>is better than blood meridian in almost every way How did he do it and why isn’t this and Lonesome Dove talked about more here? Is it the 20-something pseuds impressed by purple prose and the implied and expressed sodomy?
Can't you faggots start a thread without baiting people with time wasting comparisons?
>>23585565No
>>23585549>mccarthy>purple proseyou have severe brain damage if you find mccarthy at all excessive
>>23585549Lonesome Dove gets a fair amount of mentions but these are western genre stories that don’t really break the mold. They’re very good, but still firmly western stories. I’d put True Grit on that list as well. Blood Meridian is genuinely something else just as Moby Dick isn’t really another marine adventure story. I think part of the resistance is just that people can’t think of a western genre story as genuinely good. I think that’s a mistake. Lord of the Rings is a genuinely great fantasy story, but it’s not transcending that form. Narnia wouod be a case of the author desperately wanting the work to transcend the form, but ultimately failing.
Um... Why are you reading problenatic chud stuff? Anyways blood meridian is better because judge holden is a wholesome theyfab queen
Uh oh… McCarthy bros.. I don’t feel so good
>>23585579BM doesn’t belong in the same discussion as Moby Dick not even close and if you genuinely think that you’ve lost your mind.
>>23585599Blood Meridian (1 985) seems to me the authentic American apocalyptic novel, more relevant even in 2000 than it was fifteen yearsago. The fulfilled renown of Moby-Dick and of As I Lay Dying isaugmented by Blood Meridian, since Cormac McCarthy is theworthy disciple both of Melville and of Faulkner. I venture thatno other living American novelist, not even Pynchon, has givenus a book as strong and memorable as Blood Meridian, much as Iappreciate Don DeLillo's Underworld, Philip Roth's ZuckermanBound, Sabbath's Theater, and American Pastoral and Pynchon'sGravity's Rainbow and Mason & Dixon. McCarthy himself, in hisrecent Border trilogy, commencing with the superb All the PrettyHorses, has not matched Blood Meridian, but it is the ultimateWestern, not to be surpassed.
>>23585549Are your jeans tucked into your boots? Are you some kind of fag?
>>23585549While I think McCarthy is technically the “better” writer on account of his prose, I find McMurtry a much more enjoyable read because he creates characters I care about and a narrative thrill (and humour) that I find lacking in McCarthy. For me, it’s a classic example of “pulp” or “popular” writing feeling more alive than “literary” writing.
>>23585642Probably just a city slicker
i loved the larry mcmurtry cowboy books when i was a teenager and they are supremely comfy, but they're not amazing literature. they're nice well written genre stuff for people who don't want to read challenging stuff. there's nothing wrong with that i suppose but if you're super impressed by it you probably haven't read a lot
>hell bitch killed newtstill haven't finished streets to this day
