tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3439823737924396912.post5399158454917843662..comments2023-02-28T00:51:06.240-08:00Comments on The Inside Cover: The Road by Cormac McCarthyBeccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04454844719358203405noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3439823737924396912.post-17534171799347558552008-05-08T15:42:00.000-07:002008-05-08T15:42:00.000-07:00Hi John! Thanks for the links. And, funny thing, I...Hi John! Thanks for the links. And, funny thing, I read your The Road review just after I had written mine. I loved your point of view on it. Plus, whenever I finish a book I enjoy I tend to stalk the author and read anything and everything I can find about them. Heh.Beccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04454844719358203405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3439823737924396912.post-77155842372671135902008-05-08T15:22:00.000-07:002008-05-08T15:22:00.000-07:00Hi there,As with the punctuation liberties in Blin...Hi there,<BR/>As with the punctuation liberties in <I>Blindness</I>, I appreciated the rationale behind it. I reviewed it <A HREF="http://bookmineset.blogspot.com/2007/06/readers-diary-278-cormac-mccarthy-road.html" REL="nofollow">here</A>, and I hope you don't mind, but I linked to your review as well.John Mutfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08730205221787092204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3439823737924396912.post-61678750560073022242008-02-19T11:13:00.000-08:002008-02-19T11:13:00.000-08:00Ah yes, but they ate already deceased humans. They...Ah yes, but they ate already deceased humans. They didn't murder and eat anybody, did they?<BR/><BR/>As for Suite Francaise, I don't think any woman would have liked being called cow-like back then either. It's a testament to Gabriel Corte's character that he would talk about his mistress that way when with his friends. I don't think Nemirovsky liked him much either.Beccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04454844719358203405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3439823737924396912.post-60981516194927989392008-02-19T10:36:00.000-08:002008-02-19T10:36:00.000-08:00It's a wonder that when surveyed most people say t...It's a wonder that when surveyed most people say that if there was no other food source available they wouldn't resort to cannibalism. And yet there are historic instances in which people did just that. The Donner Party is the most famous example in the U.S., but there are many examples in popular culture including the film "Alive," the story of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which crashed into the Andes on October 13, 1972. The survivors of the crash resorted to eating the deceased during their 72 days in the mountains. <BR/>I started reading "Suite Francaise," but I don't know if I'll finish it by the 29th. It has some very interesting language: "Gabriel Corte confided to his friends, something cow-like in her expression. I like that. A woman should look like a heifer: sweet, trusting and generous, with a body as white as cream." ~Something tells me that any modern woman wouldn't appreciate being called "cow-like."Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18432910645758618241noreply@blogger.com