Chigworthy
04-26-2007, 05:45 AM
I was surprised when Oprah announced that she would be selecting Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" for her book club. All I know about her book club is that my wife's stepmom has all of the Oprah books, and not much else. This has caused me to be somewhat skeptical about the quality and value of Oprah books.
But I've been a fan of McCarthy for years. He doesn't write cunty fluff for soft housewives and delusionally "empowered" women. From Appalachian cannibals, scalping parties, and giant boulders crushing underage lovers, his books usually deal with dark subject matter.
Well after the humiliating purchase of a book with the Oprah stamp on it, I blasted through "The Road" like I have every other McCarthy novel. It's a great story, albeit different than other McCarthy work. Well I wanted to see what hardcore Oprah Worshippers had to say about the book. There was quite a bit of positive response. But fuck that, here's some of the fun stuff:
I read "All The Pretty Horses" a couple of years ago (actually, I listened to the audiobook), and really enjoyed it. Love the movie, too!
This bitch considers listening to an audiobook and watching the really bad movie as the same as reading the great book.
It actually made me cry in yoga class even 2 days after reading it...
Look at me. I'm sensitive and I do yoga. Yuck.
I just began reading the excerpt from "The Road." In transferring this material to your site, did someone drop all the punctuation? As a writer, I would be horrified if someone left out the pause of a comma in my work. Conscientious writers do all they can to make a read enjoyable – and where some writer’s might fail, their editor should succeed.
This idiot is a writer, yet she has never read a McCarthy novel before? He never uses punctuation you daffy bitch! Arguably one of the most important living American authors has written all of these great books that have been published multiple times and all of the editors since "The Orchard Keeper" was published in 1965 failed to notice that the punctuation didn't follow what we were all taught in third grade. Well it's a good thing you came along and noticed the error, you fuck.
About 5 or 6 months ago I was watching "The O'Reilly Factor" and Bill O'Reilly recommended reading "The Road". I immediatly went out and bought the book.
Yuck. Just disgusting.
My initial thought was, I love how the book is blocked into short paragraphs. This makes it easy to read in the bathroom, during commercials, between inings in baseball games...
I won't read a book unless it is easy to read in the bathroom.
Well, coincidently just one week ago we decided to buy some bags and get prepared for a hurried departure if necessary. Each of us are putting what clothes and necessities we would need in our own bags.
This mongoloid is talking about the post-apocalyptic setting of the book. Because the first thing you would need if the world ended was a bag full of your favorite outfits and makeup.
Anyway, there is at least twenty pages of this horseshit at:
http://boards.oprah.com/WebX/.f14eacd!DYNID=J2CPHJCF0SQFZLARAZ2SFEQ
But I've been a fan of McCarthy for years. He doesn't write cunty fluff for soft housewives and delusionally "empowered" women. From Appalachian cannibals, scalping parties, and giant boulders crushing underage lovers, his books usually deal with dark subject matter.
Well after the humiliating purchase of a book with the Oprah stamp on it, I blasted through "The Road" like I have every other McCarthy novel. It's a great story, albeit different than other McCarthy work. Well I wanted to see what hardcore Oprah Worshippers had to say about the book. There was quite a bit of positive response. But fuck that, here's some of the fun stuff:
I read "All The Pretty Horses" a couple of years ago (actually, I listened to the audiobook), and really enjoyed it. Love the movie, too!
This bitch considers listening to an audiobook and watching the really bad movie as the same as reading the great book.
It actually made me cry in yoga class even 2 days after reading it...
Look at me. I'm sensitive and I do yoga. Yuck.
I just began reading the excerpt from "The Road." In transferring this material to your site, did someone drop all the punctuation? As a writer, I would be horrified if someone left out the pause of a comma in my work. Conscientious writers do all they can to make a read enjoyable – and where some writer’s might fail, their editor should succeed.
This idiot is a writer, yet she has never read a McCarthy novel before? He never uses punctuation you daffy bitch! Arguably one of the most important living American authors has written all of these great books that have been published multiple times and all of the editors since "The Orchard Keeper" was published in 1965 failed to notice that the punctuation didn't follow what we were all taught in third grade. Well it's a good thing you came along and noticed the error, you fuck.
About 5 or 6 months ago I was watching "The O'Reilly Factor" and Bill O'Reilly recommended reading "The Road". I immediatly went out and bought the book.
Yuck. Just disgusting.
My initial thought was, I love how the book is blocked into short paragraphs. This makes it easy to read in the bathroom, during commercials, between inings in baseball games...
I won't read a book unless it is easy to read in the bathroom.
Well, coincidently just one week ago we decided to buy some bags and get prepared for a hurried departure if necessary. Each of us are putting what clothes and necessities we would need in our own bags.
This mongoloid is talking about the post-apocalyptic setting of the book. Because the first thing you would need if the world ended was a bag full of your favorite outfits and makeup.
Anyway, there is at least twenty pages of this horseshit at:
http://boards.oprah.com/WebX/.f14eacd!DYNID=J2CPHJCF0SQFZLARAZ2SFEQ