Yes, Wesley. And it naturally does make me wonder if Cormack McCarthy's written material and his general approach/philosophy/or whatever are not too much to my taste. However, I would still need to read his book to know for sure, wouldn't I? I'm curious enough about it that I will probably get around to reading his book "The Road" fairly soon. I figure the local library probably has it.

Getting back for a moment to "Pillars of the Earth"...that was by Ken Follet, and it's a wonderful book. It was recommended to me by a friend. Then I read his follow-up to it which is called "World Without End" and it was also superb. Not quite as good as "Pillars of the Earth", but still a great piece of writing.

Here's another "dark" movie that I thought was very good: "Monster" with Charlize Theron playing the part of Eileen Wournos, the serial killer. It was a tough movie to sit through, but a tremendously good one, in my opinion. It made you care for the characters, and if a movie can do that then it has succeeded.