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I just finished this thought provoking easy read. Yea, I know it has been out for awhile but I'm always behind the times because I have a book obsession. I buy more than I can read and then they sit on the shelf till I can get to them.
At any rate the book really makes you think about what would actually happen if we suffered a planet wide apocolypse. We all think we'd hang onto our compassionate humanity but would we. The bottom line is selfpreservation is one of the most fundemental human characteristics we have. What would you do to protect the lives of yourself and your loved ones in a world gone mad.
At any rate the book really makes you think about what would actually happen if we suffered a planet wide apocolypse. We all think we'd hang onto our compassionate humanity but would we. The bottom line is selfpreservation is one of the most fundemental human characteristics we have. What would you do to protect the lives of yourself and your loved ones in a world gone mad.
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Re: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Thu, August 27, 2009 - 7:11 AMI think the message directly ties to a speech made by the Sheriff character in "No Country for Old Men" (played by TL Jones in the film version) about carrying the small flame into the perpetual darkness.
From my blog at the time, with McCarthy's bizarre appearance on Oprah, which I assume can not be legally youtubed...
www.the10000things.com/2007/0...places/
It's gonna break my heart if the coming film version gets "too Hollywooded" out. From the trailers I've seen, it looks like they might get into some cliche "martial law/apocalyptic" footage, which sucks because I love how the novel laid it out like a Twilight Zone episode: the point isn't detailing how the situation got this way (eco disaster? nukes? virus?), the point is: what do the characters do now, how do they find the motivation to go on against such odds, and retain their former ethics when all others have so eroded?
The novel is very much a love letter from an older man to his young son. I wouldn't be surprised to find by the time the brilliant Mr. McCarthy passes, that he knew he had early stage lung cancer back during the writing of Road (but that's just a speculative theory). -
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Re: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Sat, August 29, 2009 - 10:59 AMI suspect the same about the movie. When I love a book I hate to see them destroy the essense of in on film. -
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Re: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Sun, August 30, 2009 - 2:19 PMBut then the Coen bros. did a good job with "No Country", the major dif. being the female hitchiker character he meets and travels with for a bit. She is cut down to a few lines poolside in the film. But then that novel is more like genre pulp deconstructed than Road, which to me is more like "literature".
The Shinning is another film version Kubrick took and definitely made his own, without the scary hedge animals, firehose, or blowing up the Overlook as in the film. Both versions of Lolita are another example.
I love both mediums - translation is possible, despite so many dismal failures. -
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Re: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Sun, August 30, 2009 - 2:21 PM"Shining" - hate how Tribe doesn't let you edit yr own posts!
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Re: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Mon, August 31, 2009 - 6:31 AMIn all honesty I hated what they did to The Shining. I really did not feel it did justice to the book at all.
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Re: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Wed, October 21, 2009 - 6:46 PMWhat really amazed me about the Road was the absolutely perfect harmony between the language/writing style and the topic. It pulls you in and completely envelops you in the mood of the story, makes you look when you don't want to, and makes you cry (or want to) at the end. I did not at all expect it to be such a powerful little novel.
