/lit/ - Literature

War is god.

>>12085306
You listen here now.

So, would this be the old school death metal of literature?

SPOILERS So I am on chapter 7 right now and I am trying to figure out what the fuck is going on in this book. Yeah so don't read on if you don't want it spoiled. I am at the part where they're in that yard with the bounty hunter and judge holden, and he just starts shooting animals in the yard to test out the guns. I dunno what the whole thing at the beginning of the chapter between the black guy and white guy who share the same name was all about, idk what it had to do with the part that followed it in the court yard; maybe it gets to that later. So, what I vaguely gathered from this really confusing scene is that what's his name the bounty hunter kills some animals and then shoots the bell, and then the army comes up and is like what the fuck are you firing that weapon for (I can't speak spanish so I can only assume that's what they were talking about). So judge holden, being the smooth talking psycho that he is, basically just goes on about a bunch of smooth talking bullshit, and then hands the sergeant some money to bribe him, and they ride away with the guns after formerly disputing whether or not it was a good price.

Did I sum up that part? Because I literally had to download the audiobook just for this part and listen to it so I would get it, because holy crap that was frustratingly difficult to follow along. Please don't give anything away that happens after that.

If you liked The Road you need to read this. It's infinitely better.

So so so so many parts of this. There's a few lines in chapter 12 that made me put it down and go for a walk.

it just looks so nice on the shelf.

>>6912844
Vintage publication is much better imo

This is my first foray into literature that isn't absolute garbage. Only 10 pages in. I'm so excited.

I'm reading this now. So far it just seems like a really edgy western with some Christian allegory mixed in. It's fun enough for what it is but I don't understand why people keep calling it "important" or "great".

Someone gave me their leftover B&N giftcard so I got this.

God fucking DAMMIT

>This isn't your everyday darkness...this is...advanced darkness!

Holy shit just finished this book. For all the shit McCarthy gets on this board, the writing in the book is overwhelming. I have a couple thoughts, about the book and I'd love to know what /lit/ has to say about them:
It's pretty much Moby-Dick in form (traversing extreme terrain, a small band of people, each with their own allegorical stake, the trichotomy of human interaction, boredom, and violence; the power of nature). Does that make the judge the whale? Is he the devil? I know there isn't one actual answer but he's such an interesting and complex character I'm sure he has a different analogue and meaning to each reader.
Is this a condemnation of America, or a resignation that violence and war are a necessity in life, and America took advantage of that fact and was simply better (ie. the last man dancing)?

Furthermore, does this novel have anything redeeming to say about humanity? If so, what? These aren't meant to be sophomoric prompts, but the questions I'm genuinely thinking about after reading.

ITT: Books that you disliked at first but came to love

I had about 100 pages of BM left before I started doing research on Glanton's Gang and scalphunters. It completely changed my opinion of the book.

Just finished this. Thought it was fan-fucking-tastic.

Blood Meridian/McCarthy general discussion.

ITT: Pleb tier books

I'm relatively new to /lit/, and I just started reading this.
Have you read it?
What are your thoughts on McCarthy?

>McCarthy is the most accessible famous author in American literature
>really easy to read

And here I am pulling out a fucking huge dictionary every other page half of the time finding the word isn't even fucking in there, trying to wrap my head around these needlessly long fucking sentences, and dialog that I'd need years of being a ranch hand in the fucking 1850's to understand.

Why did I listen to you in the first place :(

thoughts?

Good god this was beautiful and terrifying. The last five or so chapters are calamitous and the whole book reads like a biblical event.

so does the judge represent God, or fate embodied?

>Not one mention.
Honestly, I get it. He's edgy, but this book, this fucking book, will live forever.

Cormac McCarthy- Blood Meridian