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I guess this man was a great writer. I never heard of this man prior to reading this steady essay about him. Thanks for sharing with us anyway.

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This is such a wonderful tribute!

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What a beautiful tribute to an amazing writer! His book were (are) challenging, unrelenting and haunting. Darkness tinged with optimism. Such brutality and undying love & compassion within each story. But, most of all, his stories are unforgettable!

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Well, DAN & ELLIOT, you got my curiosity up, so I went over to Google to find their BOOKS platform which I’ve used before. It offered me a good sample of the book and offered many way of obtaining a copy. If your readers are interested in Mr McCarthy’s style, I encourage them to go and enjoying his wonderful style of painting with words.

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What a poignant and powerful tribute to a writer's favorite writer, story seeker, and human. Writing a eulogy is the hardest of all writing work because it allows only for essential truths. As much as our experience with them could fill books, essential truths are what connects and communicates with many who range from immediate family to those who missed the opportunity to meet him.

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I’d like to see an essay on Gavin Newsom. Think he’s wanting to lead the way in confronting the constant diarrhea coming from the right. He had a great interview with Sean Hannity. Toe to toe.

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Thank you Dan Rather for the thoughtful and heartfelt eulogy.

I think Cormac would have

(reluctantly) approved.

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Since I live in Knoxville TN, where he'd lived, and I have read most of his wonderful books, I'm especially saddened by his death.

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Since I live in Knoxville TN, where he'd lived

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I look forward to reading Steady every day.

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The Road is one of my favorite books of all time. Cormac McCarthy's writing style was genius. (thus The Pulitzer Prize for it) Never before or after has an author captured me so intently. The writing on the pages of The Road was like a rose garden...beautiful, fragrant...enveloping... about an horrific scary cataclysmic event you can't even imagine. (Which I never knew exactly what happened, but that didn't matter.) So seductive it held you to the page and drew you onto the next like the sirens on the rocks. The night before he passed away, I spent 20 minutes trying to explain his writing to a friend; why they should read The Road, and why it's the most amazing written books I've ever read. Then, the following day, I'm listening to NPR and I hear he has passed away. I went right out and acquired one of his last books, (In Hardback!) The Passenger, one part of a two part set-2022, with Stella Maris the second. The review in The Atlantic said they were remarkable. I wish I was able to write better literary analysis of his work besides he was a magical masterful genius with words.

So sorry he has left this world.

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Yes. A beautiful reflection upon a man and his work. The work, the writing was its own and only reward. What a gift to the rest of us.

As a parent never give up. Never give up period.

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I love reading YOU, Dan Rather.

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I will now have to read his works! Thank you for sharing your wonderment, Dan, of this noted author.

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Thank you Mr Rather for your kind words for Mr McCarthy-I must seek his books.

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Thank you, Dan. It's not easy to do justice to the life and work of our greatest living author, but you pulled it off with grace.

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