[kj] OT: Cormac McCarthy, after the Global Holocaust

[uncle benny's magical bra & liquorice factory]

Thanks Oliver.
That looks interesting -
I am so bored by all these 'plots by numbers' books that are everywhere.
It's so hard to find something fresh & different so will check that out
further.

jamie


On 24/7/07 13:13, "B. Oliver Sheppard" wrote:


> I don't know how many of you have heard of the American writer Cormac

> McCarthy, whose recent novel, The Road, won the Pulitzer Prize in April,

> 2007.

> 

> Anyway, I thought the book might be of some interest to Killing Joke

> fans because it's excellently written and takes place in a

> post-apocalyptic, post-nuclear holocaust planet earth, bringing to mind

> the stuff Jaz Coleman used to talk about in the 80s and I guess still

> does in all his stuff about armageddon. It seems like the sort of book

> Jaz would like to read, in other words. In The Road, the earth is in a

> state of perpetual nuclear winter and gangs of gasmask-wearing,

> marauding cannibals stalk the weak, who are often dying of radiation

> sickness and/or starvation.

> 

> I wrote a review & description of the book here:

> 

> http://www.cultpunk.com/?p=173

> 

> 

> -Oliver