DFinBerkeley

Cormac McCarthy: trailblazer or gore-monger?

The Road was a masterpiece. All the Pretty Horses was excellent, but his interest in the blood and guts of things often dissuades me. What do you think?

Haven't read the book yet so I don't really know the context, but choosing one over the other is like asking if I prefer my arms or my nose. I'm pretty ... More

>> what's the net emotion that you come away with after all is said and done. Net depressing or net heartening?

You feel both the darkness that ... More

This book is changing my life

Wow! By using petroleum products to make huge amounts of fertilizer in order to force-grow ridiculous amounts of corn to use in just about every processed food, we're essentially turning oil into "food". How gross is that? As if we need another reason to wean ourselves from oil.

But it's interesting ... More