/lit/ - Literature

>dude science and incest xD lmao

>>20219290

>>20219284
I read blood meridian last year and I think he took the last vestige of innocence from me

>>20219337
Christ, Blood Meridian wasn’t even that bad. Watch Bone Tomahawk.
Really tired of giant floppy vaginas crying about how they put the book down because it was too violent.

>>20219313
Kek

>>20219468
They're just repeating Bloom. The book is fine, but it's the worst thing he's written. If you're not rolling your eyes and laughing, you've been rused.

>>20219337
You're on 4chan. What in the fuck are you talking about? I can't think of a single thing in the book that would take any vestige of innocence" from someone.

>>20219468
It's not just the violence but the general depravity all around, but yeah the massacres just do not stop.
>>20219902
Sure I've seen some fucked up shit on here but something like BM is different in that it has more depth than just surface level shock, it wears the reader down.

>>20219902
>it's the worst thing he's written
This is not even remotely true.

>>20219963
What was worse? I've enjoyed everything else by him a lot more.

>>20219953
There's nothing surface level about cartel videos. And there's no depth to Judge Holden. You picked up on that right? Or you as brain dead as the Glanton gang?

>>20220262
The Orchard Keeper and The Road, at the very least, are objectively worse, don't be an idiot

>>20220262
I'm not sure what you mean 'worse.' BM is one of his better novels. The only thing I can see some people call better is Suttree.

>tfw you've read every McCarthy novel but not Blood Meridian and No Country for Old Men
Am I missing out on something?

>>20220284
big time

>>20220276
>>20220277
I think you've been duped. I definitely overrated BM for years. I reread it recently and was shocked. The Road and The Orchard Keeper are absolutely higher quality. Blood Meridian is goofy as hell. It goes from laugh out loud bad to simple cringe and eye rolling.

The book My Confession: The Recollections of a Rogue is back in print. You can pull it off libgen if you're interested. It has McCarthy's sources for Holden, which were basically inaccessible until 2019. There wasn't much invention around the character, Chamberlain describes the same guy, a number of the same scenes.

>>20220289
How so?

>>20219284
Not literature.

>>20220369
Blood Meridian is a masterpiece.

>>20220401
But why? I doubt anything could be better for my stone-cold heart than All the Pretty Horses.

>oh cool a limited edition hardcover boxset!
>60 god damn motherfucking dollaroos
Yeah, I think I'll be pirating this one, boys. It's pissed me off too much, and now I can't even bring myself to buy the normal edition (WoOw only 40 dollars?! such good deal!). Fuck buying books. If you have ever bought a physical book in your entire life you are a pussy. The only exception is if nobody has scanned it yet.

>>20220442
Letting poor people read was a fucking mistake in the first place.

>>20220442
As a rule of thumb I pirate everything I read for the first time.

>>20219902
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>>20220276
What to read after blood meridian? If I’m being honest I almost dropped it but it caught my attention halfway through.

>>20220442
And yet people will pay $90 for the latest yearly piece of shit AAA shooter or fifa or madden or assassin's creed or they'll pay $20 a head to go see the latest Disney/Marvel/Sony drivel but no, people who buy physical books are pussies.
Try not looking at a screen for an hour for once in your life and go touch some grass.

>>20219284
And they rode on to the rust colored tabernacle and the haciendas sat toadlike on the barren wastes and the tortillas flaked like dried mud as the Kid shallowed with a dry throat and the mexicans scalps tried tortilla like on the belt loops of the baroque gang dressed in a mismatch of grotesgy finery tortilla tabernacle scaple nightwire

>>20220858
like some great blood meridian or the evening redness in the west.

>>20220858
And then he rode and then he took the tortilla and then he took the coffee and then he drank the coffee and then he crumbled up the tortilla and then he put the tortilla into the coffee cup and then he used the tortilla as a moist maker and then the tortilla was slathered in the leftover coffee and then he ate the tortilla and then he rode on and then he scalped an indian

>>20220895
And then he rode and then he took the tortilla and then he took the coffee and then he drank the coffee and then he crumbled up the tortilla and then he put the tortilla into the coffee cup and then he used the tortilla as a moist maker and then the tortilla was slathered in the leftover coffee and then he ate the tortilla and then he rode on and then he scalped an indian

>>20219284
Thought about getting those but I want to have them right away.

>>20220895
They rode until sunset then stopped in a chaparral to make a fire in an arroyo next to a cordillera atop a caldera. They sat in silence for some time, gazing out at the tortillas and haciendas and coal miners, niggerblack from coaldust. The expriest Tobin opened his exbible and sang some exhymns. Glanton spat. They ate a dinner of cornmeal and bacon fat fried in a cast iron pan the Judge forged in a furnace made from one of the mexican’s skulls, bleached white now made niggerblack from the coals. Glanton spat and punched a little girl in the ribs so hard you could hear the bones snap like dried tortillas falling from an arroyo.

>>20220895
https://voca.ro/18XNZdfH9ku8

>>20220312
You didn't explain why it's bad.

>>20219284
Horrible cover - I will not be reading this novel

Is all the pretty horses his best novel?

>>20220918
It's obvious you got filtered but this made me kek

>>20220276
The absolute fuck? Child of God is the objectively the worst fucking thing he’s ever done

>>20221052
it's suttree

>>20220895
This is the funniest post on /lit/ right now

>>20221138
Damn Sut

>>20221052
it's The Crossing

>preordering
>pirating
reddit really has taken over. books are not video games.

>>20220895
kek

>>20221052
mfw reading the abuella's story about gustavo

>>20219337
Have you ever read any history book ever? Blood Meridian was tame compared to anything based in real life.

>>20220476
Based and aristocracy pilled

>>20220262
>What was worse? I've enjoyed everything else by him a lot more.
finally, I have found a friend

>>20221052
Yes.

>>20220948
You want me to post quotes for your evaluation?

>>20220418
Don’t read it then you fucking dick head

>>20221128
Child of God is excellent. You're forgetting or missing how fucking goofy Blood Meridian is I swear lol

>>20219313
That's a big hat

where can I pre order it

>>20219902
>epic hacker 4chan

>>20221052
Best villain.

>>20222318
Why? She's the best villain McCarthy has invented. Fuck her.

>>20222368
Or anything in the news. You'd have to be seriously asleep at the wheel to feel the way that kid does. Perhaps he's just posing. Which is whatever.

>>20220895
Lol only Border Trilogy bros will truly understand how funny this is

>>20219284
Is there another tree fucking scene.

>>20220944
lmao tor-till-ah

>>20220442
The dollar becomes less valuable by the second, and printed books become more valuable just by their existence. It’s the only medium where age perfects and creates it, like wine. You’re truly a moron if you can’t see or appreciate that, or if you value your dollarino more than the words of some of the greatest men that have graced this planet

>>20220895
lmao
the Border Trilogy is his best work but you goofballs never get past BM

>>20222706
I only like corncob tortilla when he is writing about hillbillies.

>>20220442
>30 dollarydoos per hardback
I don't know where you live anon, that's pretty average for a hardback let alone a newly released book.

>>20222584
>goofy
>I swear
go back to twitter and take your niggerspeak with you

>>20219284
>He’s pre-ordered the box set which isn’t out until December, while the individual books are out in October and November.

Enjoy waiting an extra month.

>>20222706
The Border Trilogy was like having acid poured down the center of my spine: AtPH - ooh fun adventure and coming of age, though a bit more brutal than usual -> The Crossing - Fun wolfie adv---wtf? WTF cmon WTF WTF -> CotP - oh cool it's like Gaddis but fun rancher li---wtf oh come on wtf---WTF ok at least it's ove---WTF *ends*

>>20220312
>goofy
>cringe
What an insightful and convincing critique.

>>20220312
lmao shut the fuck up

Are his books any good?

>>20224032
No

>>20219284
I honestly thought he died. 16 years since The Road. I just finished it for the second time after buying a nicer edition.

>Asked by Oprah Winfrey in 2007 if he cared that he had millions of readers, he said: “In all honesty I have to say I really don’t. You would like for the people who appreciate the book to read it, but, as far as many, many people reading it, so what?”
Basado.

>>20219284
bump

>>20220442
Paperback books are usually at least $10 nowadays, and in many cases $15-$20.
Why not spend a bit extra for a copy of a book, that is printed on higher quality, likely acid free paper, possibly with a sewn binding?
A lot of the Everyman’s Library and Library of America editions have more than one book.
Purchasing the current paperback copies of something like Ellroy’s L.A. Quartet, is more expensive than purchasing the single hardback EL edition that contains all 4 books.
The EL is also printed on nice acid free paper, with a pleasant sewn binding, and cloth covers, and a ribbon book-marker, which is admittedly, a bit short for the 1400- pages of the book.

Also, glued paperbacks in my experience will fall apart after a decade or two in many cases.

I could only get this cover. Oh well.

>>20222593
For you!

>>20225833
Probably just a filler until it's officially released.

>>20225942
Nah, it's a different publisher i'm pretty sure. This is the Knopf published version. The one in the OP is Picador.

>>20225973
Both filler covers I hope. They're both so ugly.

>>20225833
I'm torn. Knopf is McCarthy's main publisher but that cover looks like straight garbage.
Even the plain placeholder of the Picador is more appealing.
>>20225993
>Both filler covers I hope.
If you get out your glasses the Picador one literally says COVER TO BE REVEALED.

>>20219337
Read Child of God, it'll make you feel better about yourself

>>20219284
Pre filtered *

>>20222368
Blood Meridian is somewhat based on real events, that's part of what makes it powerful.
>>20220262
Cartel videos aren't surface level act, they're surface level in context. It's extremely horrific and shocking but BM just makes you think deeper about things. Plus you don't really know what I was going through when I read it which definitely has some to do with the effect the book had on me.

1. The Border Trilogy
1a. The Crossing
1b. Cities of the Plain
1c. All the Pretty Horses
2. Blood Meridian
3. Suttree
4. No Country for Old Men
5. Outer Dark
6. The Road
7. Child of God
8. The Orchard Keeper

don't even bother responding with your incorrect opinion

>>20227029
He's right about everything...

>>20219284
Bump

>preordering books
Reddit truly has taken over.

>>20227017
I don't know bro. Cartel dudes cutting out people's hearts while they are still alive and eating them is some deep cthonic Aztec shit.

>Born: Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr.
>July 20, 1933 (age 88)

Goddamn I thought he was like 80 for some reason.

>>20220476
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>>20225660
sounds like some cope.

>The more she drank, the more she shat, but the more she shat, the thirstier she grew, and her thirst sent her crawling to the stream to suck up more water.

Finally he wrote a story about that damn agua. For me? It's San Pellegrino.

McCarthy? That's not literature.

>>20228852
cope

>>20219284
whats it about

>>20229022
Agua.

>preordering before you even see the cover

its like you want your bookshelf to be ugly

>>20229026
I ain't got no water

>>20220442
get on my level n00b

>>20229297
I really like the binding on this. But the illustrations are absolute ass. I'm hoping FS will release something decent this year.

>>20229467
Agreed, but it's also letterpress on as good as paper as you can get without getting mouldmade, so unless FS is really going to go all out, then I don't see it being surpassed as far as production quality goes.

>>20229483
>so unless FS is really going to go all out
There's a cunt hair's chance. They hosted that public vote on titles to release for their anniversary. We don't know which book won, and they haven't said more than that it would become a FS title - but they could be doing something special for the occasion. Even their LEs are seldom letterpress though.

Suntup couldn't snag signatures from Cormy either (not that anyone will) which is a dent in the status of the volume.

And just in case you haven't seen it already there's a LOTR related volume due for release the 20th. It's guaranteed to be twice as expensive the second it sells out.

>>20219284
>preconsoooooom