|
Loading...
| |
| Topics | | messages | Last message | | | 1001 Books to read before you die : Your one "I cant believe it's not in there" book | | 116 | Proverbsforparanoids, July 15 |  |
| List Five Books Parlour Game : Green Glass Door | | 10 | AMQS, July 2 | |
| Book talk : No Country For Old Men | | 19 | fleela, April 11 | |
| The Green Dragon : Have you been bad recently (bought any books), Part 4 | | 431 | clamairy, April 8 | |
| Reading Globally : Describe your reading year | | 27 | almigwin, March 30 | |
| 1001 Books to read before you die : Message Board | | 82 | VivianeoftheLake, February 19 | |
| Dormant: The Green Dragon : List your books here! One book per post!! :) | | 110 | clamairy, January 8 | |
| Dormant: Deep South : Message Board | | 76 | andyray, December 2007 | |
| Dormant: Reading the States : Reading about Tennessee | | 10 | hailey459, October 2007 | |
| Dormant: Books Compared : Suttree/Tortilla Flat | | 16 | rufustfirefly66, October 2007 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 30 Dec 2006 | | 128 | jcasteel, January 2007 | |
| Dormant: Deep South : Book of the Month | | 14 | Dystopos, October 2006 | |
| 75 Books Challenge for 2008 : TrishNYC's Attempt at the 75 book Challenge | | 136 | Whisper1, Yesterday 1:48pm |
 |
| What Are You Reading Now? : Literary ADD | | 89 | bnbooklady, July 10 |
|
| What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - March. 2008 | | 273 | Talbin, April 2 |
|
... To think that I could read some other book, while at the same time I was still reading Anna Karenina, or Suttree, or The Sound and the Fury? I couldn't do it and don't want to try.
Edited to add my one-word titles, because I was too dense to catch on the first time:
Suttree
Vendetta
Cataloochee
Typee
Hawaii
The Buffalo Tree
The Essential Poodle
Toot and Puddle
The Moosewood Cookbook (EXTRA POINTS!!)
The Pill Book I haven't yet read Suttree, as I buy and read mostly used books and that is a more difficult find. One warning. Reading all of his works means reading Blood Meridian. I am a huge McCarthy fan but this was a very difficult book to get through. Though many consider it to be his masterpiece ... ... I was reading No country for old men while riding the train and this guy told me that his favorite McCathy book is Suttree. I had never heard of this particular McCarthy work but seeing as I like his stuff so much, I may end up reading all of his stuff.
I hope you get to read the ... His lesser works!? While the trilogy is McCarthy at his apex, Blood Meridian probably bests all three, and Suttree is up in the mix as well. I recently picked up another of his lesser-known works, Outer Dark, which I did not get into at first and almost stopped reading. Then I figured out ... Wow, Grammath, Sometimes A Great Notion and Suttree are just out-of-this-world novels, hope you like them as much as I did. ... Waters
No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith by Peter Carey
Suttree by Cormac McCarthy
"Time Out" London Eating and Drinking Guide
"Time Out" London Cheap Eats
... by Ken Kesey
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
Suttree by Cormac McCarthy
The Devil's Star by Jo Nesbo
Time Out London Eating and Drinking Guide for 2008
were added to the Library. SOMETHING by Cormac McCarthy: how about Blood Meridian? (even if my personal favorite is Suttree!)
Someone mentioned Thorton Wilder, who's also a big omission: how about The Bridge of San Luis Rey?
I would have thought there would be more Faulkner. ... Suttree really is my favorite, with Blood Meridian a close second. No one EVER agrees with me, but I think the ending of Suttree is actually uplifting, in an existential (I mean that in the purest, French-most sense of the term) sort of way. I'd be interested to hear what you think when you ... Suttree by Cormac McCarthy is my favorite book and has been for years, thus withstanding my changing tastes' test of time.
Someone once asked me why I bothered wearing anything but plain white underwear. I replied that it made my butt happy. She said that she'd asked someone else, and ... ... Eloy Martinez
re-read Ulysses--James Joyce
April
Generations of Winter--Vassily Aksyonov
Suttree--Cormac McCarthy
May
The Savage Detectives--Roberto Bolano--favorite book of the year.
June
The Zero train--Yuri Buida
The Stalin front-- ... ... writing is so interesting and varied, and so are the plots, that I find it difficult to decide.
I have never read Suttree. What is it about? As it happens raggedprince I'm a little over halfway through Suttree at the moment and hope to finish maybe by monday or tuesday. It's very very good. I haven't read a lot of Steinbeck--my favorite of his so far would be In dubious battle ... not knowing, I did some research. Cormac McCarthy's first book, The Orchard Keeper is set in rural Tennessee. So is Suttree. I have not read either one. But I will.
And what I was trying to remember in the original post was Shelby Foote's Shiloh. An excellent Civil War ... ... I've read 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. ... similar) that are writing currently ? My favourite authors at the moment are Cormac McCarthy (All the Pretty Horses, Suttree; rather than Blood Meridian and No Country for Old Men), William Gay (Provinces of Night, The Long Home), Kent Haruf (Eventide, Plainsong) and ... ... has won the inaugural "Deep South Book of the Month challenge" by contributing the best review of Cormac McCarthy's Suttree to LibraryThing. He has therefore earned the privilege of selecting the assignment for September. Congratulations! Reminder: 1 day left to post reviews of Suttree to LibraryThing before we move on to the next book. (See Message 37 above) ... some reason the literature always appeals to me, hopefully this is a good enough reason to be allowed in your group!
Re: Suttree, Cormac McCarthy is easily my favourite writer. Once I've read something I normally pass it on to friends or the charity shop once I've finished it, unless they're ... It's been a couple years since I read Suttree so I decided to refresh myself before contributing a review. Only 50 pages in (so much other reading simultaneously) but thoroughly enjoying it. ... easily merited inclusion, but it so happens that over in the "Deep South" thread, we're discussing Cormac McCarthy's Suttree this month, probably one of the greatest books of the last fifty years, so I checked and there's not a single mention of this landmark novel, nor of Blood Meridian ... ... don't trawl this group for advice. Only reviews which become visible on the page that appears when I click the blue word "Suttree" will be entered into the judging.
For bonus points you might describe where the work stands in relation to LT's "Special Sauce" recommendations, which in this ... Suttree is truly Cormac's magnus opus. He worked on it for 20 years, and after it was published, the good folk of Knoxville, Tn. generally weren't too happy with him or his reasonably grim portrayal of their fair city. Up until Cormac's book, Knoxville had been quite smugly content to be a Ja ... (sorry for the errors above, the first book "will be" Suttree) ... has the honor of selecting the next book to be honored.
The first Book of the Month, as already discussed above, will by Suttree by Cormac McCarthy. So far no reviews appear on LibraryThing outside of this message board, so the contest is wide open. Ya'll have until September 1, 2006 to ... Great discussion of Suttree! I humbly suggest you all copy your reviews into the review field of the "edit" page where the rest of LT can benefit from your experiences without having to read through all of our chit-chat. ... and equally charming, and I'm becoming a fan of your's already. Thanks again.
I first read Cormac McCarthy's Suttree when it came out in 1979, read it once more in the early 90s, and just finished reading it yet again back in May of this year. I think it's hands-down the finest ... Not a short story but my all-time favorite piece of Southern Lit might by Cormac McCarthy's Suttree. any other fans McCarthy in the group?
|
|
