https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/two-years-cormac-mccarthys-death-rare-access-to-personal-library-reveals-man-behind-myth-180987150/
>inb4 MORE BOOTS THAN BOOKS. CORNCOBBY COCKAMANIE CARTHYThis is great. Thank you for sharing. Now I’m going to copy his entire library.
Cormac confirmed for based Wittgenstein Chad.
>>24692592>the scholars found hardly any novels until they started cutting open boxes that Dennis retrieved from a storage locker in El Paso. Out came the entire canon of Western literature, from ancient Greece and Rome to the best novelists, poets and essayists of the 1970s, nearly all in cheap, worn, paperback editions. >“These are the books that he read in his 20s and 30s and maybe into his 40s, and he was broke that whole time,” said Dennis. “Once he got money, Cormac bought all his books in hardback if possible, and for the last 40 years of his life he read almost no fiction at all.”Cormac didn't read? He'd fit right in on /lit/
>>24692592>and he collected menswearSo easily the best of his generation it truly makes me chuckle
>>24692592Was waiting for this. Blud looked old as fuck at the end though.
>>24692592>>24692717>menswear>cowboy boots>car magazines>math and physics>gun magazines>fiction that he didn't read fast enough before he moved on with his life>an original schematic for a rifle (he also carpentered his own furniture)
>>24692686>read in your formative years >evolve into opinionated blowhard who reads nothingTrue boomer.
>>24692686>>24692749>for the last 40 years of his life he read almost no fictionso, are you illiterates, or just rage-baiting?anyway>She was unable to calculate the total number of books because the cataloging software didn’t account for multi-volume works. McCarthy’s 36-volume history of Utah, for example, registered as a single entry. Nor did the software tally multiple editions of the same book, so McCarthy’s 13 copies of Moby-Dick registered as one entry. The total number of entries was 18,520. Taking into account duplicate copies and multi-volume works, Peebles felt confident that McCarthy’s library contained just over 20,000 books, with 2,170 annotated.I find a lot to be annoyed with about thisthey could've made a damn Excel spreadsheet that could be annotated/hyperlinked and also account for multiple volumes and multiple editions, what the fuck kind of punch-card bullshit are they using?also, why not delay the publication of the article until they had some version of the list publicly available? I went to the Cormac McCarthy Society website and it says>The aim of The Cormac McCarthy Library Project is to publish a searchable online database with information about each one of the volumes that McCarthy had collected and used throughout his life. We are partnering with the University of South Carolina Press on this project, and the goal is to make the database Open Access—accessible to anyone, anywhere, without fees or restrictions...We’ll share more details about the library, its contents, and its future in the coming months, so stay tuned
>>24692592teen girls see his study and get excited or just men on /LIT/
>>24692726are you saying I wont like fiction when im old
>>24692717>books stacked on that beautiful pool tableyes Im mad
>>24692717What's the point of having 20k books? Literally impossible to read all of them. Even reading half of that in a lifetime is almost absurd. I get having reference books, but it still seems a little excessive. I guess some would be his wives' though.
>>24692991>>24692717But also 9 of those bookshelves absolutely hold more than 1000 books. They look like they hold around ~350 books a piece.
>>24692994Jesus, I'm retarded. It says nine foot tall, not 9 bookshelves.
doesn't alice in stella maris tell the psychiatrist she's read about 20.000 books? i guess she's read all of cormac's library (in 1/4th the time, quite a feat)
>>24692592Sort of off-topic, but I'm always surprised by people who own too many shoes. I went to the house of a coworker once and her room had a whole wall full of shoes like the picture.I own 3 pairs of shoes.
I read the article and it never links to the place to see the list
>Why? The answer stems from McCarthy’s deeply disparaging view of modern society, which he considered lost, divorced from nature, history and tradition and heading toward social collapse and apocalypse. “Cormac considered contemporary fiction a waste of time,” said Dennis, “because contemporary writers no longer have a legitimate culture to feed their souls.”based
>McCarthy’s detractors, meanwhile, found his writing overly mannered,>his characters overly masculineI really wish women and faggots weren’t allowed to read.
>>24692592Imagine this guy had access to a /shelf/ thread.
>>24692991>What's the point of having 20k books?Having the possibility of picking up any one of them at any time if it catches your fancy? Having a giant library that your kids and nephews can get lost in? Decoration? Mogging the plebs?
I was Mr. McCarthy's vice-fluffer when he spent a weekend at Little Saint James in 2001. I had other duties too. I helped carry his bags from the car, all he had were three pairs of boots and a tattered softback of Lolita. He was distant. I didn't really know who he was, back then. After the party was over each night he'd go for these long walks around the island. Seemed like he was looking for something. Before he left he looked me in the eyes for the first time and said, "it's all fiction". I didn't like what I saw in his gaze.
>>24693050Was your co-worker hot?
>>24692991>Literally impossible to read all of them.If he started reading when he was five years old that's one book every 1.5 days on average. If you consider reference books, planned future reads, books belonging to family members, and the reading speed of a prolific professional reader of the pre-smartphone era 20k books sounds extremely reasonable.Personally, I have a fair number of books I haven't read yet that I picked up for free/cheap with the same sort of mentality that one opens too many Wikipedia tabs. If I had as little internet access as I did when I first acquired the bulk of those particular books I'd've read them already. Mr. McCarthy didn't have that problem:>“Cormac didn’t have Wi-Fi in the house, so we had to bring our own,” he said. Nor did McCarthy use a computer—ever.
>>24693050>I own 3 pairs of shoes.I think I own 10. I've been thinking about buying some new drivers tho
>>246936142/10
>>24693050just sneakers? that's lame hope you didn't bang her
>>24692991>Of the many thousands of books in the house, the basement and the outbuildings, how many had McCarthy actually read? “If you exclude the encyclopedias and reference books, I would guess about 85 percent,” Dennis said. “Cormac kept on ordering books after he was too sick and frail to read, because it was a compulsion, but until that point he would read for hours and hours nearly every day. He never left the house without a book. He never left the house without a gun. Both were equally unthinkable.”
