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More on the basketball star -- many may remember him tor the harry, harry chorus in Stokely Athletic Center who slaked UA students thirst:
Harry Hammonds Has Died
why clutter up words with quotation marks --- that's roughly what Carmac said about punctuation
 
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ArdentVol said:
Understanding Cormac McCarthy
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I haven't read all of his books, but my impression is he was a great writer, able to paint extravagant and colorfully in-depth pictures with his words. He also developed characters extremely well. All that is well and good and wonderful. But his subject matter was seemingly always drenched in blood, gore, and violence and doom and gloom. Made it hard for me to read much of his works.
 
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Danl said:
I haven't read all of his books, but my impression is he was a great writer, able to paint extravagant and colorfully in-depth pictures with his words. He also developed characters extremely well. All that is well and good and wonderful. But his subject matter was seemingly always drenched in blood, gore, and violence and doom and gloom. Made it hard for me to read much of his works.
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MrsAV shares that opinion. Said there's no good reason to read doom and gloom. I dont know what my mother, a Knoxvillian and book clubber, would think of The Road, etc, but she enjoyed his early work, and I've never asked my son (who makes a living from modern American novels) how he would rate McCarthy's ouvre. No Country ... is one of my favorite films
 
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