tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post3179182218114770367..comments2024-01-06T10:36:04.084-05:00Comments on A Commonplace Blog: Charles McCarryD. G. Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10659136455045567825noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post-86661500380631130552013-02-21T22:11:22.252-05:002013-02-21T22:11:22.252-05:00Charles is one my second cousins, and I am proud t...Charles is one my second cousins, and I am proud to be related to him. I have been writing since I was in kindergarten, so when I discovered that Charles was author, I was surprised. I am nearly finished with my first book, Laura, and with my short story, Bending Reality. My third (a fantasy novel) is a quarter of the way in also. Emma McCarrynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post-43916814526157446132012-05-14T19:42:42.573-04:002012-05-14T19:42:42.573-04:00My mom and dad say that Charles is one of my dista...My mom and dad say that Charles is one of my distant cousins! It would be incredible to meet him! I'm starting to write as well, and am almost finished with my first book, which is SF, fantasy, and some other genres to. Weird.....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post-56051146204721911972009-03-19T19:27:00.000-04:002009-03-19T19:27:00.000-04:00Le Carre, i think, has displaced what he doesn't l...Le Carre, i think, has displaced what he doesn't like about the West, our governments and civil service, onto the Americans. i have no idea if this is fair or not. i feel his fiction largely survives his grievances, because he does dialogue and plot very well, but i confess to being largely ignorant of politics, and i rather like his idea of bowler-hatted civil servants deciding matters over cups of tea in quiet London offices...not really up-to-date, i fear.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post-59112590063147857732009-03-19T16:51:00.000-04:002009-03-19T16:51:00.000-04:00Shelley’s Heart makes such a powerful case against...<I>Shelley’s Heart</I> makes such a powerful case against the American march-through-the-institutions left that Hitchens had to make a preemptive strike against it.<BR/><BR/>As I’ve suggested, though, he and McCarry are now much closer politically than they were in 1995. McCarry even has the tone of an internal critic—a jilted liberal.<BR/><BR/>As for Le Carré, the difference is this. McCarry does <I>not</I> believe in the moral equivalence of the West and its enemies, even if he also does not believe that the West is pure good and its enemies, pure evil.D. G. Myershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10659136455045567825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3458341.post-62182894514087737502009-03-19T16:43:00.000-04:002009-03-19T16:43:00.000-04:00i like the 3 McCarry novels i've read. C Hitchens'...i like the 3 McCarry novels i've read. C Hitchens' review of 'Shelley's Heart' was so vitriolic i thought the novel (which i haven't read) must either be much much worse than those i had read, or Hitchens was doing a purposeful hatchet job; the latter, most likely.<BR/><BR/>McCarry seems to share with his near namesake LeCarre a sense that a good Intelligent service will naturally be on 'the right side', i guess because sane self-serving decisions tend to be in everyone's best interests, however muddily. Perhaps we have more to fear from lunatics and puritans than from down-to-earth bad men with good intelligence.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com