eric | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 29 2007 | books, Oprah Winfrey, thepugetnews, Cormac McCarthy
Whoa. Oprah Winfrey has selected Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" as her latest book of the month. Just yesterday I was saying that I planned on reading it. I guess it'll only be the second time I read an Oprah selection afer it became an Oprah selection. The prior one was "Beloved" by Toni Morrison, which was haunting and incredibly well-written.
Quoted: The latest book club selection is a despairing account of a boy and his father lurching across the landscape of a post-apocalyptic world.
- eric | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 29 2007 | news, Tournament of Books, Thomas Pynchon, Cormac McCarthy, thepugetnews
So now it really is official, Thomas Pynchon's "Against the Day" is permanently out of the Tournament of Books and has claimed yet another another reading victim. 3 out of 4 of the people assigned to read the book didn't even finish it. That's not exactly a fair shake when you're an author notorious for exploding the form of contemporary fiction. I think the judges need to make it all the way through before they can weigh the books on the merits of their scope of vision and achievement.
At least Pynchon finally "lost" to a good challenger. I really plan on reading that Cormac McCarthy book later this year.
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