Hi,
I am a long time visitor on the BN forums. I was to pick up The Road in library at the end of MArch but half an hour before I arrived some other body picked it up, so I do not have the book for reference. Now after the Pulitzer announcement the line grew exponentially
Perhaps he finds anew audience now.
Anyhow I like CmC's economy of language and his way to handle the language freely but accurately ('foot the shadow' example etc.) I appreciate his sharp observation and poetry. I like less the punctuation game and violence and I struggle with the 'bible-bits'. I didn't yet come totally to terms with him as a writer.
ziki
I am a long time visitor on the BN forums. I was to pick up The Road in library at the end of MArch but half an hour before I arrived some other body picked it up, so I do not have the book for reference. Now after the Pulitzer announcement the line grew exponentially
Perhaps he finds anew audience now.
Anyhow I like CmC's economy of language and his way to handle the language freely but accurately ('foot the shadow' example etc.) I appreciate his sharp observation and poetry. I like less the punctuation game and violence and I struggle with the 'bible-bits'. I didn't yet come totally to terms with him as a writer.
ziki
Well, it was a fantastic book to read, but as I feared, to read it for May, even with it continuing thru May, was just too late for any real discussion since it was done in April. I think I will stick to start up discussion groups from now on. This was an overwhelming book to me and i really was looking to discuss it more. I read all the posts and there were many things I never saw discussed. More about feelings the book evoked, that scenes evoked, other things like that besides just the symbolism of each thing in it. Yes its full of symbolism but so much of the posts from april were just about trying to figure those out and my guess is a lot you never will and the author is not going to give away all of it, he is going to want to know what people came away from the book with other than solving the puzzles in it. They were good posts but theres so much more to the book and I dont see anyone new in here besides me. oh well, glad I read it anyway and thank you PaulH for at least discussing some with me, throwing some ideas out there but might as well have closed this club down this month 
If Oprah has him on anytime this month, i will check back then i guess, cause maybe those who have read it will come back, or others will come. LOL now i sound like I am on the road alone, looking for who has the fire cause all that were here before are gone!
If Oprah has him on anytime this month, i will check back then i guess, cause maybe those who have read it will come back, or others will come. LOL now i sound like I am on the road alone, looking for who has the fire cause all that were here before are gone!
vivico1 wrote:
Well, it was a fantastic book to read, but as I feared, to read it for May, even with it continuing thru May, was just too late for any real discussion since it was done in April. I think I will stick to start up discussion groups from now on. This was an overwhelming book to me and i really was looking to discuss it more. I read all the posts and there were many things I never saw discussed. More about feelings the book evoked, that scenes evoked, other things like that besides just the symbolism of each thing in it. Yes its full of symbolism but so much of the posts from april were just about trying to figure those out and my guess is a lot you never will and the author is not going to give away all of it, he is going to want to know what people came away from the book with other than solving the puzzles in it. They were good posts but theres so much more to the book and I dont see anyone new in here besides me. oh well, glad I read it anyway and thank you PaulH for at least discussing some with me, throwing some ideas out there but might as well have closed this club down this month
Vivian,
You are really funny..I laughed out loud when I saw the last sentence. Sorry we are all off elsewhere. I did respond to one of your other posts when I popped back in. The book is indeed powerful but left me and others feeling more than a bit uncomfortable. Maybe everyone just needed some comic relief and are off reading something light or new to get a break from the solemnity of The Road. The prose was beautiful.
See you in another forum. Ciao
Bentley
