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Further to [url= http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/anyone-read-the-road-by-cormac-mccarthy ]this thread[/url], have just finished reading [i]Suttree[/i]. What a magnificent book! Sad and funny in equal measure - and filled with stunning evocations of the American landscape.
As ever, I find his work strangely consoling, even at its most bleak.
Glorious book [b]noteeth[/b]. It is really sad, for some reason. The whole novel is like an elegy for a time in America that is slowly coming to an end. The '[i]hell, old Sutree ain't dead![/i]' line towards the end is exceptionally memorable for me.
Anything good lined up next? I can't really be arsed reading much of anything at the moment - I see Pynchon has one coming out next month that should get me started again.
[i]The 'hell, old Sutree ain't dead!' line towards the end is exceptionally memorable.[/i]
Absolutely. Like much of his work, it lingers long in the mind.
Actually, just prior to [i]Suttree[/i], I'd taken your advice [on the other thread] and read [i]The Sound and The Fury[/i], fantastic and bewildering as it is. I've read other books by Faulkner ([i]As I lay dying[/i], [i]Light in August[/i]), and it's not hard to see why many see CM as his spiritual heir.
Next - um dunno. I alternate wildly between becalmed inactivity and feverish reading - might switch from the Americana for a while, but to what, I'm not sure... 🙂