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CLINT Thu Jun 30 20:13:05 2011 No.1890487 [Reply] [Original]

What is /lit/'s opinion of Cormac McCarthy?

>>	petulant Thu Jun 30 20:16:05 2011 No.1890498 I like some of his work, while not caring for others. The Road is good. No Country, not so much. Overall hit or miss for me.

>>	CLINT Thu Jun 30 20:17:05 2011 No.1890500 i take it here he's quite popular

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 30 20:21:05 2011 No.1890513 >>1890500 Pretty much. I don't really like him though really. His prose feels really forced, manufactured. I'm in the minority though, I think.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 30 20:21:05 2011 No.1890514 Blood Meridian is god-tier.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 30 20:23:05 2011 No.1890519 I enjoyed No Country and The Road. I preferred No Country honestly. I'm actually reading Blood Meridian right now and I think... Cormac McCarthy may just be insane. Maybe.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 30 20:25:05 2011 No.1890526 His style is terrible and he has seems to be very much enraptured by the macho archetype..it's so funny because he's a pencil neck who glorifies violence..the man probably couldn't lift a hand gun much less shoot the thing. My opinion..he sucks.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 30 20:27:05 2011 No.1890529 >>1890526 Is this copy-pasta because I saw a tripfag post that exact same thing.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 30 20:30:05 2011 No.1890537 >>1890529 No that pasta is fresh. Hivemind I guess..i've been up for more than 24 hours now so I guess i'm starting to sound like a tripfag...probably should go to bed.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 30 20:32:05 2011 No.1890541 >>1890537 Probably should learn how to read, too.

Anonymous Thu Jun 30 20:34:05 2011 No.1890546
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>>1890526
>His style is terrible

Which of his styles? The one he uses in the Orchard Keeper, Outer Dark, Suttree and Child of God? Or the style he uses in Blood Meridian? Or the style he uses in The Border Trilogy? Or the style he uses In No Country and the Road? All are different styles.

>who glorifies violence

Are you joking? What work does he glorify violence? You are talking out your ass now. Having violence in a book =/= glorifying violence.

>it's so funny because he's a pencil neck, probably couldn't lift a hand gun much less shoot the thing.

None of the pictures I have seen of him gave me that impression? And what would it even matter? He looks a rugged masculine to me. He's not small either, about 6ft.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 30 20:36:05 2011 No.1890552 >>1890537 No, no it's not. I saw that EXACT same thing posted.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 30 20:40:05 2011 No.1890563 >>1890526 >His style is terrible I'd say stilted, not terrible. His prose has a lot going for it really. >enraptured by the macho archetype Agreed, but authors do tend to stick to certain themes, it's not a bad thing.

Anonymous Thu Jun 30 20:44:05 2011 No.1890577
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>>1890546
Yeah he's a real man's man (he looks like my grandma).
Also, I mean the style of Blood Meridian and The Road--you don't expect me to read all of his books like some obsessed fanboy, do you? His ''style'' is like Hemingway but with more *cringe* idiosyncratic speech.Quotes like this glorify violence :"War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner."
McCarthy uses a lot of aphoristic statements and I fucking hate that..it's so ''down home'' bullshit truisms.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 30 20:45:05 2011 No.1890580 >>1890541 huehuehue you so clever!!! I had no idea that when someone doesn't like what I like then they are illiterate.

Anonymous Thu Jun 30 22:23:05 2011 No.1890893

>>1890577
Blood Meridian is not like Hemingway. The Road he engages a minimalist prose, which have conjured a lot of the Hemingway comparisons. In his early work he more resembled Faulkner. Also, that quote doesn't glorify war or violence. It's a quote from The Judge.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 30 22:26:05 2011 No.1890904 I actually have a copy of The Road on its way in the mail, and should be here tomorrow or next week. The concept was highly intrigued and I enjoyed the bits of the movie I've seen. Looking forward to it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 30 22:39:05 2011 No.1890937 Suttree is incredible. The prose is just gorgeous without pummeling you over the head with apocalyptic violence. Just these long, incredible passages about floating river trash and southern transients. It's a brilliant evocation of place.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 30 22:45:05 2011 No.1890965 He's pretty much the best living author. Blood Meridian, and possibly The Road, are the latest additions to the western canon. Not even trolling.

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