Cormac McCarthy wrote the book and I may have more to say on McCarthy elsewhere. NCFOM was a quite exceptional movie. I think the key to its’ success was that everything was kept very low key, the sort of grandiose scenes one usually assosciates with the West, or Western themes are quite demure. There are some remarkable vistas […]
Good Book
Well, this book is aptly titled. I must confess that possibly Boyd is not the genius I proclaimed him in an earlier post. Bored and in need of some novel to read I drove, last night, through the heavy rain and traffic to the city (university) library. I had with me a detailed list of […]
Being a newish sort of tennis fan, I have only been watching and playing the game for about two years, I am not sure it behooves me to comment on the decline of Roger Federer, tennis player extraordinaire and legend in his own day. However, because I am a huge fan of Federer, and because […]
or, the Life of Logan Mountstuart Writ Large. Bad Aspects out of the way first: This book is written in a journal format over the course of Mountstuart’s life. As my suggested subtitle reads, sometimes I wondered whether AHH didn’t unnecessarily glorify the protaganist’s shortcomings. Inevitably, the book does drag in places and I confess that […]
Having read this book with some interest after finishing it I did my (now) customary google research to find out a little more about it. The one interesting thing I found is that apprently Edward Norton will direct and star in an adaptation of the book. The question is, will he play the Tourette’s afflicted […]
In General, there will be no plot synopsises on this site, if anyone ever comes to this site I may start writing them but really, this is just a good way of forcing myself to write something. I realised the necessity of this particular post when I noticed a reviewer on Amazon had mentioned Steven […]
Hello, this blog will contain anything I deem worthwhile talking about. Books / Movies will be big here. Cricket / Tennis and anything else that crops up along the way. The Outlaw is sick of whiny political blogs in particular. As a rule, politics will not be discussed here, nor sports outside those listed. If […]