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One of the best books I've read this year, any other writers like this?

>> No.16441743

>>16441721
McCarthy' Border Trilogy are pretty good, and No Country For Old Men is basically a neo-western, and is also shorter than most of his other works.

What is it about it that you like, specifically? Maybe I can give you some more recommendations; my library is mostly westerns and civil war historical fiction and the like.

>> No.16441760

>>16441743
Also should mention this, some fans of his compiled a list of books that are stylistically similar to his:
>https://old.reddit.com/r/cormacmccarthy/comments/ap45ut/similar_books_stylistically_to_cormac_mccarthys/

>> No.16441762

>>16441743
I liked All the Pretty Horses better than BM, it was much more comfy

>> No.16441778

>>16441721
Faulkner is probably McCarthy's most obvious influence. He's a lot more stream-of-consciousness than Cormac though, so it might be challenging if you aren't familiar with the style. I'd recommend As I Lay Dying. It's not too long so if you hate it you can finish fast.

>> No.16441785

>>16441743
>>16441760
Thanks for reply, I'm looking for story's with the same brutal violent outlook, I'm happier the more I read depressing shit

>> No.16441825

>>16441785
try The Shootist by Swarthout

>> No.16441975

>>16441721
McCarthy is based. he lives in Tesuque NM and drives a King Ranch F250 because he knows how much it pisses off his rich """artist"""" neighbors in their Teslas and Priuses

>> No.16442450

>>16441975
>caring about what people think
Cringe, just because he cares that they hate him instead of like him doesn't make it based

>> No.16442522
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>> No.16443139

>>16441743
Anything else incredibly violent and with great prose?

>> No.16443456

I always have urge to write the next cinema western masterpiece after i real him

>> No.16443902

>>16442450
SEETHING

>> No.16443910

Oh wow another blood meridian thread for fuck’s sake

>> No.16443945

>>16441721
Waiting for the Barbarians maybe

>> No.16444014

de Maistre

>> No.16444105

Faulkner at home

>> No.16444147

>>16441721
this is the only book I've ever had to drop due to how annoying it was to read. granted, I'm not a native english speaker so that surely played a part in it, but every page got me so unreasonably angry until I finally had to give up somewhere past the 200 page mark. I will never touch another mccarthy book in my life

>> No.16444358

>>16444147
Can sort of get this. He writes like he uses a thesaurus once a page. I had to skim some parts droning on about the landscape but by page 200 I was hooked on finishing it.

>> No.16444357

>>16444147
In what way did it annoy you?

>> No.16444415

>>16444147
I'm not a native english speaker (though I read most of my books in english nowadays due to easy availability through piracy) and I really like his prose in english, I cant relate. I think his long run-on sentences and descriptions do pretty well at communicating the feel of the book and it has a lot of character.

>> No.16444538

>>16441721
I’m about 1/4 of the way through blood meridian and I love it so far. I haven’t developed much of a discerning eye for literature yet, but McCarthy’s prose is excellent and his vocabulary is immense. It’s not nearly as hard to read as others have made it out to be though which was a pleasant surprise.

>> No.16444565

>>16444358
The parts where he “drones on” about the landscape are honestly what got me interested in the book initially.

>> No.16445668

>>16441721
>One of the best books I've read this year
What makes it so good, exactly?

>> No.16445694

>>16444538
>It’s not nearly as hard to read as others have made it out to be though which was a pleasant surprise.
Yeah a lot of 17 year olds who shouldn't be posting here try this as their first "real book," and they get stunned into vapors by words like arroyo and monocline. It's one of the most obvious filters.

>> No.16446783

>>16444538
The Judge rapes The Kid at the end.

>> No.16446828

>>16446783
Support your position.

>> No.16446841

>>16441975
imagine thinking he was this dumb

>> No.16446844

>>16441778
McCarthy is a better writer.

>> No.16446906

>>16446783
>the whole last page describing the adult kid upside down with his ass gaping open and his head in the shithole after he enters and the Judge was in there naked

>> No.16446955

Someone at a bookshop recommended to me William Gay after reading McCarthy. What does lit think of him?

>> No.16447170

>>16441721
2666

the end-all of all violent books

>> No.16448380

>>16441743
I really liked Judges speaches and the vocabulary in general, even as a non native speaker
Can you recommend me something that might make me smarter and expand my vocabulary?

>> No.16448523

>>16444147
>I will never touch another mccarthy book in my life
Based.

People who huff farts will tell you that word salads are literature and that the hideous is beautiful. We know, deep inside, that this is false.

>> No.16449344

>>16441721
I think his two other masterpieces are The Crossing (part 2 of his Border Trilogy, can be read before reading part 1, preferably not before part 3 though) and Suttree.

Another book with quite a dense - yet beautiful - prose is The obscene bird of night by Jose Donoso. Really psychotic with an extremely fluid "I" and chapters that seem to rewrite the previous ones.

>> No.16449466

>>16441721
the parts where they wiped their hands on their hair, bathed in creeks, slept on the ground, ate what ever they could kill etc. really appealed to me

any other books about the hobo life?

>> No.16450727

>>16446906
Wow. Deep.

>> No.16450735

>>16441721
Faulkner

>> No.16450745

>>16446783
The man rapes the judge

>> No.16450771

why did he have to shoot that poor fucking bear?
hardest part of the book for me

>> No.16450821

I'm so much like the Judge irl it's scary

>> No.16450916

any of you familiar with Carl Panzram?
Hes like an actual documented irl judge holden
Not as charming or educated, but farily smart judging from his autobiography and he raped 1000+ men, killed 22, robbed and/or set fire to hundreds of homes and been in 17 prisons

random excerpt from his bio
>In july at salem i murdered a 11 or 12 year old boy by beating his brains out with a rock. I tried a little sodomy on him first. I left him laying there with his brains coming out of his ears