/lit/ - Literature

>>20124431
FILTERED

didn't ask

>>20124532
Lmao fucking filtered fr.

>>20124431
>and the sky was red like blood DOOD BLOOD LMAO NIGGERS
fucking kek I lost

>>20124608
this is literally the best part about the book lol, op is a pathetic pussy

>>20124431
McCarthy is the Emperor's new clothes in book form. He could wipe his ass on paper, and Cormacdrones would still be saying "FILTERED!!@@" when anyone points out it's shit.

>>20124431
You don’t have to like it so just read something you do like. He was more so aping Melville’s Moby-Dick then Faulkner in this one too. Might wanna try it out if you haven’t because you’ll probably like it more.

>McCarthy is the Emperor's new clothes in book form. He could wipe his ass on paper, and Cormacdrones would still be saying "FILTERED!!@@" when anyone points out it's shit.

>>20124431
Anyone who complains about long sentences or purple prose is not literate. It’s always stupid people who think other people are trying to sound smart.

>>20124431
>I'm halfway through this novel and I'm starting to hate the prose.

I was the opposite, I hated it at the start but about halfway I started to enjoy it and couldn’t put it down.

>>20124431
>he tries so damn hard to make every single sentence sound like some overly poetic and biblical philosophy. It's like he's constantly trying to rub it in your face that he's from the south and likes violence
That's Faulkner's (and Melville's) fault. Don't blame Cormac for following tradition.

>>20124816
It's true and you know it. Take McCarthy's cock out of your mouth.

>>20125154
cry moar

Biggest pleb filter on this board.

can someone post a good excerpt from blood meridian, possibly one without spoilers so I can get a honest idea of what it's like

>>20125551
It's a fairly simple and accessible novel, that's why it sold so much. It's not a pleb filter, it's just not nearly as good as people make it seem

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>>20125154
Go back to playing Elden Ring, incels.

>>20125558
“A year later he is in Saint Louis. He is taken on for New Orleans aboard a flatboat. Forty-two days on the river. At night the steamboats hoot and trudge past through the black waters all alight like cities adrift. They break up the float and sell the lumber and he walks in the streets and hears tongues he has not heard before. He lives in a room above a courtyard behind a tavern and he comes down at night like some fairybook beast to fight with the sailors. He is not big but he has big wrists, big hands. His shoulders are set close. The child's face is curiously untouched behind the scars, the eyes oddly innocent. They fight with fists, with feet, with bottles or knives. All races, all breeds. Men whose speech sounds like the grunting of apes. Men from lands so far and queer that standing over them where they lie bleeding in the mud he feels mankind itself vindicated.

the insults are starting to get a little too abstract, I can't follow anymore

>>20125569
The fact that you dislike it doesn't mean it's not as good as people say it is.

>>20125584
This isn't insufferable at all although I'm not particularly enamored with it. It's nothing like the convoluted phrasing that I guess belongs to later books?

>>20125585
Maladroit.

>>20125584
OP here, I actually liked the beginning a lot and this part here I am impressed by too. It's quite punchy and hypnotic. But later on he spends half of the pages describing how they're riding from A to B in very long and mundane sentences that test my patience. I don't need 3 lines of metaphors for literally every single thing they do and say, especially when nothing about the atmosphere is changing. Like I get it, things are bloody, sky is dark, "no sound save that of the rifle", niggers, etc. At that point it just becomes a slog to get through and challenges my interest in the plot (which I actually like).

>>20125766
Another plotfag filtered

>>20125854
Not a plotfag. The sound and the fury is my favorite book

>>20125551
That would be Ulysses, Moby Dick and the Bible.

>>20126151
Bible isn't literature

Filtered

>>20126172
it is

>>20126172
What the fuck is it then?

>>20125558
A legion of horribles, hundreds in number, half naked or clad in costumes attic or biblical or wardrobed out of a fevered dream with the skins of animals and silk finery and pieces of uniform still tracked with the blood of prior owners, coats of slain dragoons, frogged and braided cavalry jackets, one in a stovepipe hat and one with an umbrella and one in white stockings and a bloodstained wedding veil and some in headgear or cranefeathers or rawhide helmets that bore the horns of bull or buffalo and one in a pigeontailed coat worn backwards and otherwise naked and one in the armor of a Spanish conquistador, the breastplate and pauldrons deeply dented with old blows of mace or sabre done in another country by men whose very bones were dust and many with their braids spliced up with the hair of other beasts until they trailed upon the ground and their horses' ears and tails worked with bits of brightly colored cloth and one whose horse's whole head was painted crimson red and all the horsemen's faces gaudy and grotesque with daubings like a company of mounted clowns, death hilarious, all howling in a barbarous tongue and riding down upon them like a horde from a hell more horrible yet than the brimstone land of Christian reckoning, screeching and yammering and clothed in smoke like those vaporous beings in regions beyond right knowing where the eye wanders and the lip jerks and drools.

>>20126223
Scripture

>>20125569
>It's a fairly simple and accessible novel, that's why it sold so much. It's not a pleb filter, it's just not nearly as good as people make it seem

I agree.

>>20125558
They is four things that can destroy the earth, he said. Women, whiskey, money, and niggers.

>>20124836
The irony.

>>20126172
Point proven

>>20124431
When you finish the novel, you'll appreciate it more.

>>20124431
I think this sort of reaction happens when you have very particular expectations for a book. You see people gushing over the prose in this book all over the place, so you have certain expectations for it, and you become overly sensitized to it. I bet if you had just picked up this book without knowing anything about it, you would actually like the way it's written. Unfortunately, I don't know any tricks for resetting your mindset in this way.

>>20126706
lol, you just don't actually understand literature like you think you do

I'm currently re-reading it for the 6th time I think

based OP seeing through the shitty pseud taste

>>20126957
exactly. its only impressive if you go into it expecting next to nothing. the act of writing prosaic or in a literary way in the modern day is taken as a sure sign of genius without questioning if its good literature.

>>20127677
nah, you just have shit taste

>>20125766
those were my favourite parts

>>20125766
>spends half of the pages describing how they're riding from A to B
That's what makes this book an adventure. McCarthy even travelled to these locations to get an accurate description of the scenery for the novel.