Are there any Cormac McCarthy fans out there?

child of god is the one i want to read next

getting through blood meridian felt more like digging a hole

digging a hole to bury someone in

i tried to get through blood meridian three times

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Should've stuck with reading it once first.

it took you fifteen minutes to come up with that??

Yup

cormac could've written a chapter killing off an entire village in that space of time.

I'm a fan. Enjoyed reading "Blood Meridian". But I wonder if his allusions to Melville, Milton, and Wordsworth add more weight to the novel than it deserves. Some parts are overwritten, and I don't know what I'm supposed to do with all that blood.

michael chabon on mccarthy & apocalyptic fiction: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/19856

wow, great article

agreed.

Great stylist, good on campy (not that he sees it so no sir) Southern Gothic crap, takes himself way too seriously.

suttree is fantastic

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 30 September 2008 23:34 (4 months ago) Permalink

read this since christmas- it felt in some strange way (thematically, maybe) to me like the type of book you were made to read aged 11 in english class and report on, but obviously a lot more adult in the terms and details.

Kind of like a gritty version ofI am David or The Silver Sword, maybe.

it's definitely "first novelish" in that he's basically revisiting his youth, and the knoxville of his youth, and the feelings he had as a young man (specifically the rejection of his parents), and i can see how that comes across as a youth novel but the language itself is so forbidding and ornate and even the plot itself is so opaque i don't really see it that way

okay so i am currently reading blood meridian and finding it one of the best things ever. the language can be obscure, but it's so glaringly visual! which he somehow obtains without even describing much. i would never have imagined something so bad ass, violent and macho could be so beautiful.

what u ain't never watched profeshnal boxin buhfer?

i tried to get through blood meridian three times

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― Mr. Que, Thursday, October 30, 2008 10:40 AM (5 months ago) Bookmark

blood meridian is great and only a slog for the first 80-100 pages or so and thereafter becomes absolutely gripping in my experience reading it (once.)

yeah i think i've stalled around page 100 all three times ;__;

i'm still only around page 90 and it hasn't shown any sign of sloggin'.

hey has anyone read suttree? i've just picked it up at the bookstore. and flipping through it it looks as if there's alot of dialogue in it, which i think should be a good thing since all the dialogue in blood meridian was pure gold. also, the back cover has the most lovely description ever. "the funniest and most unendurably sad of his novels" or something.

Itill have the same reservations about Suttree as I had above, but I've just re-read Blood Meridian, and I might just re-read it again. I still don't have a clue what (if anything) is moving the story, but it gripped me a lot tighter this time round.

suttree is beautiful, alot less exhausting than blood meridian but equally less gorgeous as a result. makes up for relative blandness with wonderful dialogue, happiness, and great sometimes extremely likeable characters. harrigate is so endearing, it's like the more naive and stupid and wrong he is the more i like him, honesty oh man.

goes a long way.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a6a4629e970c-800wi

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Here you go, stans

Pic 9 - "Chicago" cast shot

http://media.knoxnews.com/media/img/photos/2007/12/07/1209cormac9_t607.jpg

Love it!

Child of God

^ skipped through this the past few nights before bed. I don't really have any thoughts on it, other than it's like an anecdote from a longer McCarthy, just fleshed out (poor choice of words there maybe). Enjoyed it- again, dialogue and associated quirks of language are so vital.

HBO doing a film of his two-character play The Sunset Limited (which I loved and was surprised it didn't get more attention), starring Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson.

finished The Orchard Keeper but it took awhile for such a short book.

I read No Country for Old Men - loved it. Read The Road, it was amazing. Bought a ton of his other books - never feel like opening them.

Try the border trilogy i guess.

My ex-wife used her vagina as a goddamn holster. Whilst disputing with her current paramour the affections of space aliens. While wearing lingerie in New Mexico. From where it was placed in her womansparts, she retrieved it and then pointed at the man and asked Who is crazy you or me?

?!?!?

In the moonlight she had innercourse with that goddamn Colt. Heard it from the next room. She yelled again WHO IS CRAZY YOU OR ME. In her lingerie she bought from the Sears down in Yuma when she was staying with her mother. I did not answer her.

I walked in and she removed that goddamn Colt from her interior and pointed it at my head her lip quivering. Why I did not answer her. Deputy, I don't know how but I got that goddamn Colt out of her hand and took it straight to the bathroom and dropped that goddamn Colt in the toilet. Shoulda flushed it. I had had enough of this woman tonight and her goddamn crotch holster, Deputy Zook, I can't take no more of that.

a-

My ex-wife used her vagina as a goddamn holster.

I misread this too quickly as "My ex-wife used her vagina as a goddamn lobster."

not a lot in it, to be fair

With a gun and a lobster, I'd say it was pretty crowded.

lol http://www.theparisreview.org/the-art-of-fiction-no-223-cormac-mccarthy

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/30/books/early-cormac-mccarthy-interviews-rediscovered.html

sorry, two new ones in the next eight weeks? wtf?

I know, right?

The Atlantic has said some things.

I went through a really intense McCarthy phase a few years back, centered most of all on Suttree but also on the horsey ones.

Dunno if I need this new material, given how much mayhem is already out there in the world. For me, C McC was partly an escapist reading experience. I could get lost in his louvhe world when my own life was basically pleasant. In times when life actively sucks, however, I am less interested in gritty fiction.

*louche

"I was planning on writing about a woman for 50 years. I will never be competent enough to do so, but at some point you have to try."

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James Wood: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/12/19/cormac-mccarthy-peers-into-the-abyss-the-passenger-stella-maris