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To: Rambi who wrote (69677)	12/13/2008 9:57:25 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 71178

I have written about him. blech I do not enjoy him. The Road was dismal. All The Pretty Horses wasn't bad- but Westerns? Why would I want to read Westerns? Give me good historical fiction in Europe, thank you very much. Tumbleweeds and guys with guns don't thrill me. To be fair, I'm not very interested in Hemingway either- that other "guy lit" writer. Give me Henry James or Austen any old day. Heck, I'd even rather read William James. I kind of liked this one: amazon.com

To: Rambi who wrote (69677)	12/13/2008 11:27:04 AM
From: koan	Respond to of 71178

>> McCarthy must be a man's writer. The men on SI who've read him love him, but I can't recall a single woman writing about his work. He doesn't appeal to me at all. However redemptive the main theme may be, enduring brutality and suffering isn't my idea of a good read.<< koan: Looking at his post again I can see what could be a glint of humor-lol. The book is entirely about deep parental love and that seems more a womans theme than a man's? To further the irony for me here, is that I read it last year when visiting my daughters. My older daughter had given the book to my younger daughter for a Christmas present-lol." And everyone in my extended family has read it. I read it cover to cover with only a few cat naps and place the book in the top five of all books I have ever read. The fathers deep love for his child, and the interaction between father and child, for me, and many I think, completely overshadowed everything else in the book. The book is about deep love. The setting is really just a broad brush background which the author treats accordingly as he never provides any details about what happened to the earth, or much else happening in the big picture of the background. I found it hauntingly beautiful. To each their own though. I disliked "Gone with the wind"-lol.