[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature

View post   
File: 20 KB, 200x306, 200px-CormacMcCarthy_BloodMeridian.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
3994083 No.3994083 [Reply] [Original]

Cormac McCarthy is on of my favorite writers at the moment. What does /lit/ think of his style?

>> No.3994085

i saw your first fail thread cunt. you can't hide.

I really dig Cormac by the way. His style is really refreshing, somehow.

>> No.3994090

>>3994085
Ya I don't know what happened with the image. His simple dialogue yet highly descriptive imagery is interesting to read, plus i like westerns.

>> No.3994156

I'd read José Saramago previously (who has one book I liked; the others I thought were rather meh) so it was real easy to get into McCarthy's style of punctuation, or lack thereof. But that's really just the typographical aesthetics, really... As far as his actual style, I like it. His prose is sparse, but evocative.

I haven't read as much as I'd like, though. I've only read Blood Meridian, The Road, Child of God and No Country for Old Men.

>> No.3994827
File: 956 KB, 634x821, John Joel Glanton.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
3994827

I was just about to make a thread about this book. Read it a while back and was blown away, that was something else. So far I've read BM, All the Pretty Horses, The Road and No Country. I'm trying to decide what to read next, either Outer Dark or Suttree, I'm saving Child of God for last I think.

Does anyone know any books similar to Blood Meridian that aren't Moby dick or As I Lay dying?

>> No.3994852

>>3994827

Paradise Lost

>> No.3994871

I was seriously annoyed by all of the description of landscapes. Other than that I think he has a very strong style.

>> No.3994886

Favorite author. Style is perfect.

>> No.3994951

I like his style, but right now I'm really into Lois Lowry.

>> No.3994954

If you like his style and his book The Road. I suggest you pick up a copy of Dog Stars by Peter Heller.

>> No.3996455

i like it most when he kills dudes. whenever he describes the desert for pages and pages all i can think about is "all right red sunsets are nice and all but what about murder?" am i the only one?

>> No.3996618

I read the road, blood meridian and child of god.. Well, The Road was my favourite, by far. But when you look at Child of God for example.. its just perversion aaaaalll the time, after a certain point it was really just annoying. On the other hand I found the road to be perfect. Well.. take from that what you will.

>> No.3996719

Am I the only person who thought The Road was overly-ascetic?

I've read BM, No Country, Suttree, and aforementioned. I think No Country was my favorite, it was extremely engaging and I love the way he uses southern dialect.

>> No.3997893

>>3994951
Are you twelve?

>> No.3998129

GOAT american novel
GOAT antagonist
GOAT landscape reference for the southerwestern US

>> No.3998133

>>3998129
What does GOAT even mean?

>> No.3998135

>>3998133
goodest of all time

>> No.3998140

It's like McCarthy plays Schoenberg to Faulkner's Mahler.

>> No.3998142

>>3998135
goodest? that ain't no english i recognice

>> No.3998241

>>3998133
Greatest of all time. Don't always take it literally though.

>> No.3998273

>>3998140

>if I namedrop enough someone might mistake it for nuanced understanding

Hi /mu/.

>> No.3998275

>>3998273
>/mu/
>listening to Classical music

>> No.3998283

>>3998275
>implying Mahler and Schoenberg are Classical with a capital 'C'
>as plebby as you can get

>> No.3998291

>>3998283
>still not knowing the difference between the umbrella term and the era

>> No.3998294

>>3998283
Oh wait nigga i fucked up with the capital you're right

>> No.3998300

>/mu/ gets told yet again