/lit/ - Literature

>>22910984
I DO NOT CONSENT

>>20257139
Think about it like this. 2+2 is 4. Maths is an abstract concept but if humans ceased to exist or ceased to ever have existed this doesn't mean 2+2 is no longer 4. Maths exists without us as they are logical conclusions of the objective reality. In the same sense the abstract concept of war exists without us. Even without sentient beings to wage it the idea of conscious (or even unconscious) conflict doesn't require the human element to be conceptualised. Another example would be the matter of empathy, which things such as nobility and honor entail. Empathy, while requiring a thinking mind to be brought to motion in reality is an abstract concept that exists without thinking minds as it is a natural conclusion of intellect. If, contradically, a thinking mind was appraising the mindless reality the concept of empathy would still exist as empathy is a logical conclusion that would be a made by a thinking mind of sufficient intellect; perception of others and awareness that others percieve you does not cease to exist entirely without with perception—it simply ceases to be practiced. With that, war always exists as a logical conclusion of conscious conflict even without conscious minds—it simply needs a "practitioner"

I really hope Cormac’s new novels will be good.

>Moments from novels that left the biggest impact on you?

>>17632509
It is the fact that the only testimony of the Judge's existence is in several pages of an obscure, forgotten memoir that makes him more terrifying for me. Given how similar the description of the real Judge Holden, and the fictional one is, it makes it that much more difficult to draw the line between fiction and reality.

What can be said though is that “war endures”. As long as there are masses of people desperate for glory, then Reinhard will be there to seduce them. And as long as there are blood-soaked battlefields, the towing silhouette of the judge will be there to lead men to their doom.

(4/4)

>>16561222
The trope of vastly differing intellects clashing is very common in literary novels: 1984, Kafka, almost all of Dostoevsky's works, ect.

>>15956274
>>15956644
If he's a new reader I'd say they go for something more easily digested: I love Blood Meridian but beginners will get more out of starting with shorter more conventional pieces. I'd say Blood Meridian should be something pick up after a month or two of reading.

>>15923051
You're forgetting what /tv/'s favorite book is, there are threads about it every couple of days. That makes me think that you don't actually go on that board, /tv/ also mostly hates capeshit as well.

>>15599418
Any western would do, really

>>15044653
Hey, first time using this board. Just wanted to check in and say I'm LOVING BM. I tried listening to it on a long drive once about 10 years ago, but I guess it didn't take and I listened to No Country for Old Men instead - and maybe 1/3 of Dune.

Anyway, I'm giving it a show now since I usually only read nonfiction and man is it great.

>>15046430
Whoa, I'm no Canadian.

>>15047148
>I feel like I would've loved this book if I read it at 16/17, but I waited till I was 27.
I'm 30, and I can tell you from trial and error I enjoy it more now than I did when I was 19/20.

>the Judge shrieking like a demon as he mixes volcanic ash with the piss of his compatriots to make crude gun powder
as a band of savages approaches
>in the basin of Hell
>my fucking reaction when the entire chapter is an homage to John Milton
Bros, is it the greatest novel ever written? Any Western before or after is essentially rendered pointless.

>>14849472
Just wait for the movie

Regardless of what the judge did to the kid in the outhouse, why did he do it? From what I understand, the Kid refusing to shoot the judge in the back was a moral victory on his part, but years later he encounters the judge again, who then does what he does because he despised the kid and felt he stood in contrast to what he believed.

Is this meant to argue that the judge is correct in his philosophy, even though the epilogue suggests otherwise? And is the Kid's murder of the child on his way to town at the end meant to be his damnation rather than his earlier mercy? Would he have ever encountered the judge again if he had committed to a non-violent life after his escape?

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>>14365156

>”Hey uhh, Tobin...”
>”Yeah?”
>”I’m starting to doubt that man’s ever been to a law school.”

Ho-lee hell fellas, recently I'd finished this book and I gotta say, one of the greatest I've ever read. Let's talk about it.