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torn-a-do, torn-ah-do
Jan. 12th, 2008 01:40 pmI hung out with my folks last night, and this morning we went out to see where the tornado hit the other day. It's so fucking surreal. I mean, it touched down less than five minutes from my parents' house, and it threw grocery carts across the street at the Winco I used to do my groceries at. I'm glad no one was hurt by the whole thing, but I'm still astonished that tornados in Washington are basically like earthquakes -- they happen all the damn time, but they're usually so small or in a remote enough area that no one thinks anything of it. The things I learn.
This is unrelated, but...The Road, by Cormac McCarthy? Is incredible so far. I've been wanting to read his stuff for a while, but I'd heard mixed things about his writing style, which is one of those that's very different and therefore polarizing. It took me a few pages to get used to the lack of quotation marks, and for a while I felt like someone had given him a very small box of commas to work with -- hence all the fragments, and the clauses strung together with various conjunctions -- but now that I've settled into it? DAMN. The guy's good. Quirks that would annoy the crap out of me with lesser writers end up serving the story in this case, and I suspect I'm going to finish the book tonight, because I desperately need to find out what happens to these two characters. Given the kind of world the story's set in, I'm worried the outcome isn't going to be a pleasant one. My heart is already clenching up in self-defense.
This is unrelated, but...The Road, by Cormac McCarthy? Is incredible so far. I've been wanting to read his stuff for a while, but I'd heard mixed things about his writing style, which is one of those that's very different and therefore polarizing. It took me a few pages to get used to the lack of quotation marks, and for a while I felt like someone had given him a very small box of commas to work with -- hence all the fragments, and the clauses strung together with various conjunctions -- but now that I've settled into it? DAMN. The guy's good. Quirks that would annoy the crap out of me with lesser writers end up serving the story in this case, and I suspect I'm going to finish the book tonight, because I desperately need to find out what happens to these two characters. Given the kind of world the story's set in, I'm worried the outcome isn't going to be a pleasant one. My heart is already clenching up in self-defense.
