This is from one of the final paragraphs from "The Road". Please read it sometime. For a modern novel, it changed my way of thinking about writing. His other novels were just as brutal, beautiful, and hard. ("All the Pretty Horses, "No Country for Old Men").
"She said the breath of God was his breath yet though it pass from man to man through all of time."
He is the modern version of Hemingway- although to give him credit-not copying Hemingway at all. In this time, in our time, his novels stand out completely. I don't have the time to read alot each day- perhaps one hour at night. Most of the time, I read old poetry books, new anthologies, and forensics mysteries that are best sellers (Kellerman, Cornwell, JD Robb) that are given to us by the bagfull by a very generous family member. These novels are well written, sometimes deep and have alot to offer. but it is fun to peruse the fiction sections of modern novelists for the literature of our day....and Cormac has it down to a science. If you ever read anything in your life, read some of his novels.
You may hate them, or you may fall in love. Just like some of his stories that have been made into film...it's not for everyone.
Enjoy!
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