/lit/ - Literature

Faust I & II
Don Quixote
Tempest
Hamlet
Moby dick
Ulysses
Borges' short fiction
Life a user's manual
And pic related

This is just vile crap and says nothing of actual substance. This is a teenager's idea of profundity. Dr, Suess books contribute more to society, Fuck you.

>>18647234

Does this espouse Freemasonry?

I got filtered by the prose. I can't stand it.

So what I’m not allowed to quote John Wayne anymore??

i got memed into reading this because i kept seeing it mentioned on pol and v threads. seems to be mostly descriptions of terrains and mountains at various times of the day, followed by yet another shootout and scalping excercise

then the judge looked up and smiled

does it get any better, or should i move on to something more interesting?

is it actually that good?
is it the best mccarthy?

>>18243641
Very based
>>18245171
The original cover is much better

what are some of the most difficult books youve read. Also is gravitys rainbow more diffcult than moby dick or ulysseys?

Did the judge kill the man in the outhouse? Or did they gay sex or something???
Is Holden suppose to be some kind of allegory for the devil?
Why did the judge try to kill the kid in the desert? My understanding is that judge tried to shoot the kid first. Did he just want his pistol?
And the epilogue. Does the kid end up retiring as some sort of prospector?

Does this fucker get better at some point? So far, the book can be summed up as:

>the Kid goes somewhere
>author lists the environment
>esoteric rambling
>somebody dies in a gory, pointless death
>repeat

The judge has been the only interesting character so far, and even then, he's almost forgettable.

Anyone read this and got any thoughts? Thinking of picking it up soon after I finish what I'm currently on

>>17244158
This is unironically the best, one of the few good ones. Cormac McCarthy is my favorite author, but his covers never have any soul.

i never read this dam book but cum town nick say its good

I've heard that the kid represents money and the judge represents consumerism?

Can anyone expand on this theory?

When does this get good bros?

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Where do I go from here? I liked the brutality, the gang's depravity that surpassed the savages that they were hunting, the biblical allusions, the epic scale, the eerily supernatural judge. Is there any historical fiction that comes close?

post them

McCarthy is the only writer I really like. It's like everything just clicks with me in a way that I've not yet experienced with another writer, whom it can be difficult for me to get into. For example, for all the comparisons I hear to Faulkner, I've never managed to complete a single book of his Faulkner's to confusion and boredom. Anyone else have this experience? Not with McCarthy specifically, but with any particular writer.

Was life really like this in the American wild west?

Before I read Blood Meridian, I read books like they were movies. I would read them for the stories and if a novel didn't have a good story it was worthless to me. When I started reading Blood Meridian, I tried to read it the way that I would read a Stephen King novel. It didn't work. It was confusing and it was hard but it was new territory. I only started to "get it" when I started concentrating on the writing in a way that I never had to, and it became fun. I can no longer imagine reading books that don’t stimulate me in a similar way. Have any of you experienced this “Shift”?

As of now, I'm about halfway through the book. Something's been on my mind though.

Judge Holden has told the gang his philosophy on natural selection. He says the best way for humanity to prosper as a species is to throw the children of each generation to the wolves and see who comes out alive.

Now, this obviously perpetuates human predation. However, there's a part where he says, "For whoever makes a shelter of reeds and hides has joined his spirit to the common destiny of creatures and he will subside back into the primal mud with scarcely a cry."

The men in this gang have chosen a life of violence and are perpetuating a trend of their lifetime. History will not remember them, seeing instead men of the same stalk. In essence, they're disappearing into the primal mud.

The irony, it seems, is how the judge is regarded as busy in keeping the gang on the path to violence and war. Yet in preaching this aforementioned philosophy, there is an air of self determination. The new generation ought to disregard the teachings of their forefathers and find their own way, "discern the door that doesn't harbor the wild lions" as he says. Yet in this very violent philosophy is its own destruction, because someone could disregard everyone around them and violence entirely. In doing so they're beginning to reshape the universe around them and, ideally, won't be lumped in with the general behavior of their generation.

So I wonder, could Judge Holden actually be there to save humanity just as much as perpetuate its destruction?