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1.The Road (Oprah's Book Club) by: Cormac McCarthy March 28, 2007
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Published in 2006, Cormac McCarthy's THE ROAD has been among the most widely praised novels of the era, receiving numerous awards including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It has also been extremely popular with the reading public--something of a surprise, for it would be difficult to imagine a novel that is more relentlessly bleak than this one. THE ROAD presents us with a nameless father and son, the latter about ten years old, who have survived an unspecified environmental disaster and who are now traveling south in an effort to escape the ever-intensifying cold that seems to grip the landscape. The journey is horrendous: they push a grocery cart through a seemingly endless sea of gray ash beneath a gray sky, cold, wet, hungry, and very fearful of other people--and with good ... Read More

2.Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West by: Cormac McCarthy May 05, 1992
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I picked up this book by chance, was shocked almost from page 1, but could hardly bear to put it down for a moment. When it was over I felt limp, bruised and my eyeballs were throbbing. The grandiose Biblical style with its Semitic constructions (dissimilar items linked with "and" and "and") looks all set up to fall flat on its face, and yet is miraculously sustained without a seam: terse and eloquent, dark and shining. McCarthy's vision of the Old West as a vast moral Void where all traces of inherited meaning are lost and the compass spins insanely in all directions, where the most atrocious violence happens with a curious soundlessness as if in a vacuum, is horribly compelling and changes forever the way you think about American history. It's as though designed to illustrate ... Read More

3.The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, the Crossing, Cities of the Plain (Everyman's Library) by: Cormac McCarthy September 28, 1999
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very good and sparse storytelling; practical like the life on horseback must have been. two real tragic moments stand out: the she-wolf's death and the misshapen and life-battered dog at the end of the last novella.i agree with a previous reviewer that the wolf's death was an act of love and the only one in this trilogy; the dog's running off into the night is frightening as i believe the dog represented the future end for the solo cowhand. Gripping, thought-provoking,takes a mature and aware reader; don't look for a happy ending--look for insight into character, values and life itself.

4.Oil! by: Upton Sinclair December 18, 2007
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Though set in the California oil fields of the 1920s, the great Upton Sinclair's classic "Oil!" is as relevant and meaningful(aka "alarming" and "frightening")today as it was when it was written more than 80 years ago. The characters are great, well written and well developed, coming off the pages in living technicolor. You get to know these people, care about some, empathize with few and dispise others. But the issue, the real isue, is the buying of government and greed. Greed with a capital "G." Read with John Grisham's latest, "The Appeal," (Judicial "justice" being bought and paid for in Mississippi--fiction there, truth in Alabama and all states where supreme court judges are elected), and looking at the tremendously obscene amounts of money spent on judicial, congressional ... Read More

5.All the Pretty Horses by: Cormac Mccarthy June 29, 1993
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I really enjoyed this novel, although it's probably more highly praised than it deserves to be. You can tell its serious literature because of the general lack of punctuation and unconventional composition. McCarthy's writing style is likely to be off-putting to some, but there is a lot to like about this novel. While novels that are branded (rightly or wrongly) as works of serious literature generally have something to say, they often don't have a story to tell. This is something that I really appreciate about McCarthy as an author. There are issues and themes that he clearly wants to explore in his fiction, but he builds his novels (at least the one's I've read) on the foundation of a compelling story. Ultimately, the theme of this novel reminded me a lot of No Country for Old Men. From my perspective, ... Read More

6.Suttree by: Cormac Mccarthy May 05, 1992
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I wish I had the ability to describe just how stunningly good this book is. The prose approaches perfection. I rarely ascribe true and unrelenting genius to writers, but I will make an exception for Mr. McCarthy. My favorite opening sentence of all time... "Dear friend now in the dusty clockless hours of the town when the streets lie black and steaming in the wake of the watertrucks and now when the drunk and the homeless have washed up in the lee of walls in alleys or abandoned lots and cats go forth highshouldered and lean in the grim perimeters about, now in these soothblacked brick or cobbled corridors where lightwire shadows make a gothic harp of cellar doors no soul shall walk save you."

7.Child of God by: Cormac McCarthy June 29, 1993
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A waste of beautiful prose and dialog. Disturbing for the sake of disturbing. Lacking any of the emotion that has made the disturbance in McCarthy's other novels lead to insight and in many cases, redemption.

8.Atonement by: Ian McEwan November 27, 2007
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Atonement is an extremely beautiful story about how differing perceptions of a single event can affect the lives of those involved, whether negatively or positively. This book is told in three parts and each part is from three different perspectives. The story begins in 1935 and is told from the viewpoint of the 13 year old Briony. Briony witnesses an event involving her older sister, Cecile, and the gardener, Robbie, that her young brain does not understand. Briony decides that Cecile would never commit such an indecent act of her own accord; therefore, Robbie must have forced Cecile into the situation. Briony later witnesses an assault on her cousin and names the lewd Robbie as the perpetrator. Briony is unwaveringly believed in her account of the tale and Robbie is imprisoned. Part two ... Read More

9.No Country for Old Men starring: Javier Bardem, Rodger Boyce, Josh Brolin, Barry Corbin, Beth Grant directed by: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen March 11, 2008
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I first wrote my Amazon review of the book because, after watching this movie, I was interested to see for myself how much of the screenplay actually came word-for-word from the book. Although many parts of the book, No Country for Old Men, appear in the movie, don't cheat yourself by missing out on the story in both media. I mentioned, The Godfather, because I made a point of reading the Mario Puzo book after watching that movie. As always happens, the movie had to trim away scenes and characters but the heart of the story remained intact. The Coen brothers had a lot less cutting to do from the source material in making No Country for Old Men. Regardless, the movie and the book both stand up well to repeated viewings and readings.

10.Cities of the Plain by: Cormac McCarthy May 25, 1999
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I read this final volume of the "Border Trilogy" because I had read the first two. I was massively disappointed with the plot. It is far more pessimistic and dark than the first two volumes, and can leave the reader depressed. Yes, indeed, the language is as outstanding as ever, and one can hear the authentic speech of people in the particular place and time, but personally, I found that to be another reason to find the plot depressing: the more you feel for the characters, the more you want them to come out of the story at least somewhat intact. All I can say without giving away too much is that those of us who feel compelled to finish this set of books need to get ready for a serious downer.

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