Cormac McCarthy--dead at 89--from New York Times

Writing Till the End

Mr. McCarthy sold his archives, 98 boxes of letters, drafts, notes and unpublished work, to Texas State University in 2008 for $2 million. A year later, the Olivetti typewriter on which he’d written each of his novels sold at auction for $254,500. He immediately began working on a new Olivetti, the same model, purchased for less than $20. NYT

I've read 2 of his books, I think Pretty Horses and Blood Meridian.

Very "photographic" like shadows and reflections and slow action.

One included making gunpowder.

That's all I remember.

The Road is absolutely too bleak to read, though for a couple of years I read apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic novels.

Nevil Shute, On the Beach and JD Ballard Drowned World, the best and quite a lot of Stephen Baxter, also a novel about watery end--very believable, as is Evolution and the one about mammoths--Behemoth.

The difference between The Road and these is that there is still enough left for some story.

Ashfall series is also good. YA.

Tool of War also good--

Also The Passage books--by Justin Cronin, but 1st one the best--about kind of super vampires.

Kyi May

6-13-2023