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CormacMcCarthy Anonymous Mon Oct 12 10:13:06 2020 No.16562070 [Reply] [Original]

What’s his best novel?
And are his books that were adapted for the screen still worth reading after the film ?

He’s been on my list to read, I just don’t know where to start

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 10:15:52 2020 No.16562083 >>16562070 Border Trilogy sounds interesting, ya? Do you have to read all 3, or can you leave off after All the Pretty Horses

Anonymous Mon Oct 12 10:24:22 2020 No.16562109

>>16562070
>And are his books that were adapted for the screen still worth reading after the film ?
All the Pretty Horses was a shit film adaptation, same with The Road. He wrote the script for The Counselor, which wasn't nearly as bad as people said it was, but it wasn't great either.

In No Country For Old Men, the book and the movie are very similar, to the point where only a couple scenes are actually different in the book, especially near the end: when Chigurh confronts Moss in the Eagle Hotel, The Hitchhiker girl and Moss' exchange, and Bell and Chigurh at the hotel in the end but, like LOTR, the movie and the book are both amazing in their own ways, so I highly recommend both of them. No Country For Old Men is also probably his most accessable novel, so if you've never read any of his work, start there.

>What Are His Best Books
Blood Meridian and Suttree are his crowning achievements where his literary style is on full frontal display. The Border Trilogy (All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain) is also really good; All The Pretty Horses and The Crossing recieved a lot of critical acclaim when they were published (Cities of the Plain, not so much). Some of his earlier works like Outer Dark and Child of God are hit and miss. Not much is said about his plays like The Stonemason.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 10:25:25 2020 No.16562114 >>16562070 I just finished Blood Meridian - difficult read but... rewarding? Maybe? Idk its made me a bit depressed desu. Beautiful book though, glad I read it. The Road is good and accessible.

Anonymous Mon Oct 12 10:33:48 2020 No.16562148

>>16562109
I would rank his novels as
>Blood Meridian & Suttree: God-tier
>The Border Trilogy: Amazing-tier
>The Road & No Country For Old Men: Really-damn-good-tier
>Outer Dark, Child of God: Meh-tier
>The Orchard Keeper, The Stonemason: Only-really-dedicated-fans-read-this-shit-tier

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 10:34:50 2020 No.16562153 >>16562109 >>16562114 Thank you both so much for Your input. Exactly what I needed Bookstore in Wednesday. We shall see what they have

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 10:36:03 2020 No.16562157 >>16562148 Shit. I’m writing this down I trust yall

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 10:38:50 2020 No.16562166 >>16562070 I read The Road after seeing the film and I think that it was still worth reading, I usually find the book better than the film.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 10:47:05 2020 No.16562200 >>16562148 >>Outer Dark, Child of God: Meh-tier probably valid ranking but personally i really enjoyed these two, very mythical, the scene towards the end of outer dark with the swine herd going mental was something else

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 11:00:30 2020 No.16562252 >>16562083 >Do you have to read all 3, or can you leave off after All the Pretty Horses They're all worth reading and the crossing is the best one

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 11:09:45 2020 No.16562276 File: 164 KB, 1280x768, see the monkey.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Suttree is the patrician's choice. Just about all of his others are worth a read with the possible exclusion of the weaker Orchard Keeper and Outer Dark.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 11:10:51 2020 No.16562287 >>16562276 Damn, his hairline hasn't changed in the past 60 years

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 14:14:28 2020 No.16563307 The Orchard Keeper, Outer Dark and Child Of God are all good

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 14:33:41 2020 No.16563389 >>16562109 What do you mean the road is pretty good for a film adaption

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 15:24:46 2020 No.16563665 cormac mccarthy more like mormac cackarthy

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 16:43:24 2020 No.16564210 >>16563665 Corncob "Tortilla" YeCarthy

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 16:51:22 2020 No.16564251 >>16562276 Where did you find this picture?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 17:09:03 2020 No.16564371 File: 453 KB, 1557x2400, hm.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] what the fuck man

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 20:32:47 2020 No.16565631 >>16564371 Pretty wild ride

Anonymous Mon Oct 12 21:11:25 2020 No.16565809

orchard keeper has a more interesting structure than most of his other books. i think it's pretty good. child of god and outer dark are his least interesting. the former is a dark comedy and the latter is a gothic wallowfest. both are pretty one note. suttree is great and everything after that is at least very good, except for cities of the plane maybe.

Anonymous Mon Oct 12 22:35:08 2020 No.16566174

>>16562083
They’re all stand-alone but the last one features the characters from the first two meeting.
>>16562252
The Crossing was frustrating for me. The first quarter is S-tier, just brutally beautiful and could have made a masterpiece of a novella on its own, and then it’s 300 pages of the same “muh destitute haciendas and arroyos” stuff that made BM and AtPH drag in their middles. The encounters with weird mystical characters are great, but there’s zero balance between “insane priest rambles about God for two dozen pages” and “Billy and his brother stand around doing absolutely nothing for three days”

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 22:41:02 2020 No.16566207 >>16562276 This. Top 5 Suttree Crossing Blood Meridian No Country Pretty Horses

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 13 00:28:05 2020 No.16566681 >>16562109 >Suttree It was a great book but very derivative of Faulkner's style. All the pretty horses and The crossing on the other hand are distinctly McCarthy in style.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 13 00:53:34 2020 No.16566792 >>16562287 Yeah, it was always JUST

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 13 09:37:59 2020 No.16568566 >>16566681 >Suttree >very derivative of Faulkner's style Not really, anon

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 13 09:48:24 2020 No.16568627 I get that he is trying to be unique, and every word is meant to matter, but learn fucking punctuation.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 13 10:19:07 2020 No.16568768 >>16566681 How so?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 13 10:33:26 2020 No.16568830 meme author meme board PSEUDO WASTELAND

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 13 10:36:44 2020 No.16568843 >>16562148 >The Road: Really -damn good tier lmao fire desire dude omg fish the road is such a huge pile of shit

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 13 10:54:29 2020 No.16568941 >>16568830 shut the fuck up turbopleb

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 13 10:59:53 2020 No.16568967 >>16568830 read a book tranny

Anonymous Tue Oct 13 11:56:25 2020 No.16569272

>>16568566
>Of Faulkner's style
Perhaps in the first ten or so pages of heavy handedness, but not really-- the bit with the pumpkins even reads like a parody.
Like saying BM too reliant on Melville's plotting, capacity for invention, and direct concerns to be placed near the top, etc.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 13 11:57:57 2020 No.16569282 >>16569272 The book owes more to Twain, arguably

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