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What is /lit/'s opinion on Cormac McCarthy? I have read The Road and am 3/4's of the way through Blood Meridian (I have the collected Border trilogy on my reading list).

I think he has a good mind for making emotional characters and his prose is decent. All of the Spanish gets annoying though. Can anyone rate Suttree?

>> No.1744596

He will become absoutely legendary when he dies. Wait for it.

>> No.1744605

I used to rage at his stupid pandering (Hey, kids! Do you like violence?) until I realized he's like, 90 and almost dead.

I can't knock a guy too hard who's 3 feet into being 6 feet under.

>> No.1744614

>>1744596

Why? Pynchon, Roth, DeLilo, Morrison etc are all around his age.

>> No.1744624

>>1744614

Because his books are popular, but well written, and the source of countless successful, but well made, movies.

>> No.1744630

>>1744624

Well, yeah, that's obvious... Hopefully the Blood Meridian adaption is done right, if they ever end up finishing it at all.

>> No.1744636

despite all the attention his books get, they really only became popular when No Country For Old Men came out and everybody wanted to read it.

A movie was also made for All the Pretty Horses, but i heard ot was a bomb in the box office.

This guy likes to live a simple and secluded life, I respect him for that. I also like the way he doesn't interrupt the text with quotation marks. I had never realized before reading A Cormac McCarthy book how much punctuation ruins the flow of a conversation between characters.

>> No.1744666

>>1744630
> blood meridian film adaptation
> done right
Nope. I feel like it's impossible. Not only is it insanely violent but no one will be able to perform The Judge. It's impossible. You can't do it. Don't even try. No.

It's kind of the same thing with productions of King Lear, it always exists better in the mind.

>> No.1744680

>>1744666
Olivier's Lear is great, though.

In the scene when his daughters gang up on him, you can see that Olivier is so fucking pissed he can't even think or talk straight.

Fucking great. I laugh and marvel at that scene every time.

>> No.1744688

>>1744680
Yeah, that's fair. I dunno, it still seems lacking for me but Oliver is great.

>> No.1744694

the last few lines of blood meridian are some of my favorite last few lines of anything ever

also the synopses of each chapter at the beginning of each chapter are a bitchin nod to earlier novels

>> No.1744698

>>1744694
hell yeah motherfucker

fuck sleep, imma dance

>> No.1744713

Blood Meridian is one of my favorite novels. The Road is okay. Child of God and Outer Dark are pretty awesome.

>> No.1744727
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1744727

>>1744624
Because we all know how much these factors played in the canonization of Michael Crichton and Robert Ludlum.

>> No.1744735

>>1744581
I've only read The Road, but I thought the prose was a whole, whole lot better than decent. I really love that book.

>> No.1745064

>>1744596
This is what I have done: I have bought all his books and I will read them only after he dies. I give them time to increase their value.

>> No.1745073

>>1744666

I imagined the dude that played the mummy in The Mummy as the Judge, probably just because he's bald. Bruce Willis could do a pretty cool job too.

>> No.1745076

>>1744636
I really disliked this about The Road, especially coupled with confusing formatting made it difficult for me to follow a conversation or figure out what's going on since the words seemed to melt into each other.