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December 20
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Peter
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All the Pretty Horses (Border Trilogy, Vol 1)
by Cormac McCarthy
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December 16
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Peter
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The Crossing (Border Trilogy, Vol 2)
by Cormac McCarthy
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read in December, 2007
Peter said:
"On par with Coetzee’s Dusklands and Life and Times of Michael K. And that’s about the highest compliment a book can get from me. Although he probably leaves us with as little tangible hope as Coetzee, the sense of gentle desolation McCarthy conve...more
On par with Coetzee’s Dusklands and Life and Times of Michael K. And that’s about the highest compliment a book can get from me. Although he probably leaves us with as little tangible hope as Coetzee, the sense of gentle desolation McCarthy conveys gives the loss that permeates the book an intangibly beauty. (In fact it’s largely about living with the intangibility of lost beauty.) At the same time it’s nothing less than devastating, all the more so because he never loses his steadfast commitment to the integrity of the story. In that sense it is a brutally honest novel. Though I don’t give much long-term value to broad generalizations, it’s hard not to come away from The Crossing feeling that other genres whose stories follow a more fanciful arc, provide more closure, or which inject magical realism into their novels’ internal history, are somehow taking the easy way out. Their authors inject a sort of artificial hope (which we readers complicity welcome). McCarthy in contrast offers no easy way out – and perhaps no way out at all....less
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December 02
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Peter
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Cathedral (Paperback)
by Raymond Carver
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Peter said:
"...an interesting portrayal of the many forms of tedious dysfunction in modern families and relationships. But the characters are so trapped in their own listless incapacity to change or act, it left me feeling lukewarm. But perhaps that's the point....more
...an interesting portrayal of the many forms of tedious dysfunction in modern families and relationships. But the characters are so trapped in their own listless incapacity to change or act, it left me feeling lukewarm. But perhaps that's the point......less
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November 11
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Peter
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Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics)
by George Orwell
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November 10
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Peter
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Cry, the Beloved Country (Paperback)
by Alan Paton
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Peter
marked as to-read:
Beloved (Paperback)
by Toni Morrison
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Peter
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Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology (P.S.)
by Eric Brende
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Peter
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The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by Barbara Kingsolver
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Peter
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The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey (Paperback)
by Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Aleida Guevara
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Peter
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Heroes (Paperback)
by John Pilger
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