May 20 2008
Books I Read Recently
No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
(8/10)
Engrossing, well-written novel about a sheriff tracking down a killer who’s after someone that stumbled on some drug money in the middle of a desert. I wouldn’t want to see the well-reviewed movie if it portrays the violence in the book.
Rollback by Robert J. Sawyer
(7/10)
A science-fiction novel that won the Hugo and Nebula Awards. As I’ve written before, Sawyer comes up with brilliant ideas, but his mainstream writing style is boring, plus he fills his books with too many popular cultural references; I got tired of coming across them. Still, I couldn’t put the damn thing down.
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose by Eckhart Tolle
(4/10)
Another Canadian (Sawyer above is one), Oprah popularized this. I couldn’t get past the first 50 pages. Mumbo-jumbo garbage about living one’s potential in society, trying to acheive personal fulfillment. Someone told me to just read Chapter Four, but I haven’t; what I read turned me off completely.
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Tags: book reviews, cormac mccarthy, eckhart tolle, robert j sawyer, rollback
I don’t remember the movie being too violent. It’s has some violence, but it’s not too graphic. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
There’s a scene in the movie No Country For Old Men that you sent me (youtube, I think), I think (I couldn’t find a post on SWT about it), where the killer’s in a gas station and tells the guy to flip a coin. The movie scene was taken verbatim from the novel; it’s excellent.
That is a pretty tense scene. I was sure buddy was gonna die. The movie was good. I was a little shocked at the ending.
just started re reading the hornblower series from start to finish….ten or eleven books…..fluffy….formulaic…but I love em as a go to bed fall asleep read….” get up into the top gallents…reef those sails….be smart about it or feel the lash of the cat….” ohhhh arrrgghhhhh