Archive for February, 2008

Feb 03 2008

After Dark by Haruki Murakami

Published by mark under Book reviews

Murakami’s writing is always delicate, deft and intriguing. In After Dark, his eleventh novel, all the usual elements are there: the closely observed city, the odd characters, the strange timing, the surreal events. But in this one there’s a new development — the explicit use of point of view as a character in the story.

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Feb 03 2008

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Published by mark under Book reviews

Set in a post-apocalypse world, still smouldering, ash-strewn, cluttered with junk remains of human civilisation, a man and his son travel along a road, heading south and west, away from winter and towards the ocean.

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