Archive for October 25th, 2007

Oct 25 2007

Spend spend spend

Published by Fence under Musing

Decisions, decisions. I’m thinking of spending money. But I’m not sure on what yet. When the PSP first came out I did think about getting one. But then that faded and I never did. De sister has a DS, and they do look fun. I’m thinking getting one. With the Brain Training game. Anyone got one and can recommend another game. Or got one and hated it and can tell me why I shouldn’t get it?

Tags: De Sister, DS Lite, games, money, Nintendo, PSP

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Oct 25 2007

The Road

Published by Fence under Books

Author: Cormac McCarthy
ISBN: 9780330447546 DDC: 813.54
Read for the RIP Challenge
See also: LibaryThing ; Darryl’s Library ; Skewed Perspectives ; Cynical Opimitsm ; Bookwomon

When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he’d reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him. Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone before.

Image of The Road This is a novel set at some unidentified point in the future when the world has pretty much come to an end. Something, we don’t know what, has brought society down. There is little food and little shelter left, and for our two main protagonists there is always the danger that they might meet someone on the road, someone who might kill them in order to take what little they have, or maybe someone who might kill them in order to eat them. They travel on, this unnamed man and unnamed boy, constantly on the road, moving trying to find something.

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Tags: 7 Stars, 813.54, apocolyptic future, Cormac McCarthy, dystopian future, end of the world, future, humanity, Pulitzer Prize Winner, RIP Challenge, sff, The Road

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