The Road is a 2006 novel by Cormac McCarthy. It's the story of a father and son on an arduous journey in a post-apocalyptic future America. Also, it's chock full of cannibalism. You may have heard of it because it was selected to be part of Oprah's Book Club a few years ago (Yay? Boo?). While I don't keep up with Oprah's Book Club selections, I have to assume this one was a bit out of the norm for her club. Even though I recommend the book, it should be noted that McCarthy's minimal punctuation style may frustrate some readers.Rating: 87%
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I started the movie the other day. It was too grey to watch for a grey afternoon in February.
Grey is somewhat of a theme in the book too. Not exactly something with the potential to be a "feel good" movie.
This is pretty much comedy gold.
I had an entire conversation with a friend last night about how this is what would happen to the world if Sarah Palin became president. You know, after she bombs Iran and starts nuclear holocaust (you betcha!). It was depressing.
Remember when we were in the same American literature class for like a day, and you let me read your copy of Blood Meridian but then I couldn't stay in the class and when I took it the next year Bourassa (that jackass) had replaced it with House of Mirth or Absalom, Absalom!" or some bullshit?
I sure got tired of talking about racism in that class.
Did you actually get to read Blood Meridian? It was quite good. Bourassa was a bit of a douche, but I read some good books in his courses.
Bourassa is a complete douche. I went back to STU to ask him for a reference in '05 and he was a condescending asshole even though I jumped through all his fucking hoops and got a B+ and an A in his 2 classes. Plus I had to submit multiple copies of every paper I ever handed in because he kept losing them.
He and Schutz were pretty much at opposite ends of the professorial responsibility/quality spectrum, and I still think of them often in terms of what to emulate and what not to emulate today.
I'll never forget when I read Tess of the d'Urbervilles for one of Bourassa's classes. He wanted the class to talk about what Tess would have been like in bed, whether she would have been passive or if she would have been a "screamer."
*lols quietly*
Tess would have been both, depending on who she was sleeping with. She was AWESOME!
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