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I started reading The Road soon after I picked it up at Fountain Bookstore while waiting for some cousins to arrive for dinner at a local restaurant, and I really had a hard time putting it down. Cormac McCarthy has a real skill at describing nature, especially desolate nature. And so this book, which is set in the US after some horrible armageddon, an apocalypse, is full of rich, but bleak, details on what . . . → Read More: Review: The Road, by Cormac McCarthy 
The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton, is a book that modern readers will perhaps find hard to appreciate. Not so much from the writing itself — Wharton is one of the masters of literary craft and this book won her the Pulitzer Prize for literature in 1921. Rather, modern readers, raised in an age of independence and the anti-hero, where cultural standards are routinely smacked down with a hammer, may just not understand . . . → Read More: Review: Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton 
All the Pretty Horses is the second book by Cormac McCarthy book I’ve read, and this author’s prose is like poetry. He really has a way with describing scenes of the countryside, the love of horses, and the tragedy of a man’s destiny within a blind, or indifferent, universe. The story focuses on the young John Grady Cole, who sets off on an adventure, on horseback, into Mexico with his childhood friend . . . → Read More: Review: All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy 
I really enjoyed The Green Man, by Kingsley Amis. It starts out as some sort of English comedy — a guy who owns a pub has a drinking problem, has health problems, has a marriage problem, has a mistress problem, and has children problems, then suddenly starts seeing ghosts. Of course no one believes him, since he’s probably drunk, under stress, or on medication, and it seems the more he tries to get people . . . → Read More: Review: The Green Man, by Kingsley Amis |
 
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