/lit/ - Literature

>>21222318
dead funny

Like Chinese construction videos

>>21222318
Kinda want one but I don’t really want to spend $70

>>21222318
killing frenzy

>>21222318
>Funkopop Society edition
No thanks.

raiders in ridiculous garb riding down oblivious americans

>>21222318
use the context you stupid nigger
>like a company of mounted clowns

Modern library suited my needs we'll. Was only 5.00 dollars too.

>>21223328
modern library and everyman's library carried the past century

>>21222318
use the context you stupid Retard.

>>21223328
>only buying hardbacks
Extremely cringe. You've probably never even read them. Might as well buy Funkopop Society editions.

>>21222318
boomerspeak for "lol deadass"

>>21224356
Okey doke. I haven't read suttree yet, but I've read the others. Those were all around 5 dollars, I don't get the comparison.The highSmith is one of my faves.

its because one of them horsebacked prairie niggers was wearing a jesters outfit while killing people dumbass.

>>21224356
So you don't like my Trollope folios?

>>21225964
Is the James Ellroy LA quartet worth reading?

>>21225522
I liked Suttree over blood meridian, you will too if you’re absolutely miserable like myself

>>21222560
>>21223264
Wish they had made the art look like Chamberlain’s art in My Confession. Would’ve been sick.
>>21223328
Like the Modern Library version too. I have the one that’s a variation on th og art.

>>21222318
I literally how no idea how this isn’t immediately graspable.

>>21222368
Based

>>21227940
Suttree is the greatest novel ever written IMO, and definitely cormacs best (I’ve read every book he ever wrote twice+)

>>21227094
Ellroy is mostly a good writer.
There’s usually a certain amount of sexual perversion that seems excessive and unnecessary.
At least a couple of the novels tie up the plot with explanations crammed in towards the end that can seem contrived.
The writing quality is really good otherwise, and tends to pull one thru to the end.

>>21228035
Is the Outer Dark worth the read?

>>21225522
>>21225964
>taking the b8 this hard

>>21228124
Its pretty good but Corncob was still sounding like if someone pressed Faulkner through a sieve made of Moby Dick, though not as obvious as Keeper. It wasnt till Child that he started developing his own voice, which he had mastered by the time he finished Suttree

>>21228133
Damn well I like both Faulkner and Melville so this sounds pretty interesting, thanks anon!

>>21227959
That would require them to give a shit about the book

>>21228035
Nah, Suttree is overwritten. It's his 4th or 5th best book.

>>21228035
Jesus. Why is the first edition of Suttree so expensive? The road is cheap

>>21228400
Page number difference and the first edition of suttree is a lot older than the road, it’s also long out of print.

>>21223264
I wish they wouldn't hog the first decent translation of Dr Zhivago behind a $+100 hardcover

>>21228400
There were probably only 5000 in the first edition of Suttree and about half didn’t sell and got pulped
There was probably 50,000 copies for the first edition of The Road and they sold out in a few weeks.

>>21228133
>Corncob was still sounding like if someone pressed Faulkner through a sieve made of Moby Dick, though not as obvious as Keeper
Eh, I disagree. The biggest outlier in McCarthy's prose canon is still The Orchard Keeper. I have read that book thrice now and it is by far the most different in style even to its immediate successor in Outer Dark. Conversely, the prose in Child of God is basically Outer Dark but sparer. Neither reads like Faulkner except in their gothic tone; and certainly not like Melville.
The presiding deities in Outer Dark are Sophocles, Dante, Kafka and a tinge of Isak Dinesen imo.

>>21222318
it means "a hilarious death." Are you serious?

>>21222318
fuck does that image have to do with the book?

>>21228124
Yes. It’s my favorite of his lesser novels. The other poster is right about though, it’s before he really found his voice. The dialogue in Outer Dark is top notch too.

>>21222318
they're dressed like fucking clowns, one is wearing a bloodstained wedding dress and all of them are just wearing random shit they found. it would be be funny if they weren't savages riding them down to murder them. can't believe you made it that far in if you couldn't figure that out

>>21222318
These sell well so I’d expect at least one more in the series. Unfortunately that will probably be No Country. By merit Suttree or the Border Trilogy would be better.