http://newcritics.disqus.com/the best in web criticismenWed, 18 Apr 2007 07:18:42 -0000http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/04/16/on-the-road-with-america/#comment-1374757<p>I'll never forget the first picture of prisoners from Afghanistan with fucking hoods over their heads. Since when did we become the guys who tied prisoners' hands behind their backs and put hoods over their heads? Since then. Thanks, George, all of a sudden you made us not so proud to be Americans. And then it got worse.</p><p>Getting back to "The Road", one thing I liked about it was its freedom from a lot of the bullshit you find in McCarthy's other novels: the wisdom-spouting ancient Mexicans and laconic old cowpokes, the characters thinking thoughts that those characters would never think, all this mixed in with truly great writing. Of course "The Road" did share the humorlessness of his other books, but what's so fucking funny about the end of the world.</p>Dan LeoWed, 18 Apr 2007 07:18:42 -0000http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/04/16/on-the-road-with-america/#comment-1374756<p>Tom, is the two-paragraph quotation from The Road?</p>John BakerTue, 17 Apr 2007 01:58:09 -0000http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/04/16/on-the-road-with-america/#comment-1374754<p>Bleak irony that McCarthy's "The Road" would be so rightfully honored on such a day as today.</p>Mark J. McPhersonMon, 16 Apr 2007 18:08:09 -0000