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

[bongo]

cheers, i'll check it out when i can find a 2nd hand copy for ten
bucks or less... (i'm a cheap cnut!)

sounds similar to Natures End, by Whitley Strieber...


On 7/25/07, B. Oliver Sheppard <bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net> 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

>

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