/lit/ - Literature

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1933 - 2014

Just by looking at him you can tell he's a real man. Modern male authors probably shave their arms

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What do you think of Cormac, /lit/?

So I really enjoyed "No Country for Old Men", I thought "The Road" was okay, albeit depressing. I'm starting on "All the Pretty Horses" and its really slow so far. Any recommendations of what I should read next/instead?

Also, the dude loves run-on sentences.

What's /lit/'s consensus on Cormac McCarthy?

So far I've read:
>Sunset Limited
>Child of God
>Blood Meridian (still have a couple pages left to go)

GOD TIER:
Blood Meridian

HIGH TIER:
Border Trilogy
Suttree
Child of God

OKAY TIER:
No Country for Old Men
The Road
Outer Dark

SHIT TIER:
The Orchard Keeper

In terms of style and command of the English language, Cormac McCarthy is supreme. I've never read a book that can touch him.

“The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any other part. Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man's mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others.”

Let's have a Cormac McCarthy thread, /lit/. What are your favorite works by McCarthy? I'll list the ones I've read and how they fall in terms of favor.

1. The Road
2. Sunset Limited
3. All the Pretty Horses
4. Son of God

Even Son of God is an excellent book, though. Has this man ever written anything short of excellent?

Anyone else a huge fan? What is your favorite of all his novels? What do you love about his writing? Also are there any woman who love his work, never met one who was into Mccarthy.

ITT: your favourite writer and why

cormac mccarthy - the vivid descriptions of place, the poetic writing style, the profound moments in his writing "a man's at odds to know his own mind aught his own mind's all he's got to know it with"

If Cormac McCarthy was an F-150, he'd be Cormac McTruckthy

I'm 6 chapters in Blood Meridian and I can safely say that McCarthy is a prose God. Often times his paragraphs read like poetic prose, with the most choice words used to describe or explain something.

Damn McCarthy, you my dawg, I love you.

Which current books/authors will be remembered as classics in 100 years time?

Harry Potter will most definitely be remembered as one of the most important Children's Books in the same vein as Alice's Adventure In Wonderland or The Little Prince.

I think Cormac McCarthy (Especially The Road and Blood Meridian) will be remembered for a while, hell I even saw Blood Meridian in the modern classics section of a book store.

Ian McEwan and David Mitchell are also possible contenders.

>>2872690

>McCarthy
>bad

Pick one. Forever.

>>2778613

That's the joke.

Cormac McCarthy. Obvious choice if you're into Faulkner

>>2640310

I see rugged masculinity.

When writers say they don't give a shit about how much they sell, do you think that's genuine? Great writers, I mean, not those hacks that just spew out pulpy crime/romance/thriller shit to old people.

I suppose if I was getting good critical reception and enough sales to live comfortably in an apartment somewhere I wouldn't care much. If my work wasn't being noticed I'd feel shitty because I wouldn't know whether I was producing good stuff or not (I don't write - is it hard to be properly critical of your own work?)

In that interview with Oprah, Cormac says he doesn't consider himself to be passionate about writing which was refreshing to hear. It annoys me when authors gush about their love for books and how they lived in the library when other kids were pissing about outside. I'm sure many people were like that but for the most part they're trying to up themselves. Same with academics that love telling about how much of a nerd they were.

"There is no such thing as life without bloodshed. The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is really a dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous."
— Cormac McCarthy

Is listening to an audiobook considered to be a "lesser" way to take in a book than straight up reading it?

Does a living man who is labelled the greatest writer of our generation, lose his credibility?

>>1890526
>His style is terrible

Which of his styles? The one he uses in the Orchard Keeper, Outer Dark, Suttree and Child of God? Or the style he uses in Blood Meridian? Or the style he uses in The Border Trilogy? Or the style he uses In No Country and the Road? All are different styles.

>who glorifies violence

Are you joking? What work does he glorify violence? You are talking out your ass now. Having violence in a book =/= glorifying violence.

>it's so funny because he's a pencil neck, probably couldn't lift a hand gun much less shoot the thing.

None of the pictures I have seen of him gave me that impression? And what would it even matter? He looks a rugged masculine to me. He's not small either, about 6ft.

He shook his head. You're asking that I make myself vulnerable and that I can never do. I have only one way to live. It doesn't allow for special cases. A coin toss perhaps. In this case to small purpose. Most people don't believe that there can be such a person. You see what a problem that must be for them. How to prevail over that which you refuse to acknowledge the existence of. Do you understand? When I came into your life your life was over. It had a beginning, a middle, and an end. This is the end. You can say that things could have turned out differently. That there could have been some other way. But what does that mean? They are not some other way. They are this way. You're asking that I second say the world. Do you see?

Yes, she said sobbing. I do. I truly do.

Good, he said. That's good. Then he shot her.