The New York Times Again...

For the second time, The New York Times has written about an on-line book club I've been a participant at for ten years.

Here is the first time

"Eleven-Seven: Cormac McCarthy's fans--they gather in the forums of 'the official Web site of the Cormac McCarthy society'--are smarter, and definately more laid back, than those of just about any other living writer. They have names like Clem, and tend to refer to themselves as 'fellers.' Watching them hash out their feelings about McCarthy's new novel, 'The Road'--see No. 4 on the fiction list--is like listening to the members of Waylon Jennings's old band talking on a back porch somewhere, smoking cigarettes and plunking squirrels with varmint rifles. One burning issue in the forums right now is McCarthy's strategic deployment of the number 117. In his new novel, 1:17 a.m. is when clocks stop and the world ends. In his last one, 'No Country for Old Men,' there was a gristly motel murder in Room 117. And so on. Is McCarthy referencing the Book of Revelations? Genesis? Who knows? 'That's the Bible: you can make it support an argument any which way.'"

And here from yesterdays NYT's "Paper Cuts:

You’d think these would be heady times for the people who gather at Cormac McCarthy.com, the official Web site of the Cormac McCarthy Society. Their man appeared on television last week, emerging like a biblical apparition. The Coen Brothers film of “No Country for Old Men” will be in theaters soon. McCarthy’s “The Road” won a Pulitzer Prize two months back.

But no. Like a family of lottery winners, the extended McCarthy clan has commenced to bickering. The site’s terrific forum - I have praised it in print before - has become a battleground of wounded feelings and bruised egos. One participant recently referred to the forum as “mostly poison.” Part of the problem seems to be political.

This is so funny to me...actually, I could handle the "wounded feelings and bruised egos" but actually...my only grief at the Forum is that I've had a stalker there for over a year!. But that shall have to be an account for a future post.