Cormac McCarthy
The Road
Dir: John Hillcoat
Writ: Joe Penhall, based on book by Cormac McCarthy
Viggo Mortensen … Man
Kodi Smit-McPhee … Boy
IMDb | Metacritic
Grey is the first word I think of when I think about this film. Grey and bleak. That is to be expected; this film is set after the apocalypse. A time when the world has turned to ash, [...]
Tagged: 8 Stars, based on book, Cormac McCarthy, dystopian future, end of the world, grey, Joe Penhall, John Hillcoat, Kodi Smit-McPhee, R16, sff, The Road, Viggo Mortensen
Happy Halloween
So I bought my shiny shiny Nintendo DS Lite last night. And got a great deal from Argos. €149 for the console, a game[1] and an accessory pack. So basically I paid for the console and got the rest of the stuff for free. I also bought one of those Brain Training thingies. Which was [...]
Tagged: Argos, Christopher Priest, Cormac McCarthy, DS Lite, Jim Butcher, Laurell K. Hamilton, Michael Collins (author), Nintendo, Poppy Z. Brite, RIP Challenge, Shiny, shopping, Stephanie Meyer
The Road
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 [...]
Tagged: 7 Stars, 813.54, apocolyptic future, Cormac McCarthy, dystopian future, end of the world, future, humanity, Pulitzer Prize Winner, RIP Challenge, sff, The Road
Blood Meridian
Or the evening redness
Author: Cormac McCarthy
ISBN: 0679728759
DDC: 813.5420
See also: CormacMcCarthy.com ; Library Thing
See the child. He is pale and thin, he wears a thin and ragged linen shirt. He stokes the scullery fire. Outside lie dark turned fields with rags of snow and darker woods beyond that harbor yet a few last wolves.
This may sound [...]
Tagged: 10 Stars, 813.5420, beautiful prose, Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy, death, humanity, murder, USA - western, violence, War, well-written
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