What in your opinion was the author trying to convey about people with all the dark themes? Did you like it? I did.

Hello everyone, I just finished reading McCarthys The Road. I found this to be a very fast read and found myself really drawn into the book. I understand there are literary criticisms of the way McCarthy writes (I will admit there were a couple of sentences that really jarred) but overall I...

The Road Cormac McCarthy Knopf, Sep 2006, $24.00 ISBN 0307265439 The cities and much of the woodland have vanished in a pandemic inferno; the birds no longer fly as they all died in the catastrophe. Nothing seems to live in the oceans. Left behind is a world with few living species struggling...

I wrote a review of Cormac McCarthy's the Road two years ago, just after Oprah adopted it into her book club. I loved the book, but I was never very happy with the review. "You missed something the first time around, boy," I kept telling myself. Now that the movie has hit the theaters I thought...