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There's an free advance screening of The Road for LibraryThing members who live in the Detroit and Philadelphia areas: http://www.librarything.com/blog/2009/11/free-movie-passes-to-road-in-detroit.php Cross posted in Books vs Movies, ...

There's an free advance screening of The Road for LibraryThing members who live in the Detroit and Philadelphia areas: http://www.librarything.com/blog/2009/11/free-movie-passes-to-road-in-detroit.php There are advance screenings on Nov. 15 and 19 for those in Detroit or Philly. The rest of ...

... The Lost City of Z April Fiction: Jailbait Zombies, All the Pretty Horses Nonfiction: none May Fiction: The Road Nonfiction: Go Down Together: the True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde June Fiction: Here, There Be Dragons Nonfiction: Columbine, Arctic Grail J ...

... of Sarajevo - Steven Galloway (9/18/09) reread for bookgroup 103. The Reader - Bernard Shlink (9/25/09) 104. The Road - Cormac McCarthy (9/26/09) 105. Labyrinth - Kate Mosse (9/26/09) 106. Sharp Teeth - Toby Barlow (9/27/09) 107. A Fraction of the Whole - Steve Toltz ...

... still is? do any good books end up on the bestseller lists. the most recent one i recall is Cormac McCarthy's The Road

... fact, it doesn't appear to have a touchstone. Ah, well...seems to be out of print. Too bad, I always called it a Canadian ON THE ROAD... #12--Try Auster's NEW YORK TRILOGY and IN THE COUNTRY OF LAST THINGS. Terrific reads.

>60 - I had a similar experience with The Road. I could only read it in short doses, but when I put it down, it really stuck with me!

If you weren't already aware, Cormac McCarthy's book The Road has been made into a movie. It's coming out around Thanksgiving, and they're inviting LibraryThing members to come and view it, and then participate in a Q&A with the director! It's a great chance to see a film adaptation of a ...

In the town and the city, or even on the road, if you want to see visions of Cody or remember that good blonde (you know, the Mexican girl called Mag) you can't rely on notebook and journal entries you'll just have to pull your camera out and take a Pictur ...

... and closeted in some mysteriously evocative pandora's box of wonders, which has happened to me only four times this year: The Road, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, The Sea Came in at Midnight, and Last Vanities. I'd add The Master and Margarita but that book is so complex as to elicit ...

... if you’re in the right frame of mind. Also, in anticipation of next month’s film release, I read McCarthy’s The Road and found it to be, as advertised, unremittingly bleak. What was unexpected was that it was of a far lesser quality than was his Blood Meridian (which I think ...

... Christmas Story, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Peace Like a River, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Hiroshima and The Road. If you have read some of these, do you agree or disagree, and why? 3. The novel mentions many references to games and things that happen in a child’s experi ...

OK, that list was way too long! I've deleted it. If anyone wants the alphabetized list, tell me and I'll send it to you.

7| And the winner is... (Booker / Pulitzer) (1) Cormac McCarthy – The road 8| The new world (American classics) 1. John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men Possibilities: Henry Fielding - The history of Tom Jones

... completely forgotten everything about it I'll count it as unread. It's in the house. I plan to read it one day. 8 On the Road - I've picked it up in bookshops a million times. Can't get beyond the first page. I suspect I'd probably have enjoyed it in my teens but I doubt I'll ever ...

and newer ones if not mentioned yet: Atonement The Road Time Traveler's Wife Marley and Me Life of Pi is also in development... Also, World War Z will be out relatively soon... and The Five People You Meet in Heaven was a made for TV movie

Weirdo-boy Perkins, how very strange to hear of him here. Todd, you're a never-ending source of befuddlement. Oh God, On the Road...ouch...please, please go read some Gregory Corso (Mindfield is a good starter) or Allen Ginsberg (Howl or Kaddish, for starters) to demystify the ...

... Theroux which I haven't yet got round to reviewing but which is an excellent post apocalyptic tale much better than #25 The Road by Cormac McCarthy which sucked (Jack London's The Road is more fun) #26 Drood by Dan Simmons who should be sued by Dickens and Collins may they rest in peace ...

... : Finished: *The School For Husbands (book 14) *The Other Woman (book 15) *Change of Heart (book 16) *On The Road (book 17) - Yale syllabus *Amanda's Wedding (book 18)

... Bazaar and the like. As it is also a bookstore, I couldn't resist to buy two paperbacks as well (yeah ! payday !) : The Road by Cormac McCarthy and Big Fat Love by Peter Sheridan. I really shouldn't, but, you know how it is ...

... list vrs the "Reader" list. There are only have seven in common; American Genius, A Comedy Gilead Cloud Atlas The Road Austerlitz The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Middlesex

... went into the service after flunking out of college. Read LoTR and the Gormenghast Trilogy. Read the obligatory beats, On the Road, The Dharma Bums, the Legend of Jack Duluoz (serialized in Playboy, along with Hugh Heffner's twenty three part philosophy). Howl, A Coney Island of the M ...

Hey, Mark! I ended up not reading The Labyrinth (and am curious about what you didn't like). Instead, I finished The Road. Wow! That's such a stark, somber reality Cormac McCarthy presents, isn't it? I like those books that make you think about the choices you might make, and who you ...

... I think this is one time that the movie was so good, and had such great actors, that it outshines the book. I started The Road the other day, but then immediately lost it. Don't think it was intentional, but didn't pick it up again. That may be because I realized that I've already read ...

jintster- Very interesting list! I'm saving Midnight's Children for a possible group read, (right Bonnie?). I loved The Road and the 1st half of Perfume and I have Secret River waiting in my tbr.

Well, Jinster, I started The Road this morning, so will have some comments for you later in the week. :-)

... by Bulgakov Cloud Atlas by Mitchell Darkness at Noon by Koestler Perfume: Story of a Murderer by Suskind The Road by McCarthy Secret River by Grenville Silas Marner by Elliot I,' Claudius by Graves

... did these books become so popular? I also stopped reading A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Eggers and On the Road by Kerouac, both of which I get a hard time for. I would like to say, however, that I liked White Teeth, Special Topics in Calamity Physics and The F ...

On the road 1- On the road 2- God's bits of wood - started Oct 1 2009-finished Oct 4 2009 3- Wild swans 4- The feast of the goat 5- A short history of tractors in Ukrainian - started Oct 5 2009-finished Oct 7 2009

New month, New Pimp Your Inventory Topic. :) I have not one, but two copies of The Road by Cormac McCarthay. I found them both at a garage sale today. I also found an incredibly battered edition of Pride and Prejudice, which is free with another mooch. To get The Road by Cormac McCar ...

... fenegger 3. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami 4. Sharp Teeth by Toby Barlow 9/27/09 5. The Road by Cormac McCarthy (9/25/09) 6. French Milk by Lucy Knisley 7. Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer 8. The Ten-Cent Plague by David Hajdu ...

... on any of these: The Alchemist, Bingo Palace, Family Matters, The Gathering, A Mercy, Midnight's Children, The Road, A Thousand Splendid Suns.

I don't usually read this genre, but the one I loved in this category was The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

... back. You should check it out here. Definitely consider reading The Road. It is a terribly depressing, and in some parts downright disturbing, book, but a good read. McCarthy's terse prose annoys some people, but I find it suits this ...

... Bruce Catton Best U.S. novel: Dr. Sax by Jack Kerouac (It is a tremendous improvement on his much more famous On the road

I have mixed feelings about The Road. I liked it, but I found several of the scenes very confronting. I don't want to spoil the book for anyone else, but I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. McCarthy has a gift, and is well regarded for his "terse" prose, but he also paints a rather ...

The Road is, to put it simply, a real downer. Of course it is nowhere near that simple, and I really found it uplifting, but that's me. I wouldn't put someone through it. I completely forgot about this thread, and was talking to someone about this book at work today who is reading it and wants ...

Hmm, your post reminds me of how much tastes differ karenmarie. Rockinrhombus wouldn't recommend The Road to anyone but you would. And I wouldn't hesitate to recommend The Virgin Suicides to anyone - I thought it was the most beautiful (if tragic) book, and the perfect example of how really ...

>198: No fair, myquillisquick! 20 titles to tempt me?! I have The Road, and have been avoiding it, so it's nice to know that it's one of your favorites. Loved The Time Traveler's Wife myself. I for sure want to read Sharp Teeth; I'm just waiting for it to come out in paperback. I like ...

... but that it left an impact. I suspect it has a lot to do with where you are in life and things (compare for instance with On the road, which I haven't read and don't feel that tempted by either, simply because I suspect it's "too late" for it and it'll just annoy the heck out of me), but i'm ...

... figure out who the characters were or what was going on, and I didn't have the motive to figure it out. Picked up On the Road which is not quite as good as I expected it to be. I guess it's famous because it embodies a literary style and a cultural time and place that many of us are ...

started on the road by kerouac, read by matt dillon. i like the way he reads, he is perfect for the book. there have been a couple of sections were he sounds like he just wants to be elsewhere but for the most part he reads well. the book i had never read. its alright. hard to take it too ...

... - Novel by Shauna Cross 2009_OCT_09 The Private Lives of Pippa Lee - Novel by Rebecca Miller 2009_OCT_13 The Road - Novel by Cormac McCarthy 2009_OCT_16 Where the Wild Things Are - Children's book by Maurice Sendak 2009_OCT_16 Amelia Earheart - book by Elgin L ...

Welcome, mookie! I'm going to be reading The Road real soon. I'm not that fond of dystopian fiction--they make me too anxious--so have put this one off, but have heard good things about it, and already bought the book, so will have a go. Glad to hear you liked it.

I thought Jimmy Corrigan was such a treat of a read :-) The Road is somewhere on my TBR. Maybe you haven't read as many books as you usually do, but you've read good ones!

... Kryptonite by Darwyn Cooke, and Tim Sale 14. Superman: LAST SON by Geoff Johns, Richard Donner, Adam Kuber 15. The Road by Cormac McCarthy 16. sTORI Telling by Tori Spelling 17. The Armageddon Rag by George R.R. Martin 18. Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin 19 ...

Welcome, mookie! Did you enjoy The Road? It's one I love, I have to admit--if you did, you should read his Outer Dark as well :)

im on the last disk of the road by cormac mccarthy. hoping for a strong finish because the book has been somewhat dull. very different from what i expected.

From grelobe's library there's a book I've been meaning to read for quite some time: On the Road by Jack Kerouac.

... view=PortiaLong&tag=abandoned&collection=-1&shelf=list&sort=tags&sort=tagsREV Most notably: Dianetics Burmese Days On the Road The Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

... A Memoir by Jeannette Walls Suite Francaise by Irène Némirovsky The Book Thief by Markus Zusak The Road by Cormac McCarthy I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb White Oleander by Janet Fitch Is that too many? I couldn't eliminate any because I ...

Loved The Road by Cormac McCarthy (not by Jack Kerouac, foolish touchstone) and The Book Thief, both among the best I've ever read. Always surprised when some others don't like them. Started The Manual of Detection byJedediah Berry and Sailing Home: Using Homer's Odyssey to Navigate L ...

... Once it was Peak Oil, then Tudor historical fiction. Around last year I OD'd on novels about people who were starving (The Road, 1984, A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Poisonwood Bible, etc...) and just HAD to cleanse my palette with some lighter stuff. So I read Chocolate, some Jane A ...

Ha. The Road by Cormac McCarthy listed in #4 actually touchstones to On The Road by Jack Kerouac, which is who i thought of when i read: ...impacted peoples lives by their writing or by just being themselves. Edited to fix ...

Cormac McCarthy. His most recent one is The Road, but he has written a lot of good ones, including All The Pretty Horses and the rest of The Border Trilogy, Blood Meridian, and No Country for Old Men.

I never understood how The Road by Cormac McCarthy could have been a "great" book. It was hard to understand and because of the lack of modern grammar and dialogue, I had a hard time understand it! I know that it was post-apocalyptic and what the general idea was, but I found it way too ...

... Waugh 7) Prize winners: 5/9 i) The Sea - John Banville (Man Booker 2005) *** msg55 ii) The Road - Cormac McCarthy (Pulitzer 2007) ***1/2 msg71 iii) Skellig - David Almond (Whitbread Children's Novel of the Year Award & Carnegie Medal 1 ...

Spent the last two days reading most of On the Road after putting it off for a while; now I'm done with it. I liked it a lot more than I thought I would. The dialogue wasn't my favourite, and that's being generous, and certain terms I didn't particularly like (i.e. "dig"; used a bit much for my ...

20. On the Road by Jack Kerouac Yech...

thanks, billiejean. glad you enjoyed them. you have a great day, too. my day's kinda glum, because I'm trying to learn how to play "Wonderwall." :) Yeah, some of the Star Wars stories were pretty good, as was the first trilogy, even though the idea Ewoks armed with wooden spears defeating ...

polutropos, On the Road was going to be my next suggestion. Guess I'll have to go with Paul Auster's New York Trilogy instead. :)

... ds. OK, now, what else is in my book here, previously unmentioned???? Wow, I can't believe it has not been mentioned: On the Road by Kerouac.

Three months later, my next update! March 20. The Shack by William P Young 21. The Road by Cormac McCarthy 22. Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz 23. Generation Dead by Daniel Waters 24. Horus Rising by Dan Abnett 25. The Host by Stephenie Meyer 26. Masquerade by Melissa de ...

... had read seven: 1984 Animal Farm The Handmaids Tale Farenheight 451 Lord of the Flies Never Let Me Go The Road The one that effected me the most. To the point where I couldn't even complete it because it made me feel sick was The Road. I think I appreciated Animal Farm ...

... in a government endorsed battle to the death. The Stand by Stephen King is a post-apocalyptic survival novel, as is The Road by Cormac McCarthy. City of Thieves by David Benioff is about 2 Russians trying to survive an interesting mission in WWII.

... the Right One In out of my Top 5 of the books I've read this year: 1. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey 2. The Road - Cormac McCarthy 3. About a Boy - Nick Hornby 4. City of Thieves 5. Lamb - Christopher Moore

Just read my first The Road...a great book...kinda like a grown-up version of The Giver

... least partially a rhetorical question. Ian, just a year or two ago wanted to see what all the fuss was about with regard to On the Road, read it for the first time (I have no idea how old Ian is, but apparently old enough not to be convinced at the irresponsible recklessness touted by Kerouac) ...

... lucky you wind up a wage slave somewhere, and go is the first syllable of your dreams. Ask Ian, he'll tell you. If you like On the Road you might want to give The Dharma Bums a try.

You have to read ON THE ROAD before you're twenty. That first flush of youth. After that, you start picking apart the prose, the dreadful pseudo-poetic, hipster writing. William Burroughs was the only one of the Beats I have any respect for an an artist. Kerouac became the figurehead of the Be ...

I hated On The Road, to me it was a bit contradicting of freedom, they treated women, for example like sex objects and I kept thinking about how it would be completely unacceptable for a WOMAN to go out and drink and have sex etc (and do all the things that the characters do to eptomise their ...

Started On the Road yesterday, and am enjoying it. Light and leisurely reading.

... Shedding Light on Philip Pullman's Trilogy His Dark Materials by Tony Watkins; p 23 Didn't want any spoilers. The Road by Cormac McCarthy; p 14 Again, From Colony to Superpower got in the way. Navigator (Time's Tapestry Book 3) Stephen Baxter; p 223 Stopped reading it ...

... but it's fun to read. Again, its vast cast of characters is driving me nuts!! Middlesex was meh for me, too. I loved The Road very, very much. Gilead is somewhere around my house. I haven't read it yet.

... Franzen -- literary darlings right now, but lacking in any works that could be classified as "timeless." Works like The Road or ambitiously ballsy like Seven Dreams will be remembered because of their stylistic audacity and emotional sincerity. Given McCarthy and Vollmann write about ...

... really do not get that book or why people love it. I could not see the fuss over Middlesex, it was meh. But Gilead and The Road I liked. Oh well.

... Education of Henry Adams 42. The Promised Land 43. The Crucible 44. Little Children 45. Boston Adventure 46. On The Road 47. One Boy's Boston 48. The House of Sand and Fog 49. Sophie's Choice 50. Waiting

I seriously need to get into the works of McCarthy. I have The Road and The Book of Dave by Will Self as a two book-ended post-apocalyptic novels.

... Eden would fit into his list perfectly - I expect they were left out because so much has already been written about them. On the road and The feminine mystique sound like wishful thinking. It would be nice to think of them as books that changed America, but with hindsight (and seen from the ...

... People by Dale Carnegie 11. The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care by Dr. Benjamin Spock 12. On the Road by Jack Kerouac 13. The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan Have you read them? Check out more posts and join the discussion at http://www.prog ...

... not be to your taste, but here's some stand-alone books that i'd recommend: Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler On the Road by Jack Kerouac Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim By David Sedaris Red as Blood by Tanith Lee Candide by Voltaire Desolation Road by Ian McDona ...

Loved The Road and did not like Slaughterhouse Five at all. What'd you think?

... I think a lot of people judge McCarthy on All the Pretty Horses (the weakest book in the Border Crossing trilogy) or The Road (very different kind of McCarthy book)and have not been fully exposed to his whole catalog. I don't know anyone who read Blood Meridian who didn't say: WOW!!! BT ...

just finished perfume by patrick suskind. now, though it may not qualify as mystery, I am starting the road by cormack mccarthy.

... Waugh 7) Prize winners: 3/9 i) The Sea - John Banville (Man Booker 2005) *** msg55 ii) The Road - Cormac McCarthy (Pulitzer 2007) ***1/2 msg71 iii) Skellig - David Almond (Whitbread Children's Novel of the Year Award & Carnegie Medal 1 ...

... Carlos Zafon - about 1/3 through again about 500 pages. This book doesn't leave any sort of impression on me good or bad. On the Road by Jack Kerouac - Got through his first trip (of three) across America to the West and haven't been bothered to read about the next one?

... like Walter Mosley, Louise Penny and Andrea Camilleri, it can be modern literature like Kafka on the Shore, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, and The Elegance of the Hedgehog, it can be classic literature like Pride and Prejudice, The Master and Margherita, and The Three Mu ...

I've read a lot of post-apocalyptic stuff. Also, I have read a lot of McCarthy novels and The Road is not typical, although I disagree with your characterization. I don't think McCarthy set out or intended to write a post-apocalyptic novel but because it is set in an end-of-civilization ...

... McCarthy. I bought, and to trump this thread's original purpose, never even read before I traded it at paperbackswap.com, The Road.

My list of books to look at/buy is now in my library under, appropriately enough, Wish List.

01. Out Stealing Horses - Per Petterson (12/23/08) 02. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lin See (12/24/08) 03. The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga (12/26/08) 04. Anne of Green Gables - L. M. Montgomery (12/30/08) 05. Strange as This Weather Has Been - Ann Pancake (12/31/08) 06. T ...

I have both On the Road and Catcher in the Rye on the TBR tower, intending to read both of them sooner rather than later. As I am now far from an angst ridden teenager - I will look forward to discovering what sort of reaction I have to them. 133. The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield ...

... where they were denied their own culture. Of course, I'm glad such expose's exist. I'd have to say that I preferred The Road simply because, above all else, I felt the relationship in it between the father and son.

Hi Solla, Greatly enjoyed your comments on Blood Meridian. I prefer it, by a hair, to The Road, and allow me to briefly explain why. BM (er, maybe I should just spell out "Blood Meridian" instead, eh?) took the Western trope (Cowboys: white people, the "good" guys v. Indians, the "bad" ...

I do agree - though it also fits up to recent novels. I read On the Road and Catcher in the Rye once I was out of the teenage stage and loathed them. Oddly I can still read teen fiction that is aimed at teens and love it.

... Antsy Does Time; Pride and Prejudice; Anna Karenina; The Pirates! In an Adventure with Ahab; American Gods; The Road; Amphigorey Again Category Progress The Big Blue Wet Thing: 1/9 Vignettes: 2/9 "You Have to Read This!": 1/9 Parts of a Whole: 1/9 Hahaha!: 3/9 Way Back ...

... More by Roald Dahl (finished 05-06-09) 5. Redwall by Brian Jacques 6. The Eight by Katherine Neville 7. On The Road by Jack Kerouac 8. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (finished 05-17-09) 9. In Awe by Scott Heim 10. Island by Aldous H ...

... books!). I gave her The Blind Assassin, All the Pretty Horses, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, On the Road, Any Known Blood, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and The Reader. From Candice I borrowed: The Book of Negroes The Remains of the Day Cry, the Beloved ...

... hangs about the town. In the end he seems to drift into death at the judge's hand. Well, I've read some comments about The Road as being dark or depressing, but I didn't really find it so. Blood Meridian, though, seems truly dark and fatalistic. At one point the judge refers to war as "the ...

... of these there are a few downers - Fantasy i may love, but Mervyn Peake I hated - it was very long hard struggle. On the Road I also had massive problems with - after discussion with friends we've decided that you have to read this before a certain age - I was about 24 which is too old ...

... the noticeable increase in post-apocalyptic tales (some satirical, some not), such as: The Pesthouse by Jim Crace (2007), The Road by Cormac McCarthy (2006), Our American King by David Lozell Martin (published on 9/11/07, satirical) eta Oryx and Crake (2004, satirical) I'm tempted to ...

... going nuts trying to get the yard and flower beds in shape. Then I promised to bake cakes..... Unlike mckait, I loved The Road so am looking forward to a review of All the Pretty Horses. It's sitting on my shelves just waiting to be read.

... lined up. 7) Prize winners: 3/9 i) The Sea - John Banville (Man Booker 2005) *** msg55 ii) The Road - Cormac McCarthy (Pulitzer 2007) ***1/2 msg71 iii) Skellig - David Almond (Whitbread Children's Novel of the Year Award & Carnegie Medal 1 ...

... Damned, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises, The Bell Jar, Tropic of Cancer, The Plot Against America, The Road, All the Pretty Horses, Breakfast at Tiffany's

#173 - Awe, mckait......I felt there was hope implied at the end of The Road. Now I'm hoping that I didn't misconstrue the ending. I have The Book Thief on hold at the library. Seems many people are reading it and I am looking forward to as well.

I'm halfway through: Through The Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco On the Road by Jack Kerouac The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

... sounds like a book I would like to read and I'll see if it is available at my library this weekend. It sort of sounds like The Road maybe not the premise but the bleakness. Do you think there are any similarities?

40. Gather the Weeds by Patrick Kilgallon Intense... just pure concentrated intensity. When I read The Road sometime ago my only comment about it was I thought it too dark and gloomy from page one to the last. Gather the Weeds makes The Road seem like a happy little fairy tale ...

... Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham Category: Dystopia and Apocalypse I've renamed the category as this and The Road are more about apocalyse than technically dystopias. This book was a complete revelation. I was expecting to find it dated and corny, but it seemed so modern. Th ...

... when he met up the the proto-beats - though he had far more talent than the gaggle of them put together. I think on the road grabbed its audience - for worse rather than better - sans Ginsberg, however.

I found an airline boarding pass stub for a flight to Tibet in a paperback copy of On the Road. I prefer old books to new ones. They often have a story to tell apart from what is printed inside them. Used bookstores are more interesting than stores for new books.

Well, you have convinced me to read The Road at the earliest possible opportunity. What an evocative review. I will lay in a supply of flowers and cheerful movies in preparation...

... keen to read March - especially now after reading your post. And I agree with your thoughts on The Shadow of the Wind, The Road and The Curious Incident. All three books very special in very different ways. I have had my eye out for Haroun, I might try a bit harder to find it now. ...

>210 I love your descriptions and citations from The Road. I picked it up partly to see what all the fuss was about, not expecting much, but it has had a lasting haunting effect on me due to its incisive prose. Thanks for sharing.

... Book Thief is NOTHING like The Road imho One is filled with hidden beauty and hope, and the other with obvious and implied horror.. just imo remember... I hated The Road x 10

... I think) Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (based on comments from this group) Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson On the Road by Jack Kerouac The Unbearable Lightness of being by Milan Kundera The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett Books I had never heard of before, and know ...

... a movie? City of Thieves 12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie? They have already done it--The Road 13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character. What? 14) What is the most "lowbrow" book you've read as an adult? Bridge ...

... the most books by? Thomas Hardy, Douglas Coupland or Armstead Maupin 2) What book do you own the most copies of? On the Road and I have never read it 3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions? No (what’s a preposition?) 4) What fictional ...

On the Road by Jack Kerouac comes to mind... I got to read a page portion of the original scroll several months back. I wasn't all that impressed by it, but that's just me.

ER- nice work on the Road. I totally see where you're coming from with the whole anti-chat show endorsed-books thing - we have the equivalent in the UK in the guise of Richard&Judy and their annoying stickers can be found over all sorts of books these days. And I, similarly, find myself rejecting ...

... out of my price range! The only other McCarthy I've read is Blood Meridian and I'd recommend it, by a hair, over The Road. The Road moves amazingly fast, though, if you're looking for a quick read. Did you see the movie version of No Country? I thought it was great, but not having ...

#38, I somehow missed your description of The Road until now. I completely agree with your assessment! ficus.. if you read the sequel, and remember to.. will you let me know what you think? I seriously really, really wanted The Expected One (clearly, since I ended up with 2 copies. ) I was ...

... In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray 85 Madame B ...

... In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray 85 Madame B ...

... work touchstones LT searches for the words and then lists works with those words in the order of popularity. That's why On the Road shows up as the default - it has more copies on LT than The Road.)

I like McCarthy's writing , but The Road just blew me away (although my husband hated it). If you like the beginning, you'll probably like the book, although it is indeed bleak. That's a great way to describe it. One nice thing about a book-reading rut is finally finding a book that is super ...

... author actually does a pretty good job reading his own work too. other elusive creatures: war and peace by tolstoy, the road by cormac mccarthy

... "most popular" work that uses the words in the phrase. For example, touchstone for The Road by Cormac McCarthy brings up On the Road by Jack Kerouac first - because On the Road has more copies than The Road. Not surprisingly, edited to fix a touchstone plus add a sentence for ...

... And I honestly didn't like anything else enough to list as a "Best Read," although I read much more. I did actually like The Road by Cormac McCarthy but was very put off by the ending.

... Injured Party Up a Road Slowly Charlotte's Web The Book Thief (no surprise, as others have mentioned it too) The Road Never Let Me Go Wickett's Remedy and I know there are more ... A few of these I listened to in audio, and in one or two cases, the talent of the ...

... currently on my wish list or already on my tbr pile. After having read All the Pretty Horses I'm curious about reading The Road also, which wasn't the case before as I was turned off by the whole post-apocalyptic theme, but it's been suggested to me a few times now and I liked your review ...

... 1. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey 2. Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac 3. The Shining - Stephen King 4. The Road - Cormac McCarthy 5. About a Boy - Nick Hornby 6. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald 7. Everything's Eventual - Stephen King 8. A Long Way Down - Ni ...

... Words for Sorrow by Giles Blunt Agatha Christie by Gillian Gill The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene The Road by Cormac McCarthy – nice hardcover with dust jacket World without End by Ken Follett – big score! Hardcover with perfect dj Mason and Dixon by ...

... Northern Ireland by Martin Fletcher msg. 9 7) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick msg. 11 8) The Road by Cormac McCarthy msg. 13 9) Turn of the Screw by Henry James msg. 15 10) Last and First Men by William Olaf Stapledon msg. 17 11) Middlesex by Je ...

21- The Road by Cormac McCarthy 4.5/5 Nearly halfway done and it's only March... looks like I underestimated by aiming for 50. At least by being this far on I can slow down and take time to read some of the longer books I have...

... the tough spots. I was glad that the majority of the really disturbing parts were concentrated near the end. So, unlike The Road, which I found disturbing throughout, I was able to read most of this one without the intense feelings invoked by the end. On a completely different note, I ...

Disturbing, haunting, depressing ... The Road is my pick. Check out my blog: http://barneysbookblog.blogspot.com/

... enjoyed it. :oD next up for me: No Country For Old Men, I love the film adaptation and I enjoyed Cormac McCarthy's The Road so I've been looking forward to this one. (edit)No Country For Old Men touchstone won't work :((/edit)

... Golding 20 The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens 21 We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver 22 The Road by Cormac McCarthy 23 A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz

... Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, and The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell. Others I'd recommend are The Road, The Glass Castle, Water for Elephants. Good luck and have fun.

... Patricia Briggs 20. Changeling by Delia Sherman 21. Magic to the Bone by Devon Monk Working on The Shack and The Road now. I realized I just have to restart McCarthy's piece. There's no semblance of, "Oh, I read this before!" It's just a narrative rich enough that I may as well ...

I don't think there is an optimal age for The Road at all - I'd recommend it to anyone. Are you thinking of On the Road instead - that I certainly think needs to be read before you reach 20.

Poetic justice. I read Kerouac's On The Road and was not impressed. I'd got the book from bookmooch.com, and it was in excellent condition. I just sold it on eBay for £4.

... - Earnest Hemingway 34. Lod of the Flies - William Golding 35. The Last Temptation of Christ - Nikos Kazantzakis 36. On the Road = Jack Kerouac 37. Rabbit, Run - John Updike 38. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 39. Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein Is that all?!? W ...

... - Earnest Hemingway 34. Lod of the Flies - William Golding 35. The Last Temptation of Christ - Nikos Kazantzakis 36. On the Road = Jack Kerouac 37. Rabbit, Run - John Updike 38. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 39. Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein Is that all?!? W ...

... Earnest Hemingway 34. Lord of the Flies - William Golding 35. The Last Temptation of Christ - Nikos Kazantzakis 36. On the Road = Jack Kerouac 37. Rabbit, Run - John Updike 38. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 39. Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein Is that all?!? W ...

I read it a few years back at the same time as On the Road, an obivous connection, and From Here to Eternity, a not so obvious sonnection but an interesting comparison! Do please say how the students reacted. Snow days!!! It was sunny and 70 in the desert yesterday.

... bring the median down. On Hold: The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon Through the Looking Glass Lewis Carroll On The Road by Jack Kerouac Stinkers of 2009: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco Notes: asterisks rating: 1 = poor 5 = excellent R = reread

... lined up. 7) Prize winners: 2/9 i) The Sea - John Banville (Man Booker 2005) *** msg55 ii) The Road - Cormac McCarthy (Pulitzer 2007) ***1/2 msg71 Next one up will be Remains of the Day. 8) Plays: 0/9 Still haven't touched this ...

On the Road only works now, I think, as a piece of history. That's true for most of the work from "The Beats," with the possible exception of Allen Ginsburg's poetry.

... when you're older". That reflects my feelings on the topic. I think you pretty much have to be a teenager in order to LOVE On the Road. Otherwise you can enjoy it, sure, or get the appeal it had when it was released, but not love it, I don't think.

Finished Talking Heads 2 a collection of monologues, starting On the Road today

The Road by Cormac McCarthy. It inspired me to give my son a hug.

... by Cormac McCarthy James Buchanan by Jean Baker Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad I really enjoyed McCarthy's The Road, got a bit bogged in another, but read No Country for Old Men for my 999 Challenge list. WOW! What a ride this novel is--starting out simply and keeping it ...

11. On the road - Jack Kerouac What a terrible book. It bored me. After three travels through the United States, I got the message. Not recommended.

I agree with many of the books mentioned above!: The Road (interesting premise, but the execution was horrible) Water for Elephants (what part exactly is supposed to be so good?) The Great Gatsby (... yeah... and?) Foucault's Pendulum (you've gotta be kidding-- I'm not wading through ...

... the label "speculative fiction" never catch on? Seems like it could encompass an awful lot (maybe that's why?) I loved The Road by Cormac McCarthy, but it never occurred to me to think of it as science fiction. Kurt Vonnegut, William Gibson, Robert Louis Stevenson Dr. Jekyll and Mr ...

... 2009 is a book a week. I think I've been reading a book a week since childhood. So far this year I've read: January: The Road by Cormac McCarthy The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman Divine Justice by David Baldacci The Camel Club by David Baldacci The Finder by Colin Hoffman ...

... at least went to a new home. I have to say that I gave thought to the recycle bin~ I hated them that much... Hated The Road too. I am still in intense therapy from it.. or should be anyway :P

... had to read Journey to the river sea.A book more suited to children in my opinion. Now for those I inflicted on myself.On the road,Interview with the vampireand the biggest load of drivel ever award goes to Pride and prejudice. I didn't finish the self inflicted ones by the way.

I totally agree with you on On The Road.I couldn't finish it either.It was very continuous without any real plot.

I absolutely hated On The Road and Interview With The Vampire.So dull!

>51, 54, 55: :-( I'm also bummed about that. I have The Road on my TBR pile, but now I guess I'll put it off for a long while until I forget the ending. I've got The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time in the same status because someone mentioned the ending last year. BTW, ...

... should have been a spoiler alert, but I didn't want the idea of the spoiler to ruin either of your readings of The Road. It's such an excellent book, and plot is not exactly a big part of it, so you should still be able to read the book and get a ton out of it. Edited for typo.

... hint." Moby Dick "So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines." On the Road "He turned upon me, his eyes suddenly amazed and full of pain, with a bewildered, startled, suffering face, as though he had tumbled down from a star. Neithe ...

... see. Moab is my Washpot because I love Mr. Fry. I started and couldn't stand The Memory Keeper's Daughter. Read The Road by Cormac McCarthy in one day.

I have a copy of The Road in my TBR pile. Maybe I'll bump it up and read it this weekend. It's getting great reviews here on LT.

... welcome, though I know plenty of other folks would have recommended that one to you. Okay, if you were so moved by The Road, I would suggest trying the first of the Border Triology, All the Pretty Horses. I found that book and that series just as moving and enjoyable. Whisper1....t ...

Terri That's quite an affirmation! I'll add The Road by Cormac McCarthy to my list.

11. On the Road (audio book), by Jack Kerouac (****) Category: from The Modern Library's 100 Best books On the Road is definitely a novel of a cultural era, deeply rooted in the beat culture that Kerouac helped create. The main character, Sal, tells of his journeys with Dean Moriarty, ...

Hi everybody! I am very intrigued by The Brutal Art, Booksloth, and dianestm you read some of my favorites - Rebecca, The Road, The Catcher in the Rye, Tess of the d'Urbervilles. I wish I had time to read that many books. I agree with Booksloth, dianestm - please tell us which you ...

... shows, the contestants and the false portrayal A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole - 3 stars, completely mad The Road by Cormac McCarthy - 4 stars, heart wrenching story of a father and son with a surprising end Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger - 3 1/2 stars, very confused and ...

... tearsure in this calculation are: On Chesil Beach,Ian McEwan Special Topics in Calamity Physics,Marisha Pessl The Road,Cormac McCarthy Nineteen Minutes,Jodi Picoult Water for Elephants,Sara Gruen The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel,Diane Setterfield The Book Thief,Mark ...

Nice to see you enjoyed The road. I think it was one of my best reads last year. I'm an Ian McEwan fan, I should find Black dogs somewhere :)

... characters' interactions, I will try that other book some of you mentioned, and see what I think of his other work. #45 The Road I picked up this book not expecting much but in return I received a night's worth of spellbinding reading; the prose is sparse but the author manages to convey ...

Recovering from Cormac Mcarthy's The Road with the help of The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God by Etgar Keret. Short, sharp, wonderfully odd little stories about nothing and everything. Just the thing for post post-apocalypse.

... I really liked her YA book Gifts and there are now a couple of others in this series that I've still to read. The Road - I read it when everyone was hyping this book and wasn't that taken. I prefer more hope in my post-apocalyptic reading. Titus Groan - I'll have to read this, I ...

... 607:127:4.9% Uglies:Scott Westerfeld:2614:128:4.9% Special Topics in Calamity Physics:Marisha Pessl:2853:141:4.9% The Road:Cormac McCarthy:7503:381:5.1% Nineteen Minutes:Jodi Picoult:3013:153:5.1% Water for Elephants:Sara Gruen:6567:338:5.1% The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel: ...

... the Nation (Vol. I) by M.T. Anderson * 7. 8. 9. #6: Fantasy/Futuristic 1. City of Bones by Cassandra Clare * 2. The Road by Cormac McCarthy * 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. **There will be some cross-over here with the YA Lit category #7: Drama 1. Gem of the Ocean by August Wils ...

... target=new>here; LT review here. The Road by Cormac McCarthy - I stuck this on my Short Books list in place of the Le Guin title. As was the case with that other book, I found it intellectually ...

#22 & 23 Yes pleasantly busy :) #24 That's funny, I have no superstition about the #13 but had mislabeled The Road as 15 instead of 13- corrected and all set now :)

... Letter, Huckleberry Finn, The Pilgrim's Progress, Heart of Darkness, Jane Eyre, Midnight's Children, Macbeth, On the Road, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Crime and Punishment, Invisible Man, The Grapes of Wrath, A Room of One's Own, 1984, Wide Sargasso Sea, One Day ...

I'd suggest The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Most people I know that have started to read Haruki Murakami have begun with The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. I think that's a good place to begin although my favorite book of his is a book of short stories called The Elephant Vanishes.

... angst is cool (well, that's what my teenager years were like - sitting in a dark room, listening to The Smiths). I think On the Road is in a similar position - I tried to re-read that last year and it just didn't interest me, whereas when I read it when I was 16, it was the most exciting ...

Okay so I am badly in need of updating my postings here lol. Here are my thoughts on 13. The Road. This book hooked me from the very first page more strongly than most books do which is appropriate because after reading I truly think overall this may have been the best book I've read. The ...

Let's be better to Cormac McCarthy All the Pretty Horses and The Road (2009 release) are both movies. Bram Stoker's Dracula has been adapted numerous times. Beowulf (makes one vomit, really) some Italian guy did the Canterbury Tales: there is much nudity, but it is all in the ...

12 Truman Capote said of On the Road, composed on a roll of paper fed through a typewriter: "That's not writing, that's typing."

About the books you mentioned... Love in the Time of Cholera was my aunt's all-time favorite book. The Road was an outstanding read and a book I often recommend to others. Night is also an excellent read. I found Middlesex so-so, but others really loved it. However, these are ...

... read since Jan 1: 1. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins 2. The Other Side of the Island by Allegra Goodman 3. The Road by Cormac McCarthy 4. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

... title in a post) 10) How to Win Friends and Influence People 11) The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care 12) On the Road 13) The Feminine Mystique There is also a list of 100 more books at the end of the book. There were several on that list I was not aware of. All in all, I ...

... self: Write fake-ass Holocaust memoir.) It's all about the dollars. On a more practical note, when buying things like The Road and the new translation of Anna Karenina, I had to work hard to make sure I didn't get one with Oprah's Seal of Approval (TM ) on it. That's all I need is more ...

... not opposed to zombie apocalypse though which I should warn you just in case that's not your cup of tea. #3 & 4 I finished The Road this weekend actually and I was blown away by it. I really enjoyed his writing style; it was sparse but very evocative and I agree about the powerful effect of the ...

#12: I finished No Country for Old Men the same day I started it! I think I liked the subject matter of The Road more, but the writing is equally as good in No Country for Old Men. I haven't seen the movie yet, but I definitely will! Let me know when you finish it and we can talk :)

Cormac McCarthy 1. The Road 2. No Country for Old Men 3. Blood Meridian 4. All the Pretty Horses 5. The Crossing 6. Cities of the Plain 7. Child of God 8. Suttree 9. Outer Dark

#10 I really loved The Road as well. I took No Country for Old Men out of the library too, my bf is reading it now (he finished The Road first) and then I'll read it. Please let me know what you think when you finish No country; I saw the movie already which was good but I bet the book will be ...

>"Post-apocalyptic" was the word I was searching for, thanks! Could you also call The Road 'speculative fiction' or does that mean something else? I've called books like Kindred by Octavia Butler 'science fiction' but really there's not much "science" in it. And Connie Willis's books don't ...

... I wanted to see a few other opinions about it -- guess I could try the touchstone, couldn't I? {grin} It was a lot like On the Road, which I read last year -- I just love the guy's wry style of writing. Reading his works feels like conversing with a friend. His abrupt changes in tone can ...

Book #9: No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy After I raved about The Road, DrNeutron recommended this book as another excellent offering by McCarthy. I am so glad that I followed up on this, because I loved No Country for Old Men just as much as The Road. McCarthy's ...

Looking for these titles for one of my reading challenges... your help would be much appreciated :-) - On the Road by Jack Kerouac - The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath - The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe Thanks and a happy mooching 2009 to all :-)

... A classic! Need I say more? Seven Up by Janet Evanovich I can't help myself...I LOVE the Stephanie Plum books The Road by Cormac McCarthy A modern classic. McCarthy creates a post-nuclear war in which a man and his son have to fight freezing temperatures, hunger, and ...

On the Road by Jack Kerouac. Should have read it for my classics book club...just could not get into it.

... of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas VIII. from The Modern Library's 100 Best books (5/9 complete) 1. On the Road (audio book), by Jack Kerouac (****) 2. The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck (*****) 3. A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess (****1/2 ...

The Beats 1. On the Road by Jack Kerouac 2. The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles 3. Tales of Ordinary Madness by Charles Bukowski finished 4/6 4. Off the Road by Carolyn Cassady 5. Junky by William Burroughs finish ...

... (Sept.) 4. W. Somerset Maugham - "Of Human Bondage" (Mar.) 5. Cormac McCarthy - "The Road" 6. A. M. Homes - "The End of Alice" 7. Kingsley Amis - "Lucky Jim" (Mar.) 8. Muriel Spark - "The Prime of Miss Jean ...

Hi Cait86, thanks for the great review of The Road. I have added this to my TBR mountain. I have never read any from McCarthy so I am looking forward to this one.

#91, #93, etc: Kerouac - well, On the Road, anyway - really, really works if you read it in your teens, while hitchhiking. It doesn't hold up quite so well if you re-read it decades later in your suburban home... (...and, yeah, Kerouac falls off steeply after OTR.)

I wasn't impressed with On the Road - as you can no doubt tell from this. Here's a book to show off - The Life and Works of Jahiz, edited by Chalres Pellat. I apparently have the only copy on LT. Um, as I also ...

... Patricia Highsmith, 1980's 165. Justine, Lawrence Durrell, 1969 166. Dr. Zhivago, Boris Pasternak, 1968 167. On the Road, Jack Kerouac, 1967 168. The Midwich Cuckoos, Wyndham, 1960's 169. Voss, Patrick White, 1990's 170. The Once and Future King, T.H. White, 1960's 171 ...

... Patricia Highsmith, 1980's 165. Justine, Lawrence Durrell, 1969 166. Dr. Zhivago, Boris Pasternak, 1968 167. On the Road, Jack Kerouac, 1967 168. The Midwich Cuckoos, Wyndham, 1960's 169. Voss, Patrick White, 1990's 170. The Once and Future King, T.H. White, 1960's 171 ...

... Gaiman Coraline - Neil Gaiman Heart-Shaped Box - Joe Hill Fragile Things: Short Fictions And Wonders - Neil Gaiman The Road - Cormac McCarthy Gentlemen Of The Road - Michael Chabon

... * Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell * Pere Gonot by Honore de Balzac ( Group Read - Literature) Wish List: * The Road by Cormac McCarthy * The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett * The Rip by Robert Drewe

... and young adulthood were with eccentric, irresponsible, dangerous parents but who came through it with flying colors. The Road by Cormac McCarthy about a post-apocalyptic world. A man and his son are trying to reach the coast and their conversations and experiences are riveting. I ...

... Williams. My favorite fiction book was much harder to pick, so depending on my mood in trying to pick one, I'd choose The Road by Cormac McCarthy, Stealing Athena by Karen Essex, The Quiet American by Graham Greene, or Killer Angels by Michael Shaara. The Road ...

... by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Inferno by Dante Morvern Callar by Alan Warner Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs On the Road by Jack Kerouac Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov Atonement by Ian McEwan Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri Alright! I'm looking forward to seeing ...

... TBA Contemporary Fiction (2000-present) 1. A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini - FINISHED January 10/09 2. The Road – Cormac McCarthy - FINISHED January 3/09 3. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides 4. No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy - FINISHED January 16/09 5. The ...

... by Paul Auster The Bear Went Over the Mountain by William Kotzwinkle Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry The Road by Cormac McCarthy The Mystic Arts of Erasing all Signs of Death by Charlie Huston I thought I didn't have too many winners this year, but when it ...

... Vision by Tricia Sullivan, April, in English 5. Gears of War: Aspho Fields by Karen Traviss, June, in English 6. The Road by Cormac McCarthy, October, in English Computers and culture 1. Microserfs by Douglas Coupland, January, in English 2. The Long Tail by Chris And ...

... Fisher Never Let Me Go – Ishiguro The Lay of the Land – Ford A Thousand Acres – Smiley Jazz – Morrison The Road – McCarthy Anna Karenina – Tolstoy Howards End – Forster On Beauty – Smith An Equal Music – Seth Ground Beneath Her Feet – Rushdie Fury ...

... year. Generally I prefer fiction, of all types. Favourite topics (for reading, not in reality) are war, apocalypse (eg The Road by Cormac McCarthy), mysteries and thrillers, but generally I will read anything that sounds interesting. Since joining LT last year I've vastly increased my ...

... Gilmore (Gilmore Girls) Book club list: 1. Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom 2. On The Road by Jack Kerouac 3. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger 4. Nineteen Eighty four by George Orwell 5. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult 6. Amazing Adven ...

Two separate problems. The Road by Cormac McCarthy is showing the cover of On the Road by Jack Kerouac. I'll bet this is related to the same reason the touchstone for McCarthy's The Road always comes up as On the Road. (LT looks for the most popular first rather than the exact match.) Bloo ...

... to be a thread there, scifi/horror/mystery?!?!?! Best Contemporary Fiction Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman The Road by Cormac McCarthy Blaze by Stephen King (Of course!!) A Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier The Traveler by John Twelve Hawks (A favorite ...

... difficult as I had a great reading year. I have to narrow down my best 14 to 5-no- I can't do it- I'll leave it at 7. The Road by Cormac McCarthy The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak Conceit by Mary Novik Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill Mister ...

... – P.D. James **My Review** 5 - The Road - Cormac McCarthy 6 - Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood **MyReview** 7 - V ...

... Oscar Wao—Junot Diaz 3. The White Tiger—Avarind Adiga 4. Never Let Me Go—Kazou Ishiguru 5. The Road—Cormac McCarthy 6. The Year of Magical Thinking—Joan Didion 7. Bel Canto—Anne Patchett

... choices through number 76 above: With 6, the current leader: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Close on, with 5: The Road by Cormac McCarthy With 4, the first little pack behind the leaders: Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishi ...

... by Neil Gaiman 8. The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly 9. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand 10. The Road by Cormac McCarthy 11. The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue 12. Hamlet by William Shakespeare 13. Supreme Courtship by Christopher B ...

... Doomsday Book Fifth Business A Human Being Died that Night: A South African Story of Forgiveness The Leopard The Road The Devil in the White City: Murder, Madness and the Fair that Changed America The Tenderness of Wolves Olive Kitteridge

I'm reading On the Road by Jack Kerouac. A friend is going through a Beat phase and needs someone to talk to about what he's reading. I'm enjoying it immensely -- likely because I'm all Shakespeared-ed out after this past semester. I was a little nervous after his last choice: the ...

... out the other two. So far my favorite reads are, in no particular order: The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara The Road by Cormac McCarthy Independent People by Halldor Laxness The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls The Hamish Macbeth Mystery Series by M.C. Beaton

Again, try to limit yourselves. ;o) The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz The Road by Cormac McCarthy The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen The Girl With No Shadow by Joanne Harris

I read The Road by Cormac McCarthy last week. Everyone knows this is excellent, I came late to the party. Now reading Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman - don't know why everyone else loves it, I do not. Also carrying in my purse for unannounced reading opportunity: How to Love Yo ...

I'm thinking hitchiking, road-story ... possibly On the Road? I haven't read it but this would be the only guess I have because I don't think I've read the quote either ....

... 98% of it is for classes. Very little leisure reading. There's nothing worse than really wanting to dive into that copy of On the Road but knowing that you have at least one play by Shakespeare and two novels sitting on your desk at any given time, all to be finished by the week's end.

8. Short Books The Road by Cormac McCarthy Nebula Awards Showcase 2003, ed. by Nancy Kress Born to Exile by Phyllis Eisenstein Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie Murder After Hours by Agatha Christie Changeling by Delia Sherman The S ...

... National Book Critics Circle for NF, 2007 4. Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson - National Book Award, 2007 (1/01/2009) 5. The Road by Cormac McCarthy - Pulitzer Prize, 2007 6. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie - Best of Booker, 2008 7. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell - shortlisted ...

... the...lovelies...maybe i'll see something, now that i am older, that i missed before....;->...or not... hey, too On the Road was the BIBLE for ...Hippie People..when i was in College...i liked it for the Humor and the What-The-F***K attitude...Literature? Feh!...but it's still Great.. ...

... my grain. rejoice, good gravy! What more diverse reading interests can there be?! I guess we'd have to plop On the Road in there to make it any weirder.

... easy this year. These are the five (in no particular order) that I gave 5 stars to (and which weren't a re-read): The Road No Country for Old Men Small Island The Reluctant Fundamentalist Half of a Yellow Sun

... Lois McMaster Bujold (I could put just about any of her Vorkosigan books in here, but Memory is by far my favorite.) The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Edited to say: probably none! I found out that Dharma Bums isn't technically the sequel to On the Road.

The books I've completed for my 50-Books Challenge are listed first in the order read. The remaining books include: Books I've bought and haven't read yet, some books I want to finish, plus books recommended by other LT-ers. I was going to wait until Jan. 1st to begin, but I got snowed in, so m ...

... itzgerald 5. A Separate Peace by John Knowles 6. The Stranger by Albert Camus 7. Walden by Henry David Thoreau 8. On the Road by Jack Kerouac 9. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs EXTRAS: Hamlet by William Shakespeare The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger The Fountainhead ...

... others above, I too would like to see more Tom Wolfe, more Vonnegut, as well as Hunter S. Thompson, Kesey, On the Road, A Confederacy of Dunces and a reprinting of Evelyn Waugh. I would also like to see FS complete J.G. Farrell's Empire trilogy by adding Troubles ...

... derglass) - Ella Minnow Pea: Mark Dunn (pretty much everyone) - Remake: Connie Willis (ronincats) - The Road: Cormac McCarthy (tloeffler/bdb) - I Know This Much Is True: Wally Lamb (girlunderglass) (got) - Flat Earth News: Nick Davies (FlossieT) ...

Great lists! I want to read The Sea, The Road and The Blue Flower myself. Good luck!

Finally got my review of On The Road up on my blog - see here.

38) On the Road by Jack Kerouac ***1/2 Kerouac takes the stylistic elements of Miller's Tropic of Cancer and uses them to write a road atlas love story. The nameless man's love for the land, Sal Paradise's love for Dean Moriarity. These two themes cycle over and over like a droning washing ...

I like the idea of A Confederacy of Dunces. How about In Cold Blood or has that been done? On the Road deserves it too. I still say that Maugham is way underserved by the Folio Society.

... will change this list. Fiction: No Country for Old Men Small Island The Reluctant Fundamentalist The Road Half of a Yellow Sun Non-Fiction: Enrique's Journey The Zookeeper's Wife Three Cups of Tea About Alice Infidel

... Wall. Award Winners: I'm having difficulty here but will go with The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara. The Road and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay were in strong contention. Edmund Crispin: The Long Divorce. Just for Fun and Bookclub: From Dead to Wors ...

... would be okay). However, I'd love to see Didion or Kesey get the treatment. And I'm surprised they didn't tackle On the Road yet. I think it's a way overrated book, but it's pretty canonical. As long as we're talking so-called "counter-culture" books, more Vonnegut (Breakfast of C ...

... Shaara - Pulitzer Prize Winner of 1974 Independent People by Halldor Laxness - Nobel Prize for Literature 1955 The Road by Cormac McCarthy - Pulitzer Prize Winner of 2007 The Quiet American by Graham Greene The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls The Wordy Shipmates ...

41. The Road Gripping, bleak, raw, tender, at times frightening. My favorite aspect of the novel was McCarthy's spare yet poetic prose that didn't use chapter breaks, apostrophe marks, etc. The sparse dialogue matched the decimated landscape, and it was equally powerful.

... by Jhumpa Lahiri The History of Love by Nicole Krauss Shining At The Bottom of The Sea by Stephen Marche The Road by Cormac McCarthy The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood( a reread but well worth it!) A Journey to the ...

... in order. fiction 1. Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson 2. Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton 3. The Road by Cormac McCarthy 4. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 5. The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson 6. The Road Home by Rose Tremain 7. The Red Ten ...

... amusing, but the sequel, Be Cool, was rubbish. I'm currently reading The Universe Maker by van Vogt. Got bored with On the Road, although I'll go back to it. The Universe Maker is completely bonkers. Van Vogt's 800-word skeleton is in plain view, and you can even see where he's padded ...

... fascinating and funny. The fact that you have it in your TBR pile indicates you won't grossed out by it. I'd also nudge The Road.

Welcome to the group--and for bringing an impressive reading list with you. I loved The Road and have Blood Meridian sitting on the table to read.

... dated. And not exactly politically correct in some places. Now for November's entry in my 2008 reading challenge, Kerouac's On the Road, which will finally bring me up to date.

... 2005) Beloved – Toni Morrison (1988 Pulitzer, Fiction) W;t – Margaret Edson (1999 Pulitzer, Drama) The Road – Cormac McCarthy (2007 Pulitzer, Fiction) The Blue Flower – Penelope Fitzgerald (NBCC, 1997) Everything that Rises – Lawrence Weschler (NBC ...

... by One in the Darkness – Deirdre Madden (Northern Ireland) The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy (India) The Road – Cormac McCarthy (US) Beloved – Toni Morrison (US) The End of the Alphabet – C.S. Richardson (Canada) Carpathians – Janet Frame (N ...

Okay, I'll nudge The Road as well, but with this caveat. Save it for a day when you're already feeling depressed and want to wallow in misery. Don't spoil a really happy cheerful day with this one. And please keep in mind that dylanwolf is depressed, very, very depressed.

I've always contended that you have to be under-20 to read and enjoy ON THE ROAD. After that, you start noticing the (myriad of) deficiencies in Kerouac's writing. Students of literature will shudder at the utter lack of discipline and discrimination he shows, the silly word choices, the ...

... how unsuccessful my idea to read a classic novel each month this year has been. I still have two books to read - Kerouac's On The Road and Rand's The Fountainhead - but I don't expect to be blown away by either. And of the ten I've read, I'd like to read more of Powell's A Dance to the Music ...

... Thin Air, which captured most of the men's imaginations, but not all the women were thrilled with it. I considered The Road, which I'm still reading, but it's so relentless and bleak. While I admire it while I'm reading it, my worry is that too many new-to-books people will be turned ...

... Gil Courtemanche Life of Pi - Yann Martel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime - Mark Haddon The Road -Cormac McCarthy Female writer: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See I would also have picked The Kite Runner and The Things They Ca ...

Choose The Road and you'll be set to fully savour and appreciate your next tin of canned fruit (or is that can of tinned fruit?). Actually your next swig of fresh water will seem pretty good. Cormac McCarthy's bleak, post-apocalypse book is a very good read. I'd nudge that. I'd throw my two ...

I'm going to nudge Water for Elephants and The Road. I loved both these books for completely different reasons. They will both appear on my best books of 2008.

... read it. The Kite Runner? Repeating my previous post - disappointing for me. The rest - not read yet although The Road has been waiting on my TBR for over a year!

And I LOVED The Road by McCarthy. Just goes to show we are a varied group of readers here.

... Barney Hoskyns, the writer of Hotel California so I will keep that one in mind too. RidgewayGirl - I have indeed read On the Road many years ago. I like the sound of The Man with the Golden Arm though - I'd never even heard of it. It sounds like it might fit vaguely into a ...

On the small chance that you haven't read it, how about On the Road? Or would The Man with the Golden Arm fit?

... by Naguib Mahfouz The Password of Larkspur Lane by Carolyn Keene The Road to Coorain by Jill Ker Conway The Road by Cormac McCarthy Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon

2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books) 2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf) 2006 March by Geraldine Brooks (Viking) 2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar) 2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad HarperCol ...

... Penguin has released 200 'great books' for very cheap with very basic book covers fiction and non fiction. I bought home On the Road.

... e> 2. The Declaration by Gemma Malley 3. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 4. The Road by Cormac McCarthy 5. Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham 6.Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood 7.The Give ...

The only Cormac McCarthy book I've read is The Road and I thought it was wonderful. It's sad, tragic, devastating, and brilliant. I really need to find a place in my never ending, ever growing TBR pile for another McCarthy book. Great review, Jill!

Top five for July-Sept. in no particular order: 1.Into the Forest by Jean Hegland 2.The Road by Cormac McCarthy (audio version) 3.Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson 4.The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 5.In a Dark House by Deborah Crombie (audio version) Honor ...

Is it On the Road?

... was one-sixteenth black (sorry, no touchstone) by Nadine Gordim, Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl and On the Road by Jack Kerouac. However, I'm making myself finish my homework before I start reading, but it's really, really hard!

richardderus, various posts: It sounds (re: #57) as though you came to The Road with inflated expectations, and that they may have overshadowed your appreciation of the novel's modest merits. First of all, it's a work of popular fiction. Pretentious, perhaps, but fairly simple and ...

... thread seems to be pretty well played out, so I now feel the need to weigh in: I was one of those who wasn't enamored of The Road. It just flopped down in front of the reader and said "here I am take me or leave me but faGawdSake don't you dare analyze me or you'll get mad." At least, one ...

#108 dchaikin - The Road is probably my best read of the year and possibly of the last several. I just finished it a month ago and plan to re-read it before the end of February at the latest. It is one of the most powerful books I have ever read. Our bookclub discussed it at our last meeting ...

I loved The Road so much when I read it last year. I still think about that story. They're making it into a movie - not sure how that will work. Great reviews!

... four books Severian’s rise to Autarch from the guild of Torturers, a relic of an outdated governance system. 112. The Road, Cormac McCarthy, 2007 Magnificent story of a father-son relationship in a horrifying post apocalyptic environment. Surprisingly touching and hopeful.

... crazy bad guys. I would love to discuss the ending of Blood meridian with you, so I hope you read it soon. I think The Road has been my favorite so far.

I read six, which I think is a personal record for one month, not sure. It helped that I enjoyed them all. 1. The Road by Cormac McCarthy - I gave it 5 stars because it took over my mind for a bit and really got me thinking 2. The Secret River by Kate Grenville - because it's just an ...

14 The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Have some warped weakness for books about the end of the world as we know it. Read a lot of comments about this and was really looking forward to it. Wasn't disappointed. Gripping, loads of atmosphere, stylistically impressive, and the love between father and son ...

I finished 6 books in August and my top 3 were: The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I found this book absolutely stunning. Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammett. I loved his descriptions of how his mind works and how he sees numbers and words. The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen ...

... one that I can really get into and feel satisfied with Karenmarie~ If you look at my (June??) list you will find that The Road was my pick for that month... and I had it up against some other really good books. Now my question. Am I the only one here that liked the book I Am Legend ...

... different plants. 58. Desolation Angels My first real exposure to the Beats. I'm not sure how this compares with On the Road but what I found most fascinating was Kerouac's obvious sense of disillusionment. What I found most moving was his obvious hunger for life and transcendence, ...

Exact match first would be wonderful. Every time I touchstone The Road, the default that comes up is On the Road. Annoying.

We're getting lots of really great lists here now, aren't we? Special thanks, karenmarie, for telling me a bit more about The Road. I've been eyeing up Cornac McCarthy's books for years now. I hear lots of good things about them but never quite buy any as I always have a nagging thought that ...

... The Fire and I don’t think I’d enjoy it nearly as much without having re-familiarized myself with The Eight. The Road by Cormac McCarthy Absolutely stunning. I wasn’t particularly looking forward to reading this book because it just sounded too depressing - about a man and ...

... not so much about spirituality as about the power of delusion - in a beneficial way. I'll add one more book to this pile - The Road by Cormac McCarthy. ETA - jlelliott, I just checked your profile and I now see I'm a day behind in recommending The Road!

A Thousand Country Roads by Robert Waller The Road by Cormac McCarthy Off the Map: Western Travels on Roads Less Taken by Stephen Hume Travels With My Aunt by Graham Greene Around the World With Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis

I just finished reading the The Road . The story really touched me, it reminded me of the time when I was 8 years old, and my father was very sick and it was during our vacation, far away from our house and from my mom. I thought my father was going to die. Anyway, I liked the way ...

I just finished reading the book The Road by Cormac McCarthy a minute ago. Wow...what a story !!! I dont know yet what to read next, I am still waiting for the books I have purchased from the internet. .

Finished The Road last night. I'm with karenmarie (post #6). Powerful book. Strange therapy, but to get over The Road I immediately started a parenting book, like five minutes later. So, I'm currently reading Siblings without Rivalry by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish. If anyone is interested, ...

... Frankly though, I think he'd have to use Rohypnol to get me to say yes. That time in my life is done, blessed be. Re: The Road...no one can fault Mr. McCarthy on his signature style. It suits some sorts of storytelling down to the ground. It's terse, powerful, economical and either to ...

... waiting for the books that I have purchased online which has not arrived yet. Maybe while waiting , I might start reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy. .

... and clearly correct opinion." >175 dchaikin, I tend to enjoy post-Apocalyptic novels, and was favorably inclined towards The Road. Likewise I enjoy Cormac McCarthy books. In the end, I preferred Earth Abides and A Canticle for Leibowitz to The Road. I can't preecisely put my ...

... It was the idea of "not plot driven" that brought Woolf to mind for me. I'm sure Cormac McCarthy is much grittier and that The Road is much darker than the luminous To the Lighthouse. I guess I will have to check it out and make up my own mind if I would enjoy it. Unless... #159 ...

I was very interested in all the posts about The Road by Cormac McCarthy - I just started it about 30 minutes ago at the end of my lunch hour at work. I'm encouraged. It's for my September bookclub meeting.

... Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 by Simon Winchester Arthur and George by Julian Barnes The Road by Cormac McCarthy It's lovely to have such a wonderful selection to choose from. I must confess I do go to my shelves to hover and gloat with glee. It's ...

>146 MusicMom41 - As amandameale says in #150, McCarthy's style in The Road isn't much like To the Lighthouse. But, I would respectfully disagree that if you like Woolf you wouldn't like The Road - I love both books, they're just very different. Actually, I would think if you like Woolf's style ...

If on a winters night a traveler Take(s) the Cannoli, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs To the Lighthouse On the Road, Run!

... Lindqvist 2008OCT24 The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne 2008NOV07 House - Ted Dekker 2008NOV14 The Road - Cormack Mc Carthy 2008NOV14 Twilight - Stephenie Meyer 2008NOV21 Awful Ends - Philip Ardagh 2008NOV26 Defiance: The Bielski Partisans - Nec ...

... Comes by Sidney Sheldon Under the Banner of Heaven by Jonathan Krakauer Where Dreams Begin by Lisa Kleypas On The Road by Jack Kerouac

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe On the Road by Jack Kerouac The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells World's End by T. Coraghessan Boyle

... that seems incongruous to how the author's built them up." I absolutely agree- that was actually my biggest problem with The Road. (Not that one- the one by Cormac McCarthy The writing just didn't always seem to fit the book. But then I know others love it, so hey. I just finished ...

... : Clouds of Witness made me think of MrsLee A Song for Arbonne and The Other Wind both made me think of Busifer The Road brought Clamairy to mind 'cause she'd mentioned reading it awhile ago Rereadings: Seventeen writers revisit books they love made me think of a thread we all ...

... So far in August I'm reading Eclipse, The Power Makers, and anticipate starting The Heretic's Daughter, an ARC, and The Road for bookclub. And, finally, I joined BookMooch in July and have sent out 15 books and am waiting for 10! It's a blast. My BM member name is same as LT ...

... Europe Central by William Vollman What an amazing book! Up there with Life and Fate in terms of WWII lit. 27. On the Road by Jack Kerouac For my book club. This book is so damn depressing as an adult. 28. & 29. The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution ...

The Road cormac McCarthy Main Street Sinclair Lewis The house on Mango St. Sandra Cisneros Off Keck road Mona Simpson Tara Road Maeve Binchy

Yes, I read Granta 10. It's hard to find them anymore in the US. I read On the Road when I was 21, and that really inspired me to travel. Also the fiction and travel narrative of Paul Theroux. I just discovered Jonathan Raban and he inspires the same feeling to dust off the backpack and ...

... the Rye 75. The Judge and His Hangman 76. Lord of the Flies 77. The Story of O 78. The Lord of the Rings 79. On the Road 80. Homo Faber 81. The Once and Future King 82. Breakfast at Tiffany’s 83. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 84. In Cold Blood 85. The Master ...

... a biography kick lately... I love Cormac McCarthy's style of writing, for me he is not only emotional but highly visual. The Road is heartbreaking but I highly recommend it if you enjoy 'what-if' scenarios.

... Vegas Hunter S. Thompson Dorothy Hughes Ride the Pink Horse (set in what the protagonist thinks is a "hick town") On the Road Jack Kerouac Cannery Row John Steinbeck

Thanks, Tim. I was too lazy to read the requirements. I have the book The Road which is a novel and I have not yet read. The others are not familiar to me so a great list to explore. It is good to see a prize for younger writers.

... Prize 2007) 4. Cloud Atlas David Mitchell (Booking 2004) 5. The Shipping News Anne Proulx (Pulitzer Prize 1994) 6. The Road Cormac McCarthy (Pulitzer Prize 2007) 7. The Restraint of Beasts Magnus Mills 8. tbc

... The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy. I've just finished it and it really made an impression ! In many ways, it reminded of On The Road by Jack Kerouac but from a female perspective and in my opinion Dundy's book is better written. The book narrates the story of Sally Jay, a girl on holiday in ...

booklady, I heartily agree re: On the Road. Just a hippie aberration. What a useless way to live. This attitude probably indicates my age, but I thought this book worthless.

... and The Shadow of the Wind and One Hundred Years of Solitude both rank among my favorites. I couldn't stand On the Road, and I'm surprised no one has mentioned it yet. It's entirely obvious that he wrote it in 3 weeks while under the influence of a variety of drugs. I've tried ...

On the Road: Jack Kerouac

... rd On the Beach by Nevil Shute Recent New Reads: Tunnels by Gordon and Williams Into the Forest by Jean Hegland The Road by Cormac McCarthy The Book of Dave by Will Self Toward the End of Time by John Updike The Children of Men by P.D. James

#47 The Road by Cormac McCarthy, 241 pages Total Pages = 15271

I love my mother and Amazon. I ordered 3 books for me for my birthday and she's sending me a check! The Road by Cormac McCarthy Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin

... do think of World War Z? I just finished the audiobook and loved it! I hated to see it end. I'm currently reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I should finish it tonight and I have no idea what I'll start next. I'm searching for a book that is amazing, one that I can't put down. ...

... it was difficult to pick 5 but her goes... No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy, I loved this, even more than The Road which I also read this quarter. The Namesake, byJhumpa Lahiri Unaccustomed Earth also by Lahiri The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell, and Twili ...

I love the movie as well, the clothes those aunts wear are to die for! And the house is killer too. I read The road and thought it was really well done.

From The Road: mendicant: a member of a religious order owning no property chary: discreetly cautious

... - David B. 05. Best American Comics 2007 - Chris Ware ed. 06. Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer 07. On the Road - Jack Kerouac 08. Elementary Number Theory 6th Edition - David M. Burton 09. Hard Travelin': the hobo and his history - Kenneth Allsop 10. S ...

... Literary level up, literary level up, literary level up. Currently reading: Conflicts that Changed the World, On the Road, and The French Lieutenant's Woman

Year of Wonders - thanks Teelgee The Road Pride and Prejudice I hope to finish Middlemarch and get to Never Let Me Go. Thanks LT!

I have already enjoyed The Road and found it brilliant also. The father and son thing happened for me as well, reading it after I read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. A bit of an odd pairing, but completely unintended. Nonetheless, they were an interesting couple; both travel ...

From The Road by Cormac McCarthy: discalced: barefoot, unshod

"No, you always say that." The Road by Cormac McCarthy "How does the never to be differ from the never was?"

#27 > I think The Road is amazing. McCarthy's use of language is phenomenal. I find his writing to be horrifying, poetic, and staggering all at the same time. Vive la difference!

Moving on from The Virgin Suicides to The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

... by Turgenev I've read. Torrents of Spring shared the same melodramatic style, which I find quite entertaining. The Road is amazing. I think Cormac McCarthy is a brilliant writer. His use of language is staggering, poetic, and horrifying, all at the same time. A third of the ...

... a copy of Fathers and Sons as it was on some of my 100 best lists. What did you think? Also, what did you think of The Road?

Picked up On The Road yesterday (following the completion of my exams - huzzah and all that!); being 18 I thought I would have been Kerouac's target audience, although in someways a little young, but goddamn(!) it's just a load of pretenious nonsense. It reads like it's aimed at some pot-filled, ...

I finished The Virgin Suicides and I am about to start The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

... hoices? I will assess myself right now by checking my results so far this year. I, too, need to be chastised. #108 -- The Road did have paragraphs, but no punctuation markers, and it worked pretty well for me on paper. I cannot read without paragraphs -- I have seen that in long emails ...

... Since May 14, 2008 I have read: 1. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage Rating: 9/10 2. Libra Rating: 9/10 3. The Road Rating: 10/10 4. The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing Rating: 7/10 5. Salt - A World History Rating: 7/10 6. Ubik Rating: 8/10 7. The Devil in the White Ci ...

... female characters from A Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing as friends. Oh and to hang out with the entire cast of On the Road even though all those characters are based on real people. Yes, apparently I still haven't gotten over my beatnik phase.

... First, thanks for taking the time to read along through my thread here and make some comments. On McCarthy and The Road....I do think that the ending is a hopeful one, while not exactly a happy one. But it is a more hope filled ending than most of the McCarthy I've read. On Kin ...

99> Marylou was a beat's wife in On the Road. Too bad she wasn't too loyal, but I can kinda understand since Moriarty treats her like crap in the book.

... Novels {complete} 1. Of Human Bondage by William Somerset Maugham **** 2. L'Amant by Marguerite Duras ***½ 3. On the Road by Jack Kerouac **** 4. Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell **** 5. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene ****½ 6. The Portrait of an Art ...

On the Road. I read the Original Scroll edition, and it was riveting!

... in one month: Cosmicomics If on a Winter's Night a Traveler and another candidate for best-book-ever: On the Road original scroll

On the Road by Jack Kerouac From there to here and back again by Robert H. Sternberg Weaving a Way Home by Leslie Van Gelder From Baghdad, with Love by Jay Kopelman The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis

Congratulations on your honeymoon, DevourerOfBooks. :) I picked up Jack Kerouac's On the Road yesterday, but I don't have any road trips planned this year - just airplane rides to the Northeast hehe.

... Love was a huge bestseller and so many loved it (including Oprah), but I just totally disliked it and disliked very much The Road which is another one that was a huge bestseller. That's part of the reason I love LT--so many varying opinions and tastes--makes life very interesting.

†On the Road **** by Jack Kerouac 05/15/08 Sometimes a Great Notion ***½ by Ken Kesey 05/18/08 Humboldt's Gift ****½ by Saul Bellow 05/20/08 The Confidential Agent ** (#100) by Graham Greene 05/22/08 The Time Machine **½ by H.G. Wells 05/24/08 †Winesburg, O ...

... Eyre, Mrs Dalloway, Fanny Hill, Kim, Siddhartha, Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord) Back over A Severed Head On the Road In Cold Blood In the Heart of the Country As if I am not There. *EDIT* Some touchstones not working right.

... mimic the book's style. So I was disappointed that I now find Holden utterly annoying and unsympathetic. I first read On the Road in my mid-20s, and I bet that I would have loved it when I was 15, but couldn't stand it when I did read it.

... {complete} 1. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell **** 2. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess ****½ 3. The Road by Cormac McCarthy *** 4. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro *** 5. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick ** 6. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells ** 7. ...

On The Road is finally done...i thought i would like it a lot more than i did. It is basically the story of a couple of friends who waste their lives away hitchiking/driving around the usa in the 60's/70's. I never got attached to the characters, so it was def. hard to get attached to the book! ...

Welcome to the 75'ers group. Youv'e got a couple of the same reads as I do this year The Road and Dune. How'd you like Dune. I enjoyed it a great deal. I also see you are a Vonnegut fan. I just read my first Vonnegut this year Slaughterhouse Five and did not enjoy it too much but I may ...

... Animals a long time ago and loved it. As for the Thread of Grace I am with you on that one! Oh and I have just seen The Road. I am off to see how much our librairies coincide ... runs fast!

... the movie and the book but I am interested......a little more info, please!!! Very happy to hear about the movie for The Road as I am a huge McCarthy fan. I have been pleased by the movies made of his work so far. No Country for Old Men captured the quirky and truly western/southwester ...

... and you can tell that the sauce would be perfect if you could just figure out one last spice that it needs. You know? The Road. Oh, The Road. First, I have to admit that spare writing is not typically my style. I'm more of a Hawthorne girl than a Hemingway one. That said, I'm ...

... modern lit treatise/diatribe/rant/who knows may compare the last three grown-up modern books I've read- Never Let Me Go, The Road, and Geek Love. It's percolating. People will almost certainly disagree. But . . . there's something there. Sigh. Time for work.

I am now reading Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, Jack Kerouac's On The Road, and, Marcel Proust's major work.

So one bad review and one good review...good thing I only spent $1 on The Road at the booksale! Not that I'm going to have the time to read it in the near future. I have one month to study enough to get a good score on my GRE so I think my reading pace is going to slow down a bit. btw, I ...

... rather enjoyed this book. The concept was cute and well-realized. I'll be curious to see how the series develops. 56. The Road, by Cormac McCarthy I could have sworn this was on the 1001 list. Darn. Overall? Underwhelmed. The book was fine, but I came out of it fairly unmoved. I ...

... only to walk out with two. The Namesake on audio, which I started immediately, and it is absolutely wonderful so far. The Road, which I haven't started yet but can't wait, since I finished No Country for Old Men last month and loved it. I am going in blind on this one also. I know ...

... paperbacks for about 50€ fear and loathing in las vegas by Hunter S. Thompson, the cleft by Doris Lessing, on the road by Jack Kerouac, Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro (wanted to see what all the fuss here on LT was about) and There are Little Kingdoms by Kevin ...

some of the shots in the movie adaptation of no country for old men reminded me of descriptions in the road. in an ideal world the coen brothers would do the movie version of the road.

the Road by Cormac McCarthy is the first McCarthy book I've ever read, and, I can honestly say I'm going to be reading more by him. The Road is little more than the tale of a nameless father and son wandering around a post-apocalyptic America trying to survive. This is not a happy story, nor ...

... Middlemarch is much longer, it may be a bit of a problem. 43. No country for old men by Cormac McCarthy. I enjoyed The road very much and I wanted to read more from this author. I decided to read this in part because of all the hype surrounding the movie. I noticed that most people ...

... White Radiance - James Lee Burke 22.In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead - James Lee Burke 23.On the Road - Jack Kerouac 24.Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller 25.The Book of Daniel - E.L. Doctorow 26.Amsterdam - Ian McEwan 27.Dixie City Jam - ...

... reasons. Surely the pathos of Train Man would make a grown man cry. Also I found that I got a bit teary at the end of On the Road, because of the examination of an insane life lived there. I would probably find the novel version of Devdas heartbreaking considering I have seen the movie ...

... romance, you should def. give this book a try! 2008 book total: 19 Vicky Angel by Jacqueline Wilson and On The Road by Jack Kerouac are next on my list. Right now i'm working my way through the BBC Big Read top 100. So far so good!

... of Dostoyevsky's Demons (which is listed as The Possessed under Touchstones) The original scroll version of Jack Kerouac's On the Road

... reading The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov and pretty much anything else that takes my interest. I've read On the Road and Howl and other poems and the first bit of Naked Lunch, but I was reading a bunch of other stuff and I couldn't keep it all together. I'm going to reread ...

... reading The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov and pretty much anything else that takes my interest. I've read On the Road and Howl and other poems and the first bit of Naked Lunch, but I was reading a bunch of other stuff and I couldn't keep it all together. I'm going to reread ...

... reading The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov and pretty much anything else that takes my interest. I've read On the Road and Howl and other poems and the first bit of Naked Lunch, but I was reading a bunch of other stuff and I couldn't keep it all together. I'm going to reread ...

... reading The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov and pretty much anything else that takes my interest. I've read On the Road and Howl and other poems and the first bit of Naked Lunch, but I was reading a bunch of other stuff and I couldn't keep it all together. I'm going to reread ...

... reading The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov and pretty much anything else that takes my interest. I've read On the Road and Howl and other poems and the first bit of Naked Lunch, but I was reading a bunch of other stuff and I couldn't keep it all together. I'm going to reread ...

... reading The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov and pretty much anything else that takes my interest. I've read On the Road and Howl and other poems and the first bit of Naked Lunch, but I was reading a bunch of other stuff and I couldn't keep it all together. I'm going to reread ...

... reading The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov and pretty much anything else that takes my interest. I've read On the Road and Howl and other poems and the first bit of Naked Lunch, but I was reading a bunch of other stuff and I couldn't keep it all together. I'm going to reread ...

... reading The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov and pretty much anything else that takes my interest. I've read On the Road and Howl and other poems and the first bit of Naked Lunch, but I was reading a bunch of other stuff and I couldn't keep it all together. I'm going to reread ...

... reading The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov and pretty much anything else that takes my interest. I've read On the Road and Howl and other poems and the first bit of Naked Lunch, but I was reading a bunch of other stuff and I couldn't keep it all together. I'm going to reread ...

... reading The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov and pretty much anything else that takes my interest. I've read On the Road and Howl and other poems and the first bit of Naked Lunch, but I was reading a bunch of other stuff and I couldn't keep it all together. I'm going to reread ...

... hated The Memory Keeper's Daughter and only read about 70 pages of it, enjoyed The Kite Runner and will be reading The Road for bookclub. Might consider A Thousand Splendid Suns because I've heard that it's even better than The Kite Runner, but have no real interest in any of the ...

The Road *** by Cormac McCarthy 04/15/08 Prince Caspian ½ by C.S. Lewis 04/16/08

Made it through The Road by Cormac McCarthy without slitting my wrists, but it was a close-run thing. Now I'm dipping into A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit and loving it. I accidentally stumbled upon her book yesterday - I was in Borders with my youngest son and suddenly ...

teelgee - thanks for the tip about brackets. So. last night I finished The Road by Cormac McCarthy and had a really hideous nightmare a few hours later. Mind you, that's hardly his fault, but right now, more nightmares I do not need. I tried my very best, but I could not connect with anything ...

... Out stealing horses – Per Petterson –258p. 03/12/08 A gathering of old men - Ernest J. Gaines- 03/13/08 The road - Cormac McCarthy-241p 03/15/08 One hundred years of solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez-422p. 03/20/08 World without end – Ken Follet 1024 p. 03/22/08 ...

... finished today one that will definitely be on my top 5 list for the next quarter, No Country for Old Men, and noticed The Road on many top 5's, I guess I'll be adding that to my tbr list. edited for bad spelling

... thread--I'm a huge fan of Christopher Moore and Cormac McCarthy (and yes, curious about what the film adaptation of The Road will bring), but I was a bit bewildered by your comment on Atonement--I haven't seen the movie, but the book left me feeling pretty cold, while The Road ...

20. The Road by Cormac McCarthy This was a re-read for me since I'm teaching it right now in my contemp. lit. class, but with every read I find something new and find it worth the time--it's always touching, always heart-breaking, and always re-affirming. It paints a very stark version of ...

A) General Fiction: 6. The Road by Cormac McCarthy This was a reread since I'm teaching it in my contemporary lit. class right now, but I always enjoy it. It was an interesting journey reading this alongside Perfect Circle...

... The books I've got on my plate for dystopias include: The Sleeper Awakes by H.G. Wells, We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, and Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. I'd be particularly interested in doing the first three, since I have them all in hand right ...

... added comments on No Country for Old Men. I think in some ways it was the last couple of pages that made the reading of The Road so satisfying -- when everything came together through critical elements never addressed in the rest of the book. Perhaps this is his way. To lead you on the ...

Oh, stefferjo, you posted while I was typing...it's not On the Road either.

On the Road?

1. Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett 2. The Road by Cormac McCarthy 3. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 4. Mary, Mrs. A. Lincoln by Janis Cooke Newman 5. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

Welcome, mcolville2! To take a slightly different tack, one of the things that I found most impressive about On the Road was the way he was able to write about the experience of listening to jazz. Writing about listening to music is extraordinarily hard to pull off. What Kerouac did for ...

Oddly enough, I never read Hunter S. Thompson until last year, although On the Road was my boyfriend's Bible way back when. :) I see you like Charles Buckowski. Never read him before, although I'm interested in reading him now. My poetry man back in the 60's was Richard Brautigan. Of ...

... Shakespeare The Far Traveler Nancy Marie Brown Born on a Blue Day Daniel Tammet The Road Cormac McCarthy Pretty Little Mistakes Heather Mcelhatton The Quiet American Graham Greene Independent People Halldor Laxness ...

I heard that The Road was being made into a movie. I seem to remember Viggo Mortensen's name being linked with it somehow. I agree with ty1997. A recent example is Atonement. What a blow-your-hair-back book. Seriously. I had to go into the movie with an open mind otherwise I would've ...

... comments/links to reviews of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress and Time and Again. I have just finished #18: The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I was not much of a fan of McCarthy's after reading All the Pretty Horses, but this book really impressed me. It is such a dark tale that I ...

I'd recommend: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See Life of Pi - Yann Martel The Road - Cormac McCarthy

Outer Dark has Less violence...but it still has a few fairly graphic scenes--nothing worse than The Road though I don't think...

Yes, that may be it. W can hope that the events that led to The Road will never happen, but the events in No Country for Old Men are happening all the time now. Well, the drugs and gang wars and psycho killer(s), I mean. I have to say, though ~ hopeless & depressing or not, I really love ...

Ok, so finished The Road yesterday and have come to the conclusion that I really enjoyed it. But after such an depressing and dark book I needed something lighter to read this time, so I picked up About a Boy by Nick Hornby for my next read.

... Penguin Classics edition I pounced on it. I suspect like many others, I'm a recent convert to Cormac McCarthy through The Road and No Country for Old Men. I'm looking forward to exploring his earlier work.

... on the book--when I asked if they felt it was at all predictable, I may as well have been from outer space! Glad you liked The Road better--No Country for Old Men is toward the top of my tbr pile now. And since this is long, in case you're looking for suggestions and since we have some ...

Just finished The Pillars of the Earth and loved it! Am now reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy, and I'm not quite sure what I think about it.

Finished The Road by Cormac McCarthy hated it. Began Haunted Ground by Erin Hart light mystery... needed something to take away the taste of despair left by The Road

... movie next month. This the great thing about books--the difference of opinions people have. I know many many who loved The Road--I myself hated it.

... O'Conner, Harry Crews. He writes about the underside of America. Indeed, he can be quite graphic and apocolyptic (see The Road), yet in addition to his grim descriptions , one can also find a glimpse of human hope, love and comradeship. To my liking he is a great writer who provides a ...

He's got two really distinctive types of book; if you end up liking The Road like you liked No Country for Old Men, the other books by him to definately look up are Outer Dark, Child of God, and Blood Meridian. I have a feeling there are a few others that are up this alley and not the ...

16. The Road 17. Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict

... I finished Ghostwritten by David Mitchell which was quite good, but not as good as Cloud Atlas and I just finished The Road by Cormac McCarthy which was fine, good even, but not my cup of tea. I've now started The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander

... I finished Ghostwritten by David Mitchell which was quite good, but not as good as Cloud Atlas and I just finished The Road by Cormac McCarthy which was fine, good even, but not my cup of tea. I've now started The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander

... by Chekhov, The Princess Bride by William Goldman, Stoner by John Williams, No country for old men & The Road by Cormac McCarthy and also The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins On top of those i recieved in the post a UK first edition of Cities Of The Red Night ...

... be 100. Books I have read so far in 2008: 1. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens 2. Hollywood - Charles Bukowski 3. The Road - Cormac McCarthy 4. Ralph Nader : Battling for Democracy - Kevin Graham 5. 2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke 6. The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wel ...

Just finished #51-53. On The Road by Jack Kerouac, The Book of Daniel by E.L. Doctorow and Amsterdam by Ian McEwan. Plus found two more books I read but had not checked off, Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift and Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. Brings my total to ...

... second time around? I haven't ever returned to a book but it seems a lot of people I've talked to feel this way about On the Road. Just got me thinking...

I am struggling to finish The Sister because of all of the "moth stuff". Listening to The Road on my commute. I am also 40 pages into Honeymoon With My Brother for bookclub Friday and not enjoying it at all! It's not the best week for reading!

... Jane Eyre 4. Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights 5. Martin Zusak - De Boekendief ( The Book Thief ) 6. Jack Kerouac - On the Road 7. Gregory David Roberts - Shantaram 8. Peter James - Op dood spoor (Not dead enough) 9. Nicci French - Verloren ( Losing You ) 10. Joe Hill - Zwart Ha ...

Recently finished On the Road by Jack Kerouac and now working on Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller. Once that is finished, it will be on to The Book of Daniel by E.L. Doctorow. Not sure why Touchstones are not working for my post. Sorry!

After finishing On the Road by Jack Kerouac, I did a review of the list again and realized I had not checked off some books that I had read. Therefore, On the Road was my 50th book from the list, not 38th as previous reported. Currently working on Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller ...

My 23rd book of the year was On the Road by Jack Kerouac. This is one of the 1001 Books to Read Before You Die and my 50th book from that list.

... started The Book Thief a few weeks back and need to pick it up again, it wasn't holding my interest. I also just started The Road on audio. Rambling I know. I just spent 7 hours in the car today so I'm a little punchy!

... Affair by Jasper Fforde 21. My Antonia by Willa Cather 22. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster 23. The Road by Cormac McCarthy 24. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson 25. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson 26. Vanishing Act ...

Almost finished with The Appeal by John Grisham and tomorrow will start The Road.

3 audible downloads today at $4.95 each! The Road, The Girl with the Pearl Earring and Confessions of a Jane Austin Addict. I can't wait because I have 3 road trips in the next two weeks, I will finish these in no time!

The Road (which has just moved to the top of my "best ever" books) Dreams From My Father (well written and very interesting) In the Country of Men (Gave me a real sense of how scary it is to live every day looking over your shoulder).

... 1001 books to read... 4-1. The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy 4-2. Catch-22, Joseph Heller 4-3. On the Road, Jack Kerouac 4-4. An Artist of the Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro 4-5. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck 4-6. Kokoro, Natsum ...

... Nancy Marie Brown August 3 Born on a Blue Day Daniel Tammet September 7 The Road Cormac McCarthy October 5 Pretty Little Mistakes Heather Mcelhatton November 2 The Quiet Amer ...

... es The Hours by Michael Cunningham Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler The Road by Cormac McCarthy To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee A Fable by William Faulkner House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday

... me to really get into the flow of the book. This brings my whopping total to 37 books out of the 1001. 38 if I count On the Road by Jack Kerouac that I picked up yesterday but have not started yet.

I'm not a re-reader (who has the time), but if I was I wouldn't pick up On The Road or Martin Amis' The Rachel Papers again. I read the latter when I was 17, it was a total time and place thing.

... Eco. I'm also continuing with The Elephant Vanishes and Screen Burn and will probably finish my audiobook ofThe Road on my way home from the office this evening.

#209 Stechschulte (it is spelt like that) is doing a pretty good job. The relentless grimness of The Road makes it pretty gruelling stuff, but one expects that with Cormac McCarthy. He also read No Country for Old Men, which I listened to last year, so I guess he must specialise in his ...

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

... of age story set in the West with a Mexican twist...i read it several years ago...if you want some powerful reading try The Road or Blood Meridian. In my opinion Cormac is a maestro!

... ews. 13. The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a small town by John Grisham, 1,111 owners, 34 reviews. 14. The Road by Cormac McCarthy, 4,244 owners, 225 reviews. 15. The Glass Castle: a memoir by Jeanette Walls, 3,329 owners, 129 reviews.

... but just manipulation of the info. For instance, could I find the most added book for Jan. 2008? Or how many copies of The Road were added in the last six months? Most reviewed book in the last two weeks? Etc. etc.

My new audiobook is The Road by Cormac McCarthy and read by Tom Stechschulte. I hope that's how his surname is spelt, anyway.

... now! I chose this thanks to a recommendation from another LT member - cheers. At the other extreme, my new audiobook is The Road by Cormac McCarthy. This means that, along with Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex, which I'm about 3/4 of the way through, I'm reading two Pulitzer winners ...

... category double entry read Now, for the categories: 1. Books about journeys a. On the Road, Kerouac b. Girl meets Boy by Smith (not on librarything yet) c. Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Ralston d. On the Road to Heaven by Newell e ...

... Enright Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides Vanish - Tess Gerritsen The Road - Cormac McCarthy The Shipping News - E.Annie Proulx The Interpretation of Murder - Jed Rubenfeld

... sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. Babbitt I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up. On the Road

... months, as they expound upon their theories of the world, mainly via stories. In one sense, this book is reminiscent of On The Road- the characters are just, sort of, going. No real destination, no real plans. They're trying to find themselves through their experiences, which they attempt ...

I've left the post-Apocalyptic U. S. of The Road and journeyed to Libya in In the Country of Men.

Well, I'll add my voice to the chorus of people who loved The Road by McCarthy, but I have to add a note about The Alchemist too--I read this the summer before I started college. Our University sent copies to all incoming freshmen as our first assignment to sort of unify the campus. I read ...

*****The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho ****** This by far was the best book I read in 2007. The Road by Cormac McCarthy was also excellent. But everyone in my family got a copy of The Alchemist for Christmas!

... not Clay Golem, which is hardier and longer lasting than the leading brand Golems). Other than that I finished reading On the Road as planned, and it was one of the most powerful books I ever read. You need to read it to the end to know its worth as literature.

... Fortress by Dan Brown Haunted America by Michael Norman & Beth Scott The Lonely Life by Bette Davis On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Reading On the Road by Jack Kerouac. I'm surprised at how sad the ending is. Poor Moriarty, he didn't mean to be irresponsible, but he should have known better than to wife-swap... Finished Beowulf: An Updated Translation the other day. It was really powerful how they celebrated the life ...

I've been reading On the Road and I'm up to the part where Dean Moriarty (SPOILERS) gets disowned by his family because of his madness and irresponsibility. Considering what the guy does/did you can see why they disowned him, he's got a string of unhappy lovers that he abandoned and he's crazy ...

2007, I picked 150 books to read. However, the last Harry Potter book completely ruined things for me and I had to desire to pick up another book until recently. I got around 50, if I was lucky (see http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=6899). So, I'm not going to bite off more than I ...

The Road is a wonderful book. Very moving. I loved it.

... A satirical post-apocalyptic novel set here in America. This is not written with the gravitas of The Pesthouse or The Road but with a sly wit, often irreverent, sometimes laugh-out-loud funny, poking fun of our cultural foibles along the way but giving us plenty to think about at the ...

... ) From Publishers Weekly: Starred Review. At the start of Martin's compelling postapocalyptic novel, which reads like The Road as told by the crusty old woman from Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, Mary and her husband, John, perch precariously in a tree while a huge, corpse-eati ...

... Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy) by Kim Stanley Robinson Pulitzer Prize Winners The Road (rough cut) by Cormac Mccarthy March by Geraldine Brooks Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson The Known World: A Novel by Edward P. Jones Middlesex: A N ...

Worst Fiction. A toss up between The Fig Eater and The Poe Shadow Best Fiction, The Road with a special mention for HP Book 7 Best Non-Fiction A Year in The Life of William Shakespeare 1599 Worst, Favorite Brand Name Classic Mexican Recipes

... Sun Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Nineteen Minutes Snow Flower and the Secret Fan The Book Thief The Road The Thirteenth Tale The Time Traveler's Wife Water for Elephants

... by Henning Mankell (August 2008) 3. The Saffron Kitchen by Yasmin Crowther (November 2008) VII Award Winners 1. The Road by Cormac Mc Carthy - Booker (Jan 2008) 2. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell - Alex Award(May 2008) 3. In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje - Trillium ( ...

... – Ian McEwan (F) (4) Howards End – E.M. Forster (F) (5) For One More Day - Mitch Albom (F) (6) The Road – Cormac McCarthy (F) - (overlap #2) (7) The Book of Dead Days - Marcus Sedgwick (F) - 07/21/2008 (8) The Return of History and the End of Dreams - ...

... 8 (3) The Making of Victorian Values: Decency and Dissent in Britain: 1789-1837 – Ben Wilson (NF) - 06/10/2008 (4) The Road – Cormac McCarthy (F) (5) City of Oranges: Arabs and Jews in Jaffa – Adam LeBor (NF) (6) The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins (F) (7) Vill ...

I gave On the Road a shot because I like Hunter S. Thompson and some compare his style to Kerouac. I'm not really a fan of On the Road though I can appreciate the lyrical qualities of the prose as you mentioned, perile. But like Miles Davis (for example), I'm not sure that I really get it.

On the Road was better when I was younger as well... I can still appreciate it and admire it, but I found myself talking back to it more at 40, instead of agreeing how cool it was...

... the first read. Several books that engaged me in high school just don't have as much there any more (perhaps most sadly, On the Road really is pretty much fluff, isn't it? I loved that at 16). My Hemingway experience I described above - I've come around on him, though it took a while.

I think the popularity and the "greatness" of On the Road had more to do with its timing than its content. But then people seem to like the chaos of it all. And the road trip aspect. People love the road trip. Forget that it was basically pointless. Whatever message was there was lost on the ...

... educational. Wow. Oh, and I always want to hug people who don't care about beat literature. I don't get it either. On the Road was one of the most disappointing things I ever read.

... cioni Books from Oprah's list 1. Stones from the River, Ursula Hegi 2. The Pilot's Wife, Anita Shreve 3. The Road, Cormac McCarthy 4. As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner 5. Gap Creek, Robert Morgan 6. Night, Eli Weisel - REPEAT! 7. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy - REPE ...

... Files series). The Book Thief was also a book I read because of LT, as was Team of Rivals, Devil in the White City, The Road, and Thirteenth Tale. And I'm reading Jane Eyre for the first time because 99.9% of LTers have loved that novel. (I am loving it too!)

--> 2 Welcome to LibraryThing! I hope you like The Road as much as I did. It was the best book I read in 2007 (...of which there are only a few days left!).

Starting off my list today with The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

It's so hard to limit the list to 5 - so many good books this year. Top 5 Fiction 1. The Road by Cormac McCarthy 2. Restless by William Boyd 3. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell 4. The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle 5. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini I've loved ...

51. The Trial by Franz Kafka 52. On The Road by Jack Kerouac 53. The Shining by Stephen King 54. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera 55. Solaris by Stanislaw Lem 56. Life of Pi by Yann Martel 57. The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham ...

Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda; The Catcher in the Rye by Salinger; On the Road by Jack Kerouac. :)

... of reality. Okay, so anyway, #23 - varielle - re: the "selfish, self-indulgent, irresponsible and vacuous characters" in On the Road -- maybe it's a matter of taste. Hedonism isn't for everyone, but it's got a pretty broad base of admirers. Plus, part of OtheR's interest nowadays stems ...

It was a wonderful night. On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Regarding On the Road you said it with pointless and unsympathetic. Maybe it's the male versus female perspective. I read it because my ex raved over it so. I can't think of more selfish, self-indulgent, irresponsible and vacuous characters. Maybe it was a release from the social expectations ...

I've never read Kerouac, despite having heard about On the Road as an icon of a generation just a smidge older than my own. Kerouac seems to have been returning to the public consciousness lately after quite a few years in which the vogue for his style of free-wheeling wanderlust was eclipsed by ...

... friends called California Diaries and one of the characters, Sunny, falls for this guy who carries around a worn copy of On the Road and I of course fell for him too. Actually, while we're at it I should add Jack Kerouac himself to the list.

Finished reading Coraline by Neil Gaiman, and am working on finishing On the Road by Jack Kerouac, as well as dipping into Creme De La Phlegm: Unforgettable Australian Reviews, introducing myself to Ursula Le Guin with The Birthday of the World, all the while trying to study for ...

... by J. Graham Beaumont 25. Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett 26. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood 27. On the Road by Jack Kerouac 28. All Families are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland 29. Joe College by Tom Perrotta 30. The Worry Cure by Robert Leahy 3 ...

... the books when I can. My current read, Tex and Molly in the Afterlife has a religious pamphlet called Heaven or Hell??; On the Road has an old bus ticket stub, etc. Never thought to scribble notes on them, though... Far as the reading journal, I've been keeping them for about four years ...

English Passengers On the Road Rolling Nowhere Starting from San Francisco Journey to the End of the Night

On the Road. I just can't help it. I dislike the man. I think the message of experiencing life to the fullest is important but if during your pursuit of your experiences you disregard those of other people then what's the point?

47) On the Road by Jack Kerouac

... Mediocre books can remain prominent for a variety of reasons. #19 - frogbelly - I don't think it's blasphemy not to like On the Road, but despite its plodding beginning, it's a book that really spoke to me as a teenager. It captures the excitement and craziness and pure optimism of a ...

I know that this will be considered blasphemy by many, but I don't really believe that On the Road will be considered a great work a hundred years from now. I could be wrong. It's happened before. There will always be young men who like to live vicariously (and ironically in this case) through ...

42. On the Road by Jack Kerouac. I enjoyed the first two-thirds or so of the book, and I can see how he and the other "beats" were precursors of the hippies. But, by the last third of the book, I felt he didn't have anything new to say, and I got bored.

... religious were the 1950's? The Caves of Steel dates from 1954, a time I would think would be super conservative. But then On the Road was written in 1951. Ok, wait, this is way off topic, forget I asked. As for the biblical discussion, I think he was experimenting with humanizing the ...

... read one after the other but they all had very similar ideas relating to Buddhism or consciousness. The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac is basically a story about some a group of friends who are very into the idea of Dharma and do some deep discussions into it. The main character also decides ...

... divine hand of guidance. I think the order you read books in is also important. The books were: *The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac *Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse *Altered States by Paddy Chayefsky *Teddy from Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger All touched on the idea of Buddhism ...

43. On The Road: The Original Scroll-Jack Kerouac

Random order seems most logical: Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami On the Road by Jack Kerouac Alas Babylon by Pat Frank Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert and, because of the similar subject and proximity in time when I read them, I couldn't pick one over ...

#8- regarding Doctorow his ultimate American novel is probably Ragtime. i also add Kerouac's On THe Road as a unique and representative American novel.

Well, did you finish On the Road, TeenAuthor? What did you think? I had some very mixed feelings about it...

Le Grand Meaulnes is mentioned to be stolen by Sal Paradise in On the Road.

... ) should not have to compete with various protestant heresies. But his later work is....well truman capote said that On the Road was typing and not writing. I think that would be true of his Red Wheel Cycle. It is like he did a lot of research, then emptied his desk top onto the ...

Well, I am currently reading the Beatles biography by Spitz, On the Road, The Laws of Love and I am teaching a Bible survey course at the University of Alaska, and I always like to try to read at least one new book every time I teach it. I am willing to put it in the TBR pile, but frankly ...

... girl I like out? All these questions have affected my writing too, so many themes in books like Catcher in the Rye and On the Road that I've only started to begin to understand, they're not about Angst, it's about leaving that self centered Angst behind, and stepping out into the adult ...

... was commendable, but I have no shame in giving "Cather" a solid one star. Similarly, I found nothing endearing about On the Road. The main characters race around the country, waste their hours chasing tail or doing drugs and visit nothing of note (be it a mountain or a museum). Neither ...

... or the mood I was in at the time. Maybe I should give it another chance. I also remember not getting much out of On The Road, though I admit that I probably read that one before I was ready.

... by Katharine Burdekin It Can't Happen Here: A Novel by Sinclair Lewis The Iron Heel by Jack London The Road by Cormac McCarthy Erewhon by Samuel Butler The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard 334: A Novel by Thomas M. Disch The Wanting Seed by Anth ...

265: d2vge and TheTwoDs William Burroughs, and the whole Beat generation is very cool. I read On The Road and Naked Lunch so far. Naked Lunch was a little rough to get through, but there were moments of great writing within the "Cut-and-Paste" process Burroughs used. I also just saw Burr ...

I may have missed the 50th Anniversary of On The Road by a little, but this is a sterling opportunity to read it. Since nobody's going for the other books I suggested to read, I think this might clear the tumbleweed from the group and encourage people to come back. Get your Read on!

... Middlemarch by George Elliot, Stardust by Neil Gaiman, The Ladies Auxiliary by Tova Mirvis, and now I'm reading On the Road, by Jack Kerouac.

... The Brothers Karamozov That Hideous Strength or Perelandra Delta of Venus Foucault's Pendulum On the Road Leaves of Grass Waiting for Godet

I have not bought it yet, but I am lusting after the 50th Anniversary edition of On the Road.

... of the 1950s, and could (despite Nabokov's Russian origins) be one of the Great American Novels like Kerouac's On the Road or Faulkner's Sound and the Fury. Thomas Harris's Silence of the Lambs is an inventive but poorly written thriller (actually, the film is much ...

(It's a slow day at work, can you tell?) I've found another one: Robbing the Bees and The Sound and the Fury = On the Road (sound recording

... Moore The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon The Sundering (SFBC Omnibus) by Jacqueline Carey The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling

Over the River and Through the Woods - Joe DiPietro On the Road - Jack Kerouac Cars & Trucks & Things that Go - Richard Scarry The Hijack Adventure -Chistopher Wright Up the River - Samantha Ruskin

Back Roads by Tawni O'Dell Grand Avenue by Joy Fielding Coastal Road by Barbara Delinksky Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry The Way the Crow Flies by Ann-Marie Macdonald

A Map of the World On the Road Mexico Days The Valleys of the Assassins and Other Persian Travels A Long Road Back

The only "classic" I've ever read that I felt was not worth my time was On the Road, but I'm not sure it's really old enough to be classified as such.

I listened to On the Road while doing my commute instead of reading it. It was great, but some other books I've tried didn't seem as well suited for listening or listening in a car. Can anyone suggest any other books from the list that would be good choices for listening while commuting?

... Bloom on a map as he wanders around Dublin (my home town) in Ulysses, or tracking Sal and Dean through US and Mexico in On The Road. Think this would throw up really interesting data - most popular locations for setting novels, clusters of authors living in a location etc. And it would be ...

Fight Club Trainspotting On the Road Naked Lunch There are hundreds of books from the last 100 years that would make the list. While much of modern literature can't hold the term, there are still modern writers doing amazing things.

... Years by Anne Tyler 41) Billy Bathgate by E.L. Doctorow 42) Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik 43) The Road by Cormac McCarthy 44) The Archivist's Story by Travis Holland 45) Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns 46) High Tide in Tucson by Barbara Kingsolver 47) B ...

... on Ice Slouching Towards Bethlehem Slaughterhouse-Five x The Whole Earth Catalog x Our Bodies, Ourselves On the Road x Bright Lights, Big City x One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest x The Feminine Mystique The Autobiography of Malcolm X x Understanding Media The Cat ...

... the only angry kid), The Lord of the Rings (I could actually read a huge work), Childhood's End (hope for mankind), On the Road (there can be a working class hero) , Stranger in a Strange Land (just mind-bending and positive), Howl (poetry can be visceral), The Electric Kool-aid Acid ...

... Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden (should have won Canada Reads last year!) Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates On the Road by Jack Kerouac (this counts twice because it's a road trip with road in the title!) Sugar Street by Naguib Mahfouz And here's 5 more (told you this ...

Almost finished reading Go by John Clellon Holmes. It's like reading a precursor/companion to On the road - same characters (Kerouac, Cassady, Ginsberg), just different character names.

... The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and On the Road by Jack Kerouac. Plus, I'll be starting Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Audio) soon. Phew! The fun of being an Lit Studies Major who has ...

Carlianna that is exactly the experience I had with The Egyptologist. I've temporarily stopped reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy. It's a phenomenal book, but it's just so depressing I have had to put it down before I lose all hope. I'll go back to it after a dose of something more ...

... on behalf of The Diamond as Big as the Ritz because I agree that the plot is adolescent. And I completely agree regarding On the Road. It's main claim to fame seems to be that it was written in such a short time - unfortunately, it reads like that also. The Name of the Rose is a book that ...

... American novel that I have made repeated attempts to complete but find chronically mediocre is Jack Kerouac's On the Road. A total waste of time as far as I'm concerned, and once again I find myself baffled why this adolescent drivel is held in such high literary esteem.

Just joined the group (and the challenge) today. Fortunately, I've read two books already in January and should finish my third tonight. They are: 1. The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier 2. Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn 3. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Did ...

The list has been announced. The Road by Cormac McCarthy The lay of the Land by Richard Ford What Is the What by Dave Eggers The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai and Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie Edited to say this is the fiction list, ...

... all Cormac's books, including the very noirish No Country for Old Men, and rather liked it too, but I think Suttree and The Road remain my favorites of his.

berthirsch, The Road was one of my favorite books this year, easily as good as Blood Meridian, or anything else McCarthy has written for that matter, and much easier to read too.

... thematically, however, it could be flushed out just a tad bit more. All in all, it's worth checking out. (Think of On The Road coupled with cynicism and and truculent wit) Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories by Raymond Carver--Maybe it's the time of the season, ...

... anything by Henry James without falling asleep. I haven´t read it since I was fifteen, but Jack Keroac´s On the Road struck me as pure ego-driven, nonsense. Early Hemingway, partcularly The Sun Also Rises is swell, but his later stuff, particularly For Whom the Bell T ...

hi, this is my first time in this site, my english in trouble... sorry i search a book on the sixties or other book on the road by kerouak can you help me, please? if you can write me in italian or french.. :)

... I was indifferent to Catcher in the Rye and wondered what all of the fuss was about. It took me an absolute age to read On the Road when I was about 21, maybe because I kept waiting for something to happen. At that time though, I didn't know much about Kerouac or the Beat movement, and ...

These aren't YA books, but they fall into the category. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, and The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I've read the first, but not the second, which is just out on hardback. All of the reviews say it's very affecting, though it sounded a bit grim to me. Atw ...

... of my all time favorites, I just finished it a few months ago, Lethem is such a great writer). I also just bought The Road and while I haven’t read it yet, I’ve read nothing but praise for it.

... list - would they be "great-squared"? Nineteen Eighty-Four - required in High School The Catcher in the Rye On the Road Jack Kerouak The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton Cry the Beloved Country Paton The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood - really didn't ...

Oklahoma: Yes, I did like The Road. Sad, compelling, kept me reading till done. I recommend it.

... it wont be a bunch of 1,000 page books I'm hauling around. Slightly off question here but ppescosolido did you like The Road by Cormac McCarthy? I've been really tempted to buy it.

I am reading On the Road by Jack Kerouac

I am now reading On the Road by Jack Kerouac - I am ashamed to say but I have trying to read this book for seven years and have never completed it - this time I will

... maybe a mite too pat and predictable, I still thought it was terrific hard-core stuff and almost breathlessly readable. The Road by Cormac McCarthy turned out to be one of my favorite books of the year, a postapocalyptic nightmare of a story about a father and his young son trying to ...

... this to begin with: What's everyone reading at the moment, and what do you think of it? I'm currently about halfway through On the Road -- first time ever reading Kerouac, and I'm really liking it. There's something about his writing style that just sucks me in. Most of the time he's talking ...

... excuses for general ramshackleness. I acknowledge the flashes, oh yeah, sure. But the whole never even makes the sum of On the Road's parts worth the time and effort for me. I can't help wondering what would have happened if Kerouac had been edited by Maxwell Perkins, who edited Thomas W ...

Sure, On the Road is, formally, a shambling mess - but bits of it are beautiful. And those glimpses of beauty excuse a lot of its structural sins.

Another modern classic I just can't stand popped into my head today: On the Road by Jack Kerouac. I don't mind the scatteredness of the book, I mind the unending, self-referntial armpit-sniffing of the book. It never breaks out and makes itself more than an interesting experiment in style. ...

I got Cormac McCarthy's The Road in today's mail, and I went ahead and ordered a first edition of William T. Vollman's 1989 collection The Rainbow Stories, plus a copy of the new translation of War and Peace too.

... If you enjoyed other U.S. travel-type books such as William Least Heat Moon's Blue Highways or Kerouac's On the Road,... this book contains a lot of the same reflections on people, culture, history, social, and certainly gender issues; however, it is quite different - but in a ...

... though it was one of the books that it was cool to be seen reading in my hippie heyday. That and Lord of the Rings, and On the Road, two other colossal wastes of time. Honestly, I could add years to my life if I had the time I spent sitting around the student union with those books, ...

That's really intriguing. I thought part of the fame of On the Road was that it was supposed to have been published without a single edit. I guess that was an exaggeration...

... Started listening, got halfway through, bought the paperback, finished it. I don't think I could have got through On the Road without the audio either. So I've downloaded lots of other books, and ended up reading several I would never have thought to buy: Shalimar the Clown, The M ...

On the road sounds fine. Have you seen the picture of "the scroll" manuscript of OTR (I forget which book it was published in) where you can see the first few lines and they're different?: "I first met Neal not long after my father died. I had just gotten over a serious illness that I won't ...

should we start with on the road, or should we talk about something else?