/lit/ - Literature

\>"female authors are just as good as male authors"

ok zoomer

>>14458404
>me waiting for The Passenger

>>14458404
I just read the entirety of Child of God this evening. I think you just aren't used to reading books above a YA reading level. McCarthy is great.

>>14458488
>if you aren't absolutely thrilled and mentally stimulated by long-winded, rambling passages about mountains and hills, then you read at a YA level.

I hate this website

>>14458527
That's correct though

>>14458527
Read Child of God brainlet. It's perfect for an edgy redditor like you, though you won't get it. The chapters are 3-5 pages long so it's perfect for a millisecond attention spam zoomer like yourself. Then if you're feeling big brain read Suttree.

>>14458488
>>14458564

Real talk. Why are McCarthy fans such pretentious sods?

>>14458574
Real talk. Why do pretentious sods get pleb-filtered by Blood Meridian?

i read the road and it was okay (for a fiction book)

>>14458574
Lack of perspective.
>He ate the last of the eggs and wiped the plate with the tortilla and ate the tortilla and drank the last of the coffee and wiped his mouth and looked up and thanked her.

He fucking sucks dick but they eat up his shit prose.

>>14458404
>Corncob

>>14458488
McCarthy is trash.
>>14458564
McCarthy is reddit tier

>>14458404
>cormac McCarthy is reddit

this nigga is NEVER going to finish the passenger is he?
we're going to get some horrible posthumous hackjob of notes and false starts because i bet he's not even fucking writing it

>>14459164
>seethes so hard they have to make a brand new thread about it
>>14459054

>McCarthy makes sparse use of punctuation, even replacing most commas with "and" (a polysyndeton).[30] He told Oprah Winfrey in an interview that he prefers "simple declarative sentences" and that he uses capital letters, periods, an occasional comma, a colon for setting off a list, but never semicolons.[31] He does not use quotation marks for dialogue and believes there is no reason to "blot the page up with weird little marks"

Was it autism?

>>14459242
>the 80+ year old alchy who's basically retired isn't going to finish his book
seriously what the fuck

>>14458404
i don't even hate the writing style, his themes are just middlebrow and reddit; such a waste desu

>>14458416
Actually they're better desu.

>>14461726
What do you consider highbrow themes?

>>14461864
youre moms pussy

>>14461726
Imagine thinking Outer Dark and Child of God are "reddit."

>>14460561
turboretardtism
His books have mostly nice plots, but Jesus... his prose is fucking gay shit turd

>>14463103
His prose is cool faggot. Better than any post 1950s American writer's.

>>14458404
Could we just come to the conclusion that The Road and Blood Meridian are at the very least readable, but the rest of his stuff this board is never going to read?

>>14463204
I thought Blood Meridian was great and The Road was absolute dog shit.

>>14463112
Gaddis and Gass have way better prose.

>>14464242
>Gass
Oh you mean the guy who thinks the Nuclear Family turns people into Nazis and who thinks alliterating heavily in every fucking sentence means he's a good writer?

>>14464390
you're thinking of Nabokov

>>14464390
No, i am thinking of America's foremost prose stylist.

>>14458404
>a novel

>>14463112
Alexander Theroux mogs him effortlessly, if only because he is actually able to write a hypotactic sentence.