Tag Archives: Suttree

LITERATURE: Character Build

Posted on June 12, 2005 by susan

There’s much going through my head this morning about characters within a story and I’ll be posting more on it later, but I wanted to get the base down now–before I go write up sales slips and plant geraniums. We … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Character

Posted on June 10, 2005 by susan

Dorothy Parker’s characters are real to me, perhaps because of the era, perhaps because, though this was not as my family lived, it was something I had watched in nightly movies on Channel 5’s The Early show. McCarthy’s characters are … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE & REALITY: Suttree and Me

Posted on June 10, 2005 by susan

Okay, so who here knows what’s going on?  Really?  Don’t lie or try to slip one by me in a rowboat while I’m trying not to tip my own canoe.  Because I’ll know, you see, I’ll know.  I’ll see through … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Suttree

Posted on June 9, 2005 by susan

I’m still re-reading, and find that I can’t really just skim through because McCarthy’s writing style is not something that you can skim, nor would you want to.  In fact, his work needs to be read several times, especially if … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Suttree

Posted on June 8, 2005 by susan

I’m finding things in Suttree I think I missed the first time around.  It makes me think that even though I’m skimming through the first half over again, when I get beyond the point I’ve read before I may still … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Suttree

Posted on June 7, 2005 by susan

Had lost my way, backtracked a bit, no loss of awe the second time around.  McCarthy gives a dreary life, well…life.  Listen to this: "The old man gave him a little crooked grin, his jawseams grouted with black spittle." Tobacco … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Suttree

Posted on January 24, 2005 by susan

I have spent days walking through the backstreets of 1951 Knoxville, Tennessee.  With Suttree, catching fish, fighting cats that claim his catch before I get them.  Finding why the river is so flowing with the entrails not only of the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Suttree

Posted on January 21, 2005 by susan

A bit of a strange phenomenon happening with this reading.  The "wow" factor of reading McCarthy is not interfering with the story. It’s not, I’m sure, a disenchantment with McCarthy’s writing, but rather a getting used to and taking for … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Suttree

Posted on January 13, 2005 by susan

For me, one of the hallmarks of good writing and the essence of reading enjoyment is the relationship one finds in another’s written words to make the reading meaningful.  Experiencing of an event, once turned into memory, changes just through … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA & LITERATURE: Back to McCarthy

Posted on January 11, 2005 by susan

In going into that hallway to prepare for battle again and again, I find myself fascinated by the video that the first couple of times around well serves to shock and strike such fear. It is unreal, a monstrous halfway-human … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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