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Anonymous Mon Apr 19 21:14:45 2010 No.573821 [Reply] [Original]

McCarthy should feel ashamed for having won the Pulitzer for that book (the road).

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 19 21:15:45 2010 No.573823 Yes. Yes. We know.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 19 21:16:45 2010 No.573827 Why? The Pulitzer committee routinely waits until an author has already been vetted by the critical community before honoring them. It's a stupid award.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 19 21:17:45 2010 No.573829 Why did you post this in a thread and then make a new thread about it?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 19 21:17:45 2010 No.573831 >>573827 You are a stupid award

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 19 21:21:45 2010 No.573843 >>573831 that's why your mom won me

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 19 21:22:45 2010 No.573847 File: 48 KB, 351x336, 1271101986737.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>573831

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 19 21:24:45 2010 No.573857 File: 391 KB, 512x512, 000cormu.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 19 21:26:45 2010 No.573870 File: 382 KB, 512x512, 000phonehomecormu.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 19 21:28:45 2010 No.573883 Wait, I swear to God I'm not trolling (I'm just an idiot), but why is everyone saying this? I feel like I must be missing something.

thefreestman !!kUzvz9L2Fnq Mon Apr 19 21:34:45 2010 No.573905

>>573883
http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2010-03-11-lastsong11_CV_N.htm

>Cormac McCarthy? "Horrible," he says, looking at Blood Meridian. "This is probably the most pulpy, overwrought, melodramatic cowboy vs. Indians story ever written."

>"Of course!" Sparks says. "I write in a genre that was not defined by me. The examples were not set out by me. They were set out 2,000 years ago by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. They were called the Greek tragedies.

>Cyrus pipes up: "The Catcher in the Rye. That's my favorite book." She smiles. J.D. Salinger's classic may be, by law, every 17-year-old's favorite book.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 19 21:35:45 2010 No.573912 >>573905 Oh fuck off. I agree McCarthy is overrated, but don't use THAT guy as an example.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 19 21:35:45 2010 No.573910 >>573905 Protip: We are talking about The Road.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 19 21:38:45 2010 No.573926 >>573912 then you agree he should feel........ashamed? like he's getting a bunch of attention but he doesn't deserve it, as if he's nothing more than a big fat PHONY?

>>	thefreestman !!kUzvz9L2Fnq Mon Apr 19 21:43:45 2010 No.573941 >>573910 >>573912 My apologies.

Anonymous Mon Apr 19 21:46:45 2010 No.573948

Cormac McCarthy, in the only televised interview he's EVER done, told the world he doesn't give a fuck what they think and never has. Personally I love his work, The Road is indeed not his very best and I agree with >>573827 about the Pulitzer fags (they did it with Hemingway hardcore).

Still, of all his work The Road is the most accessible and certainly nowhere near bad.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 19 21:53:45 2010 No.573978 >>573905 This article made me rage so so hard. Oh god. Why did I read that? Also, am I the only one who gets mad when Romeo and Juliet is referred to as one of the greatest love stories of all time? Has Sparks even read the play?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 19 21:55:45 2010 No.573983 >>573978 FUCKING RAGED. Romeo and Juliet was Shakespeare's weakest work. Fucking main characters were about as deep and interesting as a spoon.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 19 21:55:45 2010 No.573984 obama--nobel peace prize--increasing troop presence in afghanistan--awards are demonstrative of existential ''bad faith--nuff said

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 19 21:56:45 2010 No.573986 >>573978 read romeo and juliet as a tragicomedy perhaps one of the first ever--dumb teens thinking they are in love kill themselves HILARIOUS

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 19 22:00:45 2010 No.574000 >>573978 They weren't even in love. They were obsessed with each other, but it would have worn off. Shakespeare makes this obvious because Romeo was infatuated with Rosalie(?) before meeting Juliet.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 19 22:03:45 2010 No.574008 >>573983 i assure you, twelfth night is considerably worse than romeo and juliet

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 19 22:07:45 2010 No.574030 >>573986 >>574000 The worst thing about Romeo and Juliet isn't the story, it's that no one fucking gets it. "Greatest love story ever told!" they said. I must've been reading another story called Romeo & Juliet.

Anonymous Mon Apr 19 22:07:45 2010 No.574036

>>574008
Fuck off. Twelfth Night is wonderful.

>There is no woman's sides
Can bide the beating of so strong a passion
As love doth give my heart; no woman's heart
So big, to hold so much; they lack retention
Alas, their love may be call'd appetite,
No motion of the liver, but the palate,
That suffer surfeit, cloyment and revolt;
But mine is all as hungry as the sea,
And can digest as much: make no compare
Between that love a woman can bear me
And that I owe Olivia.

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