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Interesting. I read THE FOUNTAINHEAD first, then immediatly dove into ATLAS SHRUGGED. This was in 1978. I must admit, they both influenced me greatly. ....glad to hear that , and it's good to know AYN RAND is still being read .
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Jan 27, 2007 - 10:09 PM
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David in NY
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I just finished the the novel THE ROAD by Cormac McCarthy. I really didn't like
his All The Pretty Horses, but this is an amazing novel. He writes in sentence
fragments, but his writing is stunning. "Autistic nights...secular wind...each the
other's world entire."
It is a devastating post-apocalyptic novel of a future dead world and a father and
son trying to survive. It is relentlessly gray and depressing, and yet....
And yet is it an unflinching love story between a father and son. It shows
us the worst humans are capable of, and because of love, the best we
are capable of even in the face of impossible odds. I haven't been as touched
by a piece of writing since the short story Brokeback Mountain. The world
the boy and his father are trying to survive in is extremely bleak, but still
there is love and the next day and the next.
Warning, it is very dark and makes Alas Babylon look Utopian.
Thanks Joan. This doesn't sound like it might be to most people's choice for a read, but it does to me! Thanks, I'm gonna look it up! David
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Reading at the moment quite a few books:
PAPILLON
IN THE PENAL COLONY (Kafka)
FATELESS(NESS)
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HOTEL HONOLULU by PAUL THEROUX
Excellent in every way.
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When you get to the last page, that last paragraph of a book that you are loving and don't want to end - is there an apt description of this feeling book lovers? I was in the waiting room of my Doctor's Office when yesterday I finished 'LONESOME DOVE'. I will miss lugging that book of 858 pages along with me to and from work and sharing the lives of these Cowboys and their Women in the 1850's. I have had a favorite book all of my life - John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' and it's remained at that spot until now. Larry McMurtry's 'LONESOME DOVE' was just such an incredibly lively read with the most realistic characters both good and bad, the most exciting and VIVID depictions of the beauty and hardships and the joys and the terrors that these people experienced on a cattle drive from Texas to Montana... my alltime FAVORTIE NOVEL. 'Thank You' Larry McMurtry!
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