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European literature
>But the most terrible agony may not be in the wounds themselves but in knowing for certain that within an hour, then within ten minutes, then within half a minute, now at this very instant – your soul will leave your body and you will no longer be a person, and that is certain; the worst thing is that it is certain
Mutt "literature"
>A woman brought them bowls of beans and charred tortillas on a plate of unfired clay. She looked harried and she smiled at them and she had smuggled them sweets under her shawl and there were pieces of meat in the bottom of the bowls that had come from her own table.
Literal gibberish

>> No.18031891

oh no I'm going to dierino vs. yummy mexican food

>> No.18031892
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18031892

Reminder that this post is bait and if you bump your a faggot. Roll to see how many pages you have to read today

>> No.18031916

>>18031882
Nigga beans

>> No.18031926

>>18031892
seethe more pseud

>> No.18031954

>>18031892
lol holler more mutt

>> No.18031958

>>18031882
>gibberish
It is very easy to understand, anon

>> No.18031969

>>18031882
obsessed

>> No.18032028

American literature is honestly overrated, and I'm not the type of person to just shit on things that are American for no reason. Euros are delusional about their own things they hold dear and probably even overrate their specific home country's literature somewhat

>> No.18032045

>>18032028
all literature is overrated, especially fiction

>> No.18032054

Op isn't that first quote from ligotti?

>> No.18032061

>>18032054
no its Dosto

would have been hilarious if it was from a burger though

>> No.18032066

>>18031882
BEANS? UH OH! STINKY!!!!!!!!!!! FARTY!!!!!!!!! BRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP BIG STINKY BRAPS!!!!!!!!!!

>> No.18032071

>>18032054
doesnt sound like ligotti at all, but that’s just my opinion. Ligotti cant help but throw ‘scary’ words like putrid and malignant around all willy nilly.

>> No.18032078

>>18031892
May as well roll

>> No.18032082

yea well the slavs have both beat.

>> No.18032091

>>18031892
Rolling :)

>> No.18032102

>>18032082
slavs are european

>> No.18032118

>>18032102
yea well the russians aren’t

>> No.18032126

>But the most terrible agony may not be in the wounds themselves but in knowing for certain that within an hour, then within ten minutes, then within half a minute, now at this very instant – your soul will leave your body and you will no longer be a person, and that is certain; the worst thing is that it is certain.
Quoted introspection of a thoughtful character; doesn't need context to be recognized as thoughtful or well-written.

>A woman brought them bowls of beans and charred tortillas on a plate of unfired clay. She looked harried and she smiled at them and she had smuggled them sweets under her shawl and there were pieces of meat in the bottom of the bowls that had come from her own table.
Quoted text meant to establish setting and atmosphere; needs context to establish greater themes of dehumanization (i.e. destroying compassion with terse text...juxtaposing a thoughtful act, presented here as a banal, with graphic violence and the numbing of the protagonist).

Sage this shit.

>> No.18032219

>>18031892
Alright then, mutt. Rolling

>> No.18032243

>>18032118
The ones that write literature are

>> No.18032448

>>18032054
The first quote is too badly written to be Ligotti desu.

>> No.18032463

>>18031892
please keep it low I hate reading it's so fucking lame

>> No.18032472

>>18031892
fag roll

>> No.18032535

>>18031882
This book could have been a zillion times better if you didn't need a goddamn dictionary to fully enjoy it. The story itself was great. The unusual words ruins it.

>> No.18032563

>>18031892
Papa bless

>> No.18032567

>The wicked know that if the ill they do be of sufficient horror that men will not speak against it. That men have just enough stomach for small evils and only these will they oppose. He said that true evil has power to sober the smalldoer against his own deeds and in the contemplation of that evil he may even find the path of righteousness which has been foreign to his feet and may have no power but to go upon it. Even this man may be appalled at what is revealed to him and seek some order to stand against it. Yet in all of this there are two things which perhaps he will not know. He will not know that while the order which the righteous seek is never righteousness itself but is only order, the disorder of evil is in fact the thing itself. Nor will he know that while the righteous are hampered at every turn by their ignorance of evil to the evil all is plain, light and dark alike. This man of which we speak will seek to impose order and lineage upon things which rightly have none. He will call upon the world itself to testify as to the truth of what are in fact but his desires. In his final incarnation he may seek to indemnify his words with blood for by now he will have discovered that words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.

>> No.18032699

>>18031882
Too unread to compare apples to apples :

"He did close his eyes. He closed his eyes and he turned his head and he raised one hand to fend away what could not be fended away. Chigurh shot him in the face. Everything that Wells had ever known or thought or loved drained slowly behind him. His mother's face, his First Communion, women he had known...."

Now which is better you DUMB MOTHERFUCKER?

>> No.18032813

>>18031892
Rick roll

>> No.18032877

>>18031882
Ok, first of all, is Blood Meridian THAT GOOD?
More importantly, is is as difficult of a read as I hear it is?

>> No.18032925

>>18032877
It's not very difficult at all. Not to read atleast.
And yeah! It's pretty damn good.

>> No.18032927

i liked The Road is was great

>> No.18032945

>>18032925
is it the best starting point for Cormac?

>> No.18032960

>>18032945
No, All The Pretty Horses or The Crossing is. After that, No Country For Old Men or The Road, and then Suttree or Blood Meridian. Everything else (The Orchard Keeper, Outer Dark, Child of God) comes afterwards

>> No.18033001

>>18032960
Crossing is not a good starting point at all.
>>18032945
Best starting point is The Road or Ncfom. Then The Border trilogy and Blood Meridian and then Suttree. His first 3 can be read anytime you wish.

>> No.18033172

>>18031892
roooolllllll

>> No.18033258
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>>18031882
Blood Meridian seems great but I'm really put off by how it's written, I'm ESL with what I think is a nice vocabulary but fuck I'm zoning out during some parts of the books, not only by the shitload of words I don't know but also by how long and drawn out the sentences are.
Also the fact that dialogs are almost blended with narration so I have trouble understanding who is talking to who or if it's just the 3rd person narration
Judge Holden seems like a kino character, I'll try to get back to it one day

>> No.18034448

>>18031892
I’ll roll for tomorrow, got work in 6 hours

>> No.18034450

>>18031892
Rollin

>> No.18034454

>>18031892
roll

>> No.18034828

>>18033258
hate to break it to you dude. but this stuff is like 8th grade reading level.

>> No.18034836

>>18033258
It's segments of greatness in between a lot of unnecessary descriptions which could have been written better.
You'll have something the likes of
>Only now is the child finally divested of all that he has been. His origins are become
remote as is his destiny and not again in all the world's turning will there be terrains
so wild and barbarous to try whether the stuff of creation may be shaped to man's will
or whether his own heart is not another kind of clay.
and then 50 pages of narration talking about the landscape until you get something like the former quote again, still would recommend it

>> No.18034854

>>18034828
That's rough, no wonder americans are as smart and cultured as they are

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18034969

>>18032535
>

>> No.18035017

>>18031892
roll

>> No.18035090
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18035090

>>18034969
There is not one made-up word in The Book of the New Sun. Also lmao @ that deviantart cover

>> No.18035115

>>18032535
You got vocab filtered

It's okay, anon

>> No.18036178

>>18034836
The landscape descriptions are what's great about it and how exactly are they poorly eritten? That quote is nothing special to be honest, most of the landscape descriptions are better written than that.

>> No.18036523

>>18032960
Shut the fuck up. Blood Meridian was my first McCarthy, you don't need to read anything else to understand it or whatever. Stupid faggot. Just pick a book and read it, it's not hard.

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18036525

>>18033258
>Also the fact that dialogs are almost blended with narration so I have trouble understanding who is talking to who or if it's just the 3rd person narration
How fuckin stupid can you be lmao just use context clues retard

>> No.18036600

>>18032061
what book? i read them all in french but it cant be The Idiot, Brothers Karamazov, Notes from the Underground, the House of the Dead or Crime and punishment.
Is it from demons? didn't finish that one

>> No.18036624

>>18036600
It's the Idiot, idiot.

>> No.18036712

>>18036624
that doesnt make sense, the protagonist of the idiot goes mad at the end he doesn't die

>> No.18036720

>>18036712
spoilers i guess deez nuts

>> No.18037005

>>18036712
It's the death monologue, it's the most famous passage on the book.

>> No.18037549

Moby dick is still better

>> No.18037551

The Faggot William Faulkner almost ruined McCarthy's oeuvre, but not entirely. Much line the rays if the sun will detract into beautiful colorful beams when they bounce off a meth pipe.

>> No.18037693

>>18031892
sex

>> No.18037703

>>18037693
OH NO NO NO NO

>> No.18038488

>>18037551
Damn he should've, then Americans can stop pretending they make art

>> No.18038648

>>18037551
How so

>> No.18038658

>>18038488
Let's stop pretending anyone anywhere makes art anymore

>> No.18038856

>>18031892
rollin

>> No.18038919

>>18031892
Last 3 digits because I'm a chad

>> No.18038956

>>18031892
roll

>> No.18038997

>>18031892
roll