/lit/ - Literature

im on page 130 when does the violence start. did you faggots and /tv/ lie to me?

what are your thoughts on Blood Meridian, is it as great as everyone says?
William Faulkner was allegedly a prime inspiration for McCarthy, in which parts do you see this reflected?

>>17925128
Did anyone else have a sense of positive feeling after the book ended? It's weird because even though the book is horrible in a tragic sense and everyone dies I felt a sense of peace after I read it

>>17854473

I mean...

what exactly was the point of all this blood and violence?

Answer: Because it's just a homo-ephebic phantasy of the author
I mean, it's so trite and edgy. Reads like a 7th grader who thought the 19th century was cool wrote it.

>>15440507

I walked with a cosh, hoping I’d be approached by somebody – I’m ashamed to say that – and I did it for maybe a week, hoping some black bastard would come out of a pub and have a go at me about something, you know? So that I could kill him.