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You excited?

>> No.20754154

>>20754123
No, it’ll be as shit as his other books.

>> No.20754288

>>20754123
Yes

>> No.20754295

>>20754123
I hope it reads easier than blood Meridian though

>> No.20754298

>>20754123
Yh probably the first books I'll buy on release for a long time - the scope and scale of them makes it seem as if we're going back to a more ambitious McCarthy, which is him at his best

>> No.20754299

>>20754123
Yes, it's (they're) going to be great. I only hope he remembers to put in plenty of untranslated Spanish. Dialogue you can understand just doesn't feel the same.

Also, what are the chances we get a HAPPY ENDING? We've had a dozen books and the closest he's come is tentatively-not-awful (Suttree). Is this where he finally puts things right? Of course it is.

>> No.20754974

The one about the schizo seems cool

>> No.20755615

>>20754299
suttree is funny. he comes off as dark and deep, troubled, but 90% of what happens are the consequences of his own actions. and its fucking hilarious.

>> No.20756475

>>20754123
Definitely. Is there any benefit to preordering?

>> No.20756485

>>20754123
>possibly the last corncob book
I'm excited but sad at the same time. At least It's going to be fun reading it with everyone else on /lit/ that actually reads

>> No.20756691

>>20756485
I think quite a few people have pre-ordered the boxed set, but you only get that on December 6th (obviously designed for Christmas presents). If you order them separately you can get The Passenger on October 25th and Stella Maris on November 22nd.

I haven't ordered them yet but I'll probably get them individually. I assume there will be threads up from Oct 25. Will be interesting; it's pretty rare for /lit/ to get excited about a new book. (I guess Houellebecq is about the only other candidate.)

>> No.20756706

>>20754123
I was in that thread when the whole plot got leaked and it sounds pretty awful, but OP said it was actually pretty good when you read it, so I don't know. Maybe. At the very least it will be funny seeing /lit/ shitpost about the kid coming back as half fish.

>> No.20756723

>>20754123
Why only 11 posts after 11 hours?

>> No.20756912

>>20756706
>he thinks that was real

>> No.20757239

>>20754123
i read heidegger hegel kant deleuze and derrida in preparation, had a mental breakdown, gonna read McCarthy in order now, then prolly reread BEing and Time cause it was the best, im just tryna get out from under MCcarthys thumb aka the fanboy-tier

>> No.20757432

I'm fucking hype, I've been rereading his bibliography to get back into the tortilla zone before The Passenger comes out.
Still haven't read his first two, are they worth the time or do they feel clunky in comparison to his more acclaimed stuff? Child of God didn't really grab me, only one of his books I'd say that about.

>> No.20757437

>>20756723
Because nobody here reads, so a new book by a famous literary fiction writer isn't an interesting topic

>> No.20757473

>>20757432
>Still haven't read his first two, are they worth the time
Orchard Keeper isn't very good. The basic prose style is there, and it's got a few decent CM touches, but he's basically just exploring the landscape. He doesn't really know what story he wants to tell. Outer Dark is better, but he's still not really on top of his material. I wouldn't say either is essential.

>> No.20757485

>>20756723
Russian and Chinese shills don't tend to read corncob

>> No.20757576

I haven't read him before, whats the best place to start? I'm currently a literature pleb

>> No.20757586

>>20757576
The Road or No Country for Old Men

>> No.20758987

>>20756723
If you haven't realized it already, /lit/ is a slow board
>>20757586
>>20757576
I found The Road to be boring. You might as well go balls deep and get the anon to start reading Blood Meridian his most well renowned book. No Country for Old Men is a good one to start at too since it lacks the weird spanglish that McCarthy loves to put in all his westerns.

>> No.20759006

>>20757576
Maybe the border trilogy. But skip Cities of the Plain

>> No.20759019

bullshit moralizing again with some dead horses and knife fights
gimme a break

>> No.20759440

>>20754298
>probably the first books I'll buy on release for a long time
same here
looking forward to reading along with the board

>> No.20759448

>>20754123
I don't read capeshit.

>> No.20759459

>>20756475
If the economy collapses and you have no money by the time the book is published, the book will already be bought. Hopefully you won’t be too malnourished to read and enjoy it though

>> No.20759465

>>20759006
Is this a common opinion? Been a few years since I read the trilogy but I agree, I was incredibly disappointed by Cities of the Plain as a follow-up to The Crossing in particular.

>> No.20759483

>>20759465
Yeah Cities on the Plain was pretty disappointing. Though the ending of Cities of the Plain really stuck with me.

>> No.20760569

>>20759465
Cities was weird because it was obviously written first but is supposed to be a coda to the first two. Billy being a smartass hooligan who gleefully kills a bunch of feral dogs was so jarring it left a bad taste in my mouth. Ultimately I still think it’s worth reading, John Grady’s arc is great and there are a lot of conversations with the old ranchers that reminded me of No Country when Bell visits his cousin towards the end. Knife fight at the end was also pure ludo.

>> No.20760577

after i got burned by bleeding edge i'm not buying any more books by geriatrics on death's door no matter how good their early work was.

>> No.20760701
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20760701

It'll be fun reading alongside you all anyway, even if it's shit.
>tfw the leaks are true and it's full of weird bullshit

>> No.20760739

>>20754123
Yes

>> No.20761917

>>20754299
>Of course it is.
the leaks didn't exactly give that impression

>> No.20762066

>>20759465
The Crossing was an exercise in abject human misery whereas Cities felt like a direct sequel to AtPH since it felt like a grimmer continuation of the former's romanticism. I barely even consider them a "trilogy" other than both characters linking up in Cities, since they're so thematically different.

>> No.20762492

>>20754123
I'm excited and I'm looking forward to reading it and I'll be posting about it on /lit/ and I'll be updating my goodreads and when I finish reading the first one I'll start reading the second one and when I finish the second one I'll reread the first one and then I'll reread the second one and when I've reread them both I'll have read them each twice and also they rode on

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20762516

>>20762492