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Movie: Rosemary's Baby

AmyG My most favorite movie. Definitely recommend! 11mo

Klou Perfect! 11mo

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Graywacke

Outer Dark | Cormac McCarthy

Yes, McCarthy has better stuff, like Blood Meridian and All the Pretty Horses, but it all starts here in this terrific early novel. Here he first creates that dark strange compelling narrative, and here the structure and the mindset are all laid out. The sparse dialogue, curious surreal oddities, and the gore - the realization that yes, he‘s going to go there.

See a lot more O‘s in the comments.

#Alphabetgame #LetterO @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Graywacke A miscellany of terrific O‘s: O Pioneers!-with Willa Cather‘s wonderful Alexandra; The Odyssey; Of Love and Other Demons (a Rapunzel retelling) and also One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Márquez; Omeros-Derek Walcott; One Summer: America 1927-one of the best by Bill Bryson; An Orchestra of Minorities-Chigozie Obiomaā€¦ ? (edited) 2y

Graywacke One more O: Our Parents Lives: The Americanization of Eastern European Jews-Neil and Ruth Cowan. This is an oral history of the children of Jewish immigrants (my grandparents‘s generation). It‘s not all immigrant struggle, but more insatiable youth. An eye-opening gem. 2y

vivastory To say that I am looking forward to the 2 forthcoming McCarthy novels is an understatement. He is my frontrunner for American to win the Nobel. Great post! 2y

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Graywacke @vivastory yeah, 2. Nice to find another McCarthy fan. He‘s an author I love but don‘t often recommend (and yet here I posted a recommendation). I don‘t know how I feel about these new two. First, do I want to go back into that mindset again? š™‚ And second, can he pull it off again, twice? I‘ll have to disarm that second question before I read them. 2y

batsy It seems wrong that I've gone this long without reading him. Feels like some of these are my kind of gloom and doom... š… 2y

erzascarletbookgasm Same here @batsy š‚. Seems a bit violent too.. 2y

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Thank you for playing! 2y

Graywacke @batsy I think you could tolerate CM. š™‚ @erzascarletbookgasm perhaps a bit (but he hardly peaks here!) @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks thanks! 2y

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ChelseaM6010

Outer Dark | Cormac McCarthy

My first dip into McCarthy!

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Captivatedbybooks

Outer Dark | Cormac McCarthy

@MiyakoBunny can you email me at Jennyr0528@gmail.com? Id like to mail back your book since #horrorpost is no longer in function.

I am collecting everyone‘s books i have and mailing them out to their owners this weekend since i am doing a very deep deep cleaning lol

MiyakoBunny Hi I emailed you back but I haven‘t gotten a reply 5y

Cinfhen Hey Jenny!!! Was just thinking about you. Hope you‘re well during these crazy times. 4y

Captivatedbybooks @Cinfhen HEY MY LOVE!!!! Im hanging in there. And you? How‘s the family here and at home? Hope all is well. ā¯£ļø¸ 4y

Cinfhen I‘m good!!!!! I‘m actually in Philly now...my daughter got engaged last week...super exciting š¨¾šˇā¯£ļø¸I‘m heading back on Nov 18. So happy you‘re back on Litsy š™š¸»š’•My reading has taken a hit but 2020 has been a HUGE dump-fire.... 4y

Captivatedbybooks @Cinfhen awww congrats on your daughters engagement! And I agree 2020 has definitely been a year of testing who you are 4y

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shendrix413

Outer Dark | Cormac McCarthy

Met someone reading this at the bar tonight figured I could use it for #popsugarchallenge2018 but he wasn't very encouraging as far as it being a great book... Hmmm...

DGRachel I haven‘t read this one, but I LOVE Cormac McCarthy. 7y

shendrix413 @DGRachel i do too! But this guy was saying his earlier work is different with punctuation š° and really pretty dark and depressing š¢ 7y

DGRachel It definitely sounds dark and depressing based on the description. I need to buy more of his work. The only one I have left unread on my shelves is Blood Meridian. 7y

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Lyn-Mara

Outer Dark | Cormac McCarthy

Dark & violent - this book was recommended to me by a man as he was tattooing my hip bone. After finishing this one, I rabidly read everything McCarthy I could get my hands on. No spoilers, but man oh man, that baby scene.

Makatma I have a love/hate relationship with McCarthy. The violence gets to me, but his imagery... 7y

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