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>>21865221

>>21821865
The GAN

Check out Suttree by McCarthy

What parts of this novel were autobiographical? I'm reading through it and what little there is on McCarthy through google searches doesn't give me a lot of shit that matches up. Did he really have a son who died? Did he come from a well off family? Did he live on his own like a hobo?

Or was he supposed to be Harrogate?

Suttree> Blood Meridian> Cities of the Plain > > The Orchard Keeper > Child of God > Outer Dark > Rest of Border Tril. > The Road > No Country For Old Men

>>7016187
It's essential /lit/core and has pretty much no plot.

In general I tend to find books that are too plot heavy to be uninteresting. That's not always true though. Big fan of Dumas, for instance.

McCarthy

>>6903615
Suttree. Read it while laying in a hammock and drinking beer on Sunday afternoons in August. So good.

>>6552167
Suttree is great for those afternoons where you just chill in a hammock and drink beer.

Thoughts on this?

I'm going chronologically through his novels (although I've read Blood Meridian before).

I feel like I need to read it again because it was pretty challenging at times. Not impenetrable, but I sometimes didn't fully grasp what was going on. His prose varies from incredibly vivid and detailed to jarringly sparse. There were times I felt like it was one of the best things I've ever read and others where I felt like it was a bit of a struggle to get through.

Once I've reread it I feel like it could be my favourite McCarthy novel (unless of course the Border trilogy manages to surpass this and BM) but I feel like I missed out on too much the first time around to say it confidently.

I won't say it changed my worldview, but Suttree by Cormac McCarthy definitely helped to solidify it. The last sentence so succinctly phrases everything the book has been laboring towards. I put it down that night and couldn't get to sleep because my mind was racing with all the ways I'd failed to live up to the standard of Mr. Suttree's way of life.

Granted, neither Suttree nor McCarthy's ( the book is loosely autobiographical, I hear ) are all that enviable, but the sentiment remained.

Finally a Cormac McCarthy novel that isn't about Mexico.

Also, Harrogate is adorable.

"He made his way by alleys and small dark streets to the lights at Henley Street where he'd earlier spied a church lawn. Here he found himself a nest among the curried clumps of phlox and boxwood and curled up like a dog. He had a few things he'd collected in his pocket and he took these out and set them alongside in the edging of mulch and lay back again in the grass. He could feel under his back the rumble of trucks passing in the street. He shifted his hips. He folded his hands behind his head. He must prop his upturned toes together to ease the weight of the enormous shoes from his bird's ankles. After a while he slipped them off and lay back again. Yellow lamplight clung in his lashes. He watched insects rise and wheel there. A hunting bat cut through the cone of light and sucked them scattering. They re-formed slowly. Soon two bats. Veering and rending the placid life that homed to ash in the columnar light. Harrogate awonder at how they did not collide."

What's an easy way to upload the file so others can download it? I'd like to have people link a download with their excerpts.

I didn't buy it, though.

Buying books is an antiquated notion--something my grandparents did.

Thinking about getting this. Is it good?

No love for Suttree?

Shit, I always thought this was one of his best novels.

>>463322

< When he buries his son and when the girl gets killed by the rockslide.