/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.12450266]

What does /lit/ think of Cormac McCarthy?

Personally, I really enjoyed reading No Country For Old Men, but The Road was a fucking bore and everything else I have tried to read was hit or miss.

[Anonymous No.12450276]

>>12450266
I’ve enjoyed all of his novels but Suttree and Blood Meridian are his two best and significantly greater than all his other novels.

[Anonymous No.12450358]

>>12450266
No Country is great. The storytelling flows like water. BM has too much landscape bs.

[Anonymous No.12451050]

>>12450266
It took me about a month and a half to get through BM—but now I think my reading speed and comprension has improved significantly, so that’s a good sign.

[Anonymous No.12451057]

>>12450358
yikes

[Anonymous No.12451075]

>>12450266
He seems quite intelligent. I want to be big brain like him, possible?

[Anonymous No.12451098]

Finally, in the very end I realized there truly is no country for old men, and then I woke up.

[Anonymous No.12452567]

>>12450266
His Tennessee novels are better than his westerns desu

[Anonymous No.12452583]

>>12452567
You mean his Appalachian novels?

[Anonymous No.12452613]

>>12450266
I like the border trilogy, Blood Meridian, and Suttree, but after learning more about the writing of Blood Meridian I kind of think Cormac is a bit of a pseud... then again everyone probably is, that thread about Dostoevsky in the work camp the other day was pretty hilarious.

[Anonymous No.12453112]

>>12450266
Blood Meridian is the biggest literary marvel he wrote but Suttree has personal significance to me and it's probably my favorite book of all time. I have a real soft spot for Outer Dark, The Road is just fine imo and No Country is really well written but really you could just watch the Coen Bros movie and get the same experience out of it because they basically just wrote the screenplay directly from the novel because it was already written to be a screenplay and any differences between the two are quite inconsequential.

[Anonymous No.12453187]

>>12450266
Suttree was such a great book
Child of God isn't as significant but still a m a z i n g l y paced

[Anonymous No.12453233]

Has he retired? He hasn't written anything this decade despite saying he would.

[Anonymous No.12453286]

>>12453233
Taking his sweet ass time is nothing new for McCarthy, the dude's probably got a ton of books he's just sitting on, he worked on and off on Suttree for a good 20 years and I'm pretty sure No Country sat in a cabinet somewhere for over a decade before it was polished up and published. There was mentionings a few years ago about him having a long book in the works called The Passenger and maybe even one or two others in various stages of completion and I believe at least one of them was scrapped entirely and it's pretty much been radio silence on the whole thing for like 3 or 4 years now.

It'd be nice if he put out something new but at this point it's really up in the air at this point

[Anonymous No.12454091]

>>12450266

I think Child of God is the most Corncobian

[Anonymous No.12454097]

>>12451098
and then everyone clapped

[Anonymous No.12454107]

>>12453233
He browses here. He gets triggered by the oxford comma debate, commas in general are not his thing it seems. He's a good guy though.

[Anonymous No.12454109]

BM and Suttree will become essentials in the western literary cannon before 2050. Everything else he’s wrote is fairly good, but nothing can compare to the shadow that BM and Suttree cast

[Anonymous No.12454134]

>>12453233
From what I recall, there’s various versions of his latest unpublished novel that will become available once his archives are made public

[Anonymous No.12454249]

>>12450266
Finally, we can find out what /lit/ thinks about Cormac McCarthy.

[Anonymous No.12454268]

>>12453112
>any differences between the two are quite inconsequential.
Disagree. Movie's great, but the book is a hair better.

[Anonymous No.12454270]

>>12450266
Corncob "tortillas" YeCarthy is a hack. So is Harold Boom.

[Anonymous No.12454274]

Reminder that Cormac is Irish, not American

[Anonymous No.12454278]

>>12454274
His real name is Charles.

[Anonymous No.12454284]

>>12454270
>people I don't like are hacks! HACKXXXXXX!!!11!!!1!! Haha look mum, I posted it again!

[Anonymous No.12454297]

>>12454284
>ye
>spits in tortilla and uses and instead of commas

[Anonymous No.12454308]

>>12450266

I was using the Santa Fe institute bathrooms as a vaping base camp when I heard Ol' Corncob himself slam the door open with all his over-exerted geriatric clumsiness. His graceless saunter to the urinal was accompanied by a worrisome pace of wheezing to the tiny steps he took as he steadily approached the urinal and gasped and gargled and cleared his throat and nearly moaned as he shifted from walking to unbuttoning his pantaloons. True to his legend, Corncob produced a hefty pizzle from his trousers and emanated an eliminatory gush that would have blasted a beetle clear off the rebozo.

[Anonymous No.12454312]

>>12454297
>Look mother, come here, watch this *points at his own post on his cheap computer display*, I replied with the author's quirks and stylistic choices, aren't I a comedian? hahahahahaha HACKXXXXXXX!!!1!!!!11!!!

[Anonymous No.12454317]

>>12454312
>cold autistic dark

[Anonymous No.12454329]

>>12454317
> the chief diagnostic signs of autism are isolation, lack of eye contact, poor language capacity and absence of empathy
I know exactly what Cormac is talking about.

[Anonymous No.12455311]

>>12454268
elaborate

[Anonymous No.12455384]

Someone post the Blood meridian pasta or whatvever it is

[Up No.12455631]

>>12450266
One of the best of the 20th century

[Anonymous No.12455640]

>>12455384
ah, blood meridian, monsieur? that novel is the sark and chaparral of literature, the filament whereon rode the remuda of highbrow, corraled out of some destitute hacienda upon the arroya, quirting and splurting with main and with pyrolatrous coagulate of lobated grandiloquence. our eyes rode over the pages, monsieur, of that slatribed azotea like argonauts of suttee, juzgados of swole, bights and systoles of walleyed and tyrolean and carbolic and tectite and scurvid and querent and creosote and scapular malpais and shellalagh. we scalped, monsieur, the gantlet of its esker and led our naked bodies into the rebozos of its mennonite and siliceous fauna, wallowing in the jasper and the carnelian like archimandrites, teamsters, combers of cassinette scoria, centroids of holothurian chancre, with pizzles of enfiladed indigo panic grass in the saltbush of our vigas, true commodores of the written page, rebuses, monsieur, we were the mygale spiders too and the devonian and debouched pulque that settled on the frizzen studebakers, listening the wolves howling in the desert while we saw the judge rise out of a thicket of corbelled arches, whinstone, cairn, cholla, lemurs, femurs, leantos, moonblanched nacre, uncottered fistulas of groaning osnaburg and kelp, isomers of fluepipe and halms awap of griddle, guisado, pelancillo.

[Anonymous No.12455709]

>>12455640
>arroya
?

[Anonymous No.12455721]

pretty good
shitty book covers though

[Anonymous No.12455723]

>>12450266
Ah, ye good olde corn of the cob tortilla.

[Anonymous No.12455737]

>>12455721

[Anonymous No.12455757]

>>12455737
this one is ok tier, I meant those ones

[Anonymous No.12455761]

>>12450266
Can someone explain what "crenulated heat" means? I read that sentence of his. I know each individual word, but put together have no clue of its meaning.

[Anonymous No.12455860]

>>12455761
Actually I think the word he uses in crenellated, which refers to something wavy (it comes from the design of the tops of castle walls.) I think he means when it's a really hot day and when you look at the horizon or the roof of a buidling or something and the air coming off it looks wavy.

Cornfather had a nice phrase in Lolita, I can't remember exactly, but he describes a crenellated impression in her skin left by her undies

[Anonymous No.12457460]

>>12450266
Fuck his books are hard to find in Colombia. Just hoping to read The Passenger soon...

[Anonymous No.12457510]

>>12455737
>>12455757
best covers here

[Anonymous No.12458671]

>>12457510

Here we fucking go.

[Anonymous No.12458699]

>>12455721
Dude BM hard cover has my favorite cover.

[Anonymous No.12458977]

>>12450266
no country was literally a movie script

[Anonymous No.12459062]

>>12458977
and that's a good thing

[Anonymous No.12459931]

>>12450266
>hit or miss
I guess they never miss, huh?