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Anonymous Wed Sep 25 17:49:14 2019 No.13884696 [Reply] [Original]

This is the greatest book of all time. Convince me otherwise.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 25 17:50:45 2019 No.13884703 Convince us that it is

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 25 17:51:35 2019 No.13884705 >>13884696 I like when they spat and when they rode on and when the judge was evil

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 25 17:53:40 2019 No.13884711 >>13884696 No. It’s not. You are dumb. I am smart. The book is bad. I read half of the book and it’s bad. You are dumb retard, retard.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 25 18:02:55 2019 No.13884757 >>13884703 touche

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 25 18:04:11 2019 No.13884764 >>13884705 That actually is something I had an issue with after reading it multiple times. Like with the scene where he shoots some puppies he threw into a river.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 25 18:07:14 2019 No.13884774 >>13884705 I think the problem of a character being evil just for the sake of being evil is worse in no country for old men.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 25 18:08:37 2019 No.13884779 >>13884705 I liked when the stars burned overhead in an eternal cosmic wheel

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 25 18:11:36 2019 No.13884791 >>13884779 I liked when there was a dog with four eyes and a fifth leg.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 25 18:17:53 2019 No.13884819 >>13884791 I liked the blasted hellscape

Anonymous Wed Sep 25 18:23:08 2019 No.13884844

>>13884819
I liked how the Kid essentially was in arrested development and there was never really any character growth to the degree one is used to seeing in literature. It's more realistic. People don't really change all that much, in fact I see more regression than growth and I feel like he pulled that off. Also all the battles were cool as shit.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 25 18:26:24 2019 No.13884856 File: 19 KB, 550x389, download (2).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13884703 This image is what Blood Meridian was. A bunch of people following a personification of Death. Seventh Seal really good movie btw

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 25 18:27:01 2019 No.13884860 >>13884696 It's not even McCarthy's greatest.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 25 18:51:48 2019 No.13884963 >>13884844 But sudden powerful events can really inspire people to be different, it seems the kid was not a part of one.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 25 19:25:37 2019 No.13885119 >>13884963 Either they can change or make you double down because of fear.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 25 19:27:33 2019 No.13885128 >>13884860 What is his greatest?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 25 19:28:47 2019 No.13885136 >>13884696 It's literally an inferior rip off of Moby-Dick.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 25 22:01:43 2019 No.13885747 >>13885128 suttree, obviously

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 25 22:06:02 2019 No.13885772 >>13885136 Ive read Moby Dick. It is derivative but it's original.

Anonymous Wed Sep 25 22:11:19 2019 No.13885795

>>13884696
A few years ago I would have agreed with you. Now I go back and find the prose embarrassingly pretentious and affected. It's way too try-hard, without the saving graces of a Shakespeare, a Melville or a Joyce.

McCarthy is a b-tier writer. His books certainly won't outlive the twenty-first century.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 25 22:13:24 2019 No.13885803 >>13884856 love that movie. I saw it when I was 12 or 13 and eventually led me to being an art-film addict.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 25 22:14:06 2019 No.13885811 I liked how Glanton called pretty much everybody niggers regardless of their race.

Anonymous Wed Sep 25 22:16:13 2019 No.13885823

>>13884696

Holy shit I loved reading this while masturbating, I'd get my anal vibrator (10 inches), smoke some crystal, get out my fleshlight (extra-tight circumference with the anal opening), and start pregaming with some shemale porn while I tease my butthole, then WHOOPS ITS INSIDE, turn the button on WWHHHIRRRRRRR my inside feels funny mommy! boner engaged! quickly flip to the pages where judge rapes the indians, I stick my dick in the fleshlight and pretend I'm the judge raping that brown subhuman in the ass, his cries of gobbeltygook drowned out by my hungry panting and demonic laughter, as I approach climax I open the last page to the bathroom rape scene, sticking in the anal vibrator as far as it will go, blasting my prostate as I imagine myself as the judge holding down and sodomizing the Boy, finally splooging hard into the fleshlight, laying back panting in exhausted satisfaction...

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 25 22:19:22 2019 No.13885833 >>13884696 What did it do that Moby-Dick didn’t top in every way 130 years earlier?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 25 22:26:04 2019 No.13885864 That's not Titus Groan.

Anonymous Wed Sep 25 22:27:36 2019 No.13885870

>>13885833
It was more to the point about what it wanted to say than Moby Dick was. I feel like the tone and language masked what was going on in the novel to an extent. BM was direct in every manner. I don't ever remember a lighthearted scene or any relief from the brutality or absurdity.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 25 22:28:39 2019 No.13885876 >>13885747 I'll read that next. Just finished No Country For Old Men.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 25 22:32:17 2019 No.13885889 >>13885795 His prose contrasts well against the uneducated characters. All except for the Judge and maybe the Governer.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 25 23:46:23 2019 No.13886096 >>13884696 Actually just finished this today and while I enjoyed it I really get why people meme the repetitive prose. When McCarthy WANTS to write something profound he does so but for the most part it's what everyone memes about.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 26 00:04:44 2019 No.13886157 >>13884844 I liked Davey

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 26 00:11:14 2019 No.13886177 >>13885864 shit book, i read part of book and it wa s shit book

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 26 01:12:41 2019 No.13886343 File: 39 KB, 638x1000, received_1740872509553857.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13886177

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 26 01:15:41 2019 No.13886354 >>13884764 This but unironically

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 26 01:18:34 2019 No.13886365 >>13886343 >muh crazy kooky unlikable people >muh sprawling gothic castle setting >the world is the protagonist jesus christ just play bloodborne u absolute retarded

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 26 01:30:35 2019 No.13886411 >>13884696 close, but that's not the old man and the sea

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 26 01:58:34 2019 No.13886520 >>13886365 World is protagonist? Have you played Bloodborne? Or read any of BM?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 26 02:03:31 2019 No.13886545 File: 29 KB, 450x418, try to keep up kid.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13886520

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 26 02:05:09 2019 No.13886550 >>13886545 Exactly.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 26 02:06:27 2019 No.13886559 >>13886550 >capital e reddit

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 26 07:41:32 2019 No.13887424 >>13884696 The fact that it has no quotation marks when anybody speaks makes it incredibly frustrating to read

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 26 08:12:01 2019 No.13887528 But what exactly is the Judge? And what did he do to the boy at the ending?

Anonymous Thu Sep 26 08:17:29 2019 No.13887553

>>13885811

Yes. It was refreshing.

>>13885823

Not cool bro

>>13887528

I think he"s a nephilim (bible: offspring of fallen angel and human female). Explains his high intelligence, profound knowledge, gigantic stature (nephilim were giants). Pale and hairless and seemingly slow aging and ofcourse, corrupting evil.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 26 14:51:01 2019 No.13889082 >>13887528 I think hes demiurgic. Sort of like a demon posing as a god. Maybe an accuser of humanity like the devil. McCarthy does have a reference to Jakob Boehme at the beginning of the book. That guy is a gnostic.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 26 14:52:23 2019 No.13889085 >>13887424 I think he's right about it. It's pretty easy for me to understand whose talking but they exist for a reason, some people need them. Idk.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 26 15:09:16 2019 No.13889160 >>13884764 The Judge just threw them in intending for them to drown. It was the Van Diemenlander who shot them, if I remember correctly.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 26 15:57:23 2019 No.13889399 >>13889082 >that guy is gnostic Jakob Boehme or Cormac?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 26 17:25:56 2019 No.13889782 >>13885795 >the books I had to read in high school are better yeah okay

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 26 17:40:34 2019 No.13889843 >>13887424 Are you one of those retards that needs to see "/sarcasm" at the end of a post to know if it's sarcasm?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 26 17:41:27 2019 No.13889847 >>13889399 Jakob Boehme. Weird guy. http://jacobboehmeonline.com/

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