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4 reviews
John Sepich

Bellarmine College Press, 1993

I finally got my hands on a copy, and it's great!
After years of hearing about Notes On Blood Meridan by John Sepich, but not wanting to pay US$400 for a copy, I finally went down to my local branch of the public library and requested a copy through the inter-library loan department. In a few weeks a copy was delivered and now I have the copy right in front of me. (The inter-library loan fee was $10.00 but that's better than paying someone ...

The Counsels of Cormac: An Ancient Irish Guide to Leadership

2 reviews

Doubleday, 2004

My Grandmother would have loved this book!
She was never short on pride for her native Ireland and always emphasized the richer, positive aspects of Irish culture (not drunken leprechauns). This new translation would surely have made her proud as it shows the the depth of Irish history and the splendor of Irish wisdom. Very readable. I recommend it for anyone looking to expand their knowledge of leadership or Ireland. And I'd say ...

Gods and Fighting Men

4 reviews

LeClue22, 2008

This is THE actual Book of Irish Mythology
Gods and Fighting Men is an excellent resource because it preserves the lore from the Book of Invasions as well as other sources -- the legends of the earliest inhabitants of Ireland, the coming of the Tuatha De Danaan (The People of Dana) and the stories of Finn MacCumhail. What is portrayed as "Early Irish Mythology" 99% of the time actually isn't -- the dozens of translations of The Tain, ...

No Place for Home: Spatial Constraint and Character Flight in the Novels of Cormac McCarthy

2 reviews

Routledge, 2006

A Masterful Tribute to America's Best Novelist
Jay Ellis's delightfully original and urbane treatment of the finest American novelist since Faulkner and Hemingway exemplifies the best tradition of crossover criticism. In a style that is edgy, electric, and intensely personal, Ellis probes into the complex worlds of McCarthy's fiction as if they were matters of life and death, which of course they are. Ellis's range of psychological, ...

Blood Meridian

11 reviews
Cormac McCarthy

Peter Smith Publisher, 1992

Apocalyptic
This novel is landmark. McCarthy uses settings and actual events of the American west to cut away the superfluous flesh of modern fiction and reveal humanity's rawest. Also a fan of other great southern writers like Faulkner and Penn Warren, I found the prose of Blood Meridian tearfully beautiful and the content atrociously engaging. The portraits he paints of scene and deed are unrivaled; such ...

Black '47 and Beyond: The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory (Princeton Economic History of ...

2 reviews
Cormac O'Grada

Princeton University Press, 2000

Essential but not easy or pleasant reading.
Both the tragic subject and the density of documentation, with graphs and statistics, make this a hard book to read. The Famine killed over a million people, even on the most conservative estimates. It virtually wiped out the Gaeltacht. The question that resonates today is whether fewer people would have died if Ireland in 1840 had been an independent country, with its boundaries at the salt ...

Cormac's Corner

8 reviews
Cormac MacConnell

Greenbranch Co Llc, 2000

I loved this book!
Cormac MacConnell paints pictures with words, taking the reader down uncharted paths....a master storyteller, he draws us into another world. In the great tradition of Charles Kuralt, Charles Osgood, and Robert Fulghum, MacConnell has compiled his "slice of life" stories into a charming book. As Kuralt spun stories about ordinary Americans doing extraordinary things, MacConnell, too, ...

Birds of America

2 reviews
Mary McCarthy

Harcourt, 1992

A really first-rate novel by a first-rate writer
Mary McCarthy has never gotten her due as a prose writer and this -- her best novel -- seems to have been overlooked. This is the story of a young man 's emancipation from his very much loved mother (with whom he has an almost romantic relationship based on her attractiveness and their shared sensibility). They construct an ideal life together in which they eschew all "modern" conveniences ...

A Reader's Guide to Blood Meridian

2 reviews

Bon Mot Publishing, 2008

If only all McCarthy novels had a companion guide like this!
For anyone looking to improve their understanding of Blood Meridian, this guide is a must-have. It covers the novel in a clear, beginning-to-end format allowing you to refer back to the guide with ease any time that you come across one of the myriad unfamiliar words, phrases, historical persons and places found in McCarthy's rich literary landscape. There is an amazing amount of information ...

A Reader's Guide to Blood Meridian

2 reviews
Shane Schimpf

Bon Mot Publishing, 2006

A valuable source
A READER'S GUIDE TO BLOOD MERIDIAN is just what the title proclaims, providing a comprehensive glossary for all of the difficult terms, translations of the novel's many foreign words and phrases, and much of the lore behind the novel's historical characters and places. Shane Schimpf provides an overview first, which includes a Nietzsche-derived interpretation of the novel. While this ...

CARRETERA, LA (Literatura Mondadori)

1 review
Cormac Mccarthy

Random House Mondadori, 2007

La Carretera - triste, inspiradora y EXCELENTE
Lei este libro cuando recién salio en ingles. Puedo confirmarles que se trata de una joya literaría. Es extremadamente triste y por momentos muy angustiante. Se trata de la historia de un padre y su hijo. Ambos vagan sin rumbo fijo por la carretera. El mundo como lo conocemos ha dejado de existir, todo esta quemado, hay tribus de canibales y peligros por todos lados y no pueden confiar en nadie. ...

Cormac 07/sign Moonbo

1 review
Andrew J. Offutt

Ace, 1980

The Last Roman
Syagrius, the last Roman commander in the West, makes an appearance in this book. He accepts the aid of Cormac Mac Art and Wulfhere the Skull-Splitter in defending Sossions against Clovis. Tied in with the historical fact of Syagrius' defeat in 486, which ended Roman control of southern Gaul, and marked the end of his 10-year holdout after the fall of Rome, this final work in the series ...

Covenanted Happiness - Love and Commitment in Marriage

1 review
Cormac Burke

Scepter Publishers, 2007

An Incredible, Life Changing, Marriage Enriching Book!
This book is incredible! I mean truly - every Catholic should read this book, and certainly all those Catholics who are married or who plan to marry! Msgr Burke is truly gifted. I have read a lot on the theology of the body, humanae vitae, etc, and yet - I picked up this book and it blew me away! His explanations of Church teaching and of the meaning and purpose of marriage are just ...

Intellectual Memoirs: New York, 1936-1938

1 review
Mary McCarthy

Harcourt, 1992

Beautiful and Wise
In some ways, I feel MacCarthy's writing soars in her memoirs t even higher heights than in her fiction. She paints a wonderfully compelling picture of a time, a place, gender and politics.

Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses: A Reader's Guide (Continuum Contemporaries)

1 review
Stephen Tatum

Continuum, 2002

excellent insight
though need to get out the dictionary sometimes: mythopoetic gestures, profundity, epitome.... this is really excellent; looking forward to rereading the 20 cent copy of all the preety horses i just ordered with my girlfriend and this book's insights into this great writer (my favorite)

The Late Modernism of Cormac McCarthy: (Contributions to the Study of World Literature)

1 review
David Holloway

Greenwood Press, 2002

New Perspective Feels Like Home To Me
Anyone who has read much McCarthy develops a feel for his world, and David Holloway's analysis doesn't try to alter that as much as to awaken you to what was there all along. The "late modern" McCarthy writes on his own terms, often creating a mythology all his own. And McCarthy is definitely a blue collar writer. Legends abound about him disdaining commercialism and refusing money when he had ...

The Stonemason

2 reviews
Cormac McCarthy

Picador, 1997

Thank God for Cormac McCarthy
I don't usually read plays, but I bought this one because, after finishing _Cities of the Plain_, I had read all of Cormac McCarthy's novels and was hungry for more. I was not disappointed. McCarthy's genius is no less evident in _The Stonemason_ than in any of his longer works; if anything, the shorter format of drama allows him to pack even more of his brilliant writing into every page. Many ...

Wild Law

2 reviews
Cormac Cullinan

Siber Ink, South Africa, 2002

The most significant work on envirinmental law written to date
This is the wisest and clearest book written on environmental law I have read. It focuses on the root cause of environmental destruction and shows us that by becoming more earth centric within law (i.e. we are not at the centre of the universe but are part of a greater system that includes the earth) we can integrate human behaviour into the ecosystem and therefore have healthier planet and ...

Irish First, European Second

1 review
Cormac Keegan

PublishAmerica, 2003

A brilliant read
I have just finished Frank McCourt's "Angela's Ashes" and I was interested in reading anything else on the topic. Keegan's book is brilliant. Lots of dark, sad images but also quite a bit in there to really make one laugh. I got through it in three days. It must be good... Otti Kuhn

Blood Meridian (Unabridged)

1 review
Cormac McCarthy

audible.com

A Cormac McCarthy vocabulary quiz
As I read Blood Meridian, I jotted down words that were either unusual or new to me or familiar yet not quite recognizable. This is the case with every McCarthy book one reads - astonishment at the writer's extensive vocabulary. I've deliberately left out most of the directly Spanish terms or Mexican off-shoots. So, anyway, here is one list of words you need to know in order to read Blood ...

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