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18586377 No.18586377 [Reply] [Original]

I got filtered by the prose. I can't stand it.

>> No.18586380

>>18586377
>I can't stand it.
Same here. I had to force myself to finish it and I'm not sure if it was worth it.

>> No.18586387

>>18586377
>>18586380
Drop it if you don't like it.

>> No.18586393

>>18586377
Okay.

>> No.18586435

>>18586393
Not the real butterfly.

>> No.18586485

>>18586377
Personally I love it. It helps reading it out loud at first so you can feel the tone and the texture of the language.

>> No.18586541

>>18586377
imagine getting filtered by literal capeshit

>> No.18586543

>>18586541
>everything I don't like is capeshit

>> No.18586549

>>18586377
I always get this nigga mixed up with EL Doctorow

>> No.18586573

McCarthy has a very dense prose style, and I’ll explain that. What I mean by that is a person, place, or noun in general very rarely ever gets described as good, bad, terrible, or other simple yet also vague ways of describing something. For instance, the Glanton Gang, in the mid section of the book, is described as “men coming from the absolute rock” “before nomenclature”. A straightforward way to say this would call them savage or cavemen, so why have such a metaphor to describe them? The absolute rock comparison gives them an edge, literally, comparing them to the jagged and spiny stones of the hostile environment they traverse. Men before nomenclature describes a people who aren’t accustomed to naming conventions. They don’t try to identify things or categorize them. Most of their interactions are either to slay or eat something. When one of their group dies, they forget his name exists, almost like it never truly did.

I myself am currently reading it for the first time, and enjoy it greatly. I am a slow reader, and not super smart, so at times I have reread sections and taken 5 to 10 minutes to imagine a mental portrait of what the characters are doing, the environment their in, and the what the aphorisms and metaphors explain their world.

He also uses words of the time period the book is associated with. Flowers, animals, and objects are called time period appropriate things. McCarthy in general has a good grasp of English, and as such I find myself looking things up often in a dictionary.

He doesn’t use commas, semi colons, and colons at all, it seems. It gives sentences a different flow and rhythm you may not be accustomed to.

You can always come back to it later, man. I have had to quit so many novels to come back and appreciate it later. It’s your free time, and do what brings you happiness. I only encourage you to give it a second chance someday.

>> No.18586808

I liked it. Has a biblical kind of tone in spots. Certainly different enough where it's always been considered divisive.

>> No.18586943
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18586943

>>18586377
I’m a notorious speedreader and this book forced me to reflect on my actions.

>> No.18587147

Just read Faulkner, it’s the same style but done 10x better

>> No.18587159

>>18587147
I love both writers but they feel quite different. After Orchard Keeper, McCarthy doesn't feel that faulknerian.

>> No.18587342

>>18586541
Retard.

>> No.18587348

>>18587147
t.never read either of them
>>18587159
Even Orchard keeper is not that similar prose wise

>> No.18587518

>>18586377
Love the prose and setting , but nothing else really stuck with me. Even the Judge feels a bit flat because he's so obviously untouchable in the story.

>> No.18589153

>>18586377
i'm like this with gibson's sprawl trilogy. his writing feels too clunky