McCarthy

All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, Book 1)
$15.00
Cormac and his writing and his books and the road is and out to and out-Faulkner Faulkner and but no talent and really like to use and does use and..

This. all. his books. are. like this. people who. are such. big fans of his. will be emabarrassed. (embarrassed should be spelled wrong.) like people who. read Ayn Rand. in their 20's and feel intellectual and will feel stupic to have read when they will be in their 40's. Does it is make sense and. is it post-modern.and. and. and. and. and.and.

Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies
$18.00
This is a great book if you are interested in politics or history and clears up a number of myths that have been generated from created political misperceptions.

The Edward R. Murrow: The McCarthy Years
$24.95
MCCARTHY WAS A COMPLETE IDIOT , MURROW VERY CAREFULLY PUTS HIM WHERE HE BELONGED OUT OF WORK.

The Crossing
$15.00
Billy Parhman captures a shewolf on his property. Instead of shooting it, he promptly decides to return it to Mexico. What follows is an odyssey of pain and laughter, sorrow and triumph, and all those other literary nouns people like to use to make a book sound important. In this case, of course, they all fit.

This is, of course, a Cormac McCarthy novel, and so this book is not going to pander to the reader--it's complex and dense, and like all of McCarthy's westerns, large chunks of dialogue are in Spanish. That's part of the joy in reading McCarthy--it's a tough, rigorous experience, but you come out the richer (if more depressed). What caught me off-guard is the humor here; there was some in BLOOD MERIDIAN and ALL THE PRETTY HORSES, but for the most part McCarthy's work is bleak and depressing; THE CROSSING had some laugh-out-loud dialogue, and even more that I could somewhat understand thanks to my four years of Spanish in high school. But make no mistake: the humor is a byproduct here, as is everything; McCarthy always remains true to his environment and his characters, which means that if someone has to die when you don't want them to, they're going to die. That may or may not be a spoiler here; read the book to see. THE CROSSING isn't McCarthy's best (I'd vouch for BLOOD MERIDIAN, and I wouldn't complain if someone said THE ROAD), but it's still a fascinating exploration of humanity...which yes, means a close, hard look at the bleak side of life. McCarthy doesn't lie: he only offers hope when there is some. And for Billy Parham, hope is a hard thing to find.