Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Getting caught up on reviews

Frankenstein, or: The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

The Sunset Limited by Cormac McCarthy

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Frankenstein, or: The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley (5 stars) As I slowly make way through books most of you read in grade school, I’m learning that these books have staying power for a reason. I’ve liked the vast majority of them. Sometimes, I don’t know how I made it through school without having read them before, but my ability to avoid school work should never be underestimated. This book was phenomenal. Melodramatic, and the prose, though beautiful, was a bit antiquated and florid, but […]

Agony

Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy

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I pushed through and read Stella Maris, the companion novel to The Passenger, because it looked like a quick read due to its page count and the fact that it was all dialogue. The novel focuses on a series of conversation between Alicia Western, mathematics prodigy and sister of The Passenger’s protagonist Bobby Western, and her therapist. Alicia has checked herself into an institution where she had previously been involuntarily admitted. Her brother is in a foreign hospital in a coma and his chances aren’t […]

Defeat

The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy

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With all due respect to the recently departed, I have no idea what this book was about. I don’t know if there was a story at all. I know there was one character who started out as a deep-sea diver who got involved with a suspicious plane crash, but instead of investigating that crash he just seemed to have a bunch of tortured conversations with drunks and other people at the margins of society. Apparently our main character was both a former physics student and […]

I don’t want to be that guy….but Cormac McCarthy wrote a really good book.

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

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I sometimes think of myself as a smart man. But I’m not a smart man. I’m just interested in a lot of things, so I have a tendency to look into a lot of things. That gives me a broad but fairly shallow knowledge base upon which I can build my reality. Since I go wherever my interests direct me, I can’t always predict where I’ll be, or what I’ll experience. When I try and set a course, I find that I start to drift […]

For one reason or another, I did not finish these

Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

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Fingerprints of the Gods (1 star) I’ve always been fascinated by the world of constructed reality, whether it be conspiracy theory or pseduoscience or just general disinformation and propaganda. Fascinated in a “I hate this so much but can’t disengage because I must punish myself for some inexplicable reason” kind of way. When I was in college, I spent an embarrassingly large amount of my free time arguing with young earth creationists on the internet. It so interested me that I wrote my thesis on […]

Paula Vogel (1), Lynn Nottage (1), Dario Fo (1), Lillian Hellman (1-2), Cormac McCarthy (1)

How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel

Fabulation by Lynn Nottage

The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman

The Autumn Garden by Lillian Hellman

The Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo

The Counselor by Cormac McCarthy

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How I Learned to Drive “Sometimes to tell a secret, you first have to teach a lesson.” I first read this book in college when I was taking an Intro to Theater class in college where among other things I had to read a bunch of plays and see a bunch of performances. I reread it in part because I know there’s a new performance or maybe recent performance out there. The title “How I Learned to Drive” refers specifically to some “driving lessons” with […]



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