/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.9983763]

Hey /lit/ I've been interested in Cormac McCarthy for a while, where would i start?

[Anonymous No.9983772]

His best work is The Orchard Keeper.

[Anonymous No.9983777]

>>9983763
start with...hehe...the greeks

[Anonymous No.9983790]

If you're very interested and would like to commit, you should start with the Orchard Keeper and go in chronological order, so you also see how he develops. If you're not sure that you want to read everything yet, maybe try something like the Road? Or the Border Trilogy? Maybe wait for another anon for a better starting point.

[Anonymous No.9983813]

Literally just read BM, Child of God and Suttree, no necessary order but thats how I did them and I would certainly recommend BM first, and Suttree being perhaps the comfiest book of all time it makes a good finisher.

Don't ever fucking ascribe to the thing of "better read the author's earlier/simpler work so that I can build up to their masterpiece". You'll just read a lesser work and the visceral aesthetic impact of the mature work will be lessened as a result of your familiarization.

Oh, and if you like those three then the next best things imo are Outer Dark followed by the border trilogy, but I am of the unusual opinion that, like Faulkner, McCarthy's quality divebombed into self-parody almost immediately after BM.

[Anonymous No.9983818]

>>9983813
note, there are exceptions to

>Don't ever fucking ascribe to the thing of "better read the author's earlier/simpler work so that I can build up to their masterpiece

but they're rare, top of my head I only think of Joyce.

[Anonymous No.9983831]

>>9983813
bad opinion is bad

[Anonymous No.9984190]

no country for old men or the road for entry level mccarthy (for shorter and focused stories)

[Anonymous No.9984289]

can't get into blood meridian
like half way through and i can't pick it back up

[Anonymous No.9984364]

>>9984289
Than read All the pretty horses, no country for old men, child of god, and than start Blood meridian again

[Anonymous No.9984383]

>>9983813
>Suttree being perhaps the comfiest book of all time

[Anonymous No.9984387]

>>9984190
this

[Anonymous No.9984396]

Suttree is his best book.

It starts with a guy getting shot in the ass for fucking a watermelon, forchirsakes.

>>9983813
>Suttree being perhaps the comfiest book of all time


this man deserves a blow job and a pack of doritos

[Yuji Sakai No.9985837]

[Anonymous No.9985881]

>>9983763
All the Pretty Horses may be more accessible. If you don't care about that, start with Orchard Keeper and just work your way through in any order.

[Anonymous No.9985900]

>>9983763
He looks like a conservative. ew

[Anonymous No.9985913]

>>9983763

The Fenian Cycle.

[Anonymous No.9987786]

>>9985900

[Anonymous No.9987792]

>>9985900
Go back to redddit.

[Anonymous No.9987987]

I haven't finished it yet, but if you remember a part in Blood Meridian where they seek shelter from rain in some place (there's that snake bitten horse with a swollen head) there's a halfbreed boy there, and in the morning when they leave he's dead with a broken neck.
Who killed him and why?

[Anonymous No.9987995]

>>9983763

[Anonymous No.9989300]

>>9983763
With his corncob pipe and his button nose obviously.

[Anonymous No.9989324]

>>9984289
i gave up on BM at the halfway point, came back a year or two later, read the first half slowly again and then suddenly was able to zoom through the second half. one of my fave books now

[Anonymous No.9989334]

why wpuld anyone read a booik when you can browse ht e meme s

[Anonymous No.9989348]

>>9987987
it was the Judge

[Anonymous No.9989383]

Just read The Road. It's the accessible one and probably the most famous one.

[Anonymous No.9989760]

Always searching for more books with the amount of gratuitous violence BM has.