The Frame

There are a lot of good sections in the book, but the ending is disappointing.

by Tom Weiner
I didn’t read every word of this, but since I managed to make it through the month of December without reading a single book completely, I figured I could at least recommend this one. In this book of film recommendations, Wiener considers anything not primarily financed by one of the major Hollywood studios. [...]

Even with my love of ambiguous endings I would’ve liked a bit more resolution. There were four or five, though, that were quite evocative.

There was not a single thing I liked about this book, not its characters, not its story, not its technique.

by Cormac McCarthy
One of my best friends is doing her dissertation on McCarthy, and I’ve been promising her for a year that I’d read something by him. I debated making it No Country for Old Men on account of the Coen brothers film version coming out, like, this week, but my friend warned me that [...]