So do people pretend to like Cormac McCarthy as a joke? Like, are they pranking people by convincing them he's an amazing writer, and then they actually go and read his garbage, middle school creative writing class level books?
b-b-but the juuuuuudge maaaan >never actually read blood meridian
>>25336321mccarthy is okay but he's been around for decades. he's only gone viral lately because hollywood jews are marketing him hard since there's a Blood Meridian movie coming out later this year. it's literally unironically just viral marketing
I read The Road in just under 3 hours, and it was a complete waste of time. It's the only book I've ever read that felt like a bad adaptation of the movie instead of vice versa>we were cold and we were tired and we were hungryagain and again for a couple hundred pages. I will not subject myself to any more of his "books"
>>25337695the road was a very tightly-written, innocuous novel. i wouldnt' consider it emblematic of his writing style.
There is no more predictable creature on the face of this planet than the average anon when faced with something they liked becoming popular.
>>25336488You must be new here.
>>25337837I think you're the new one, that guy is right on the money
>>25337839Define lately because I've seen blood meridian shit posted for years now.
>>25337839You must be new here.
>>25337839>>253364882023 was when he died, obviously, and 2007-2009 was all from The Road. /lit/ has had frequent, if not daily, threads about him basically since the start, or at least as long as I've been on here.
>>25337703The Road was Cormac-lite. Honestly everything after Blood Meridian or at least All The Pretty Horses was too. He was cashing in after he'd written his best work. Who can blame him? He'd been poor as fuck for long enough.
>garbage, middle school creative writing class level booksthese yankees are wild lollook at the shit you guys are publishing/awarding/exportingyou think ocean vuong and louise gluck are better writers (real workshop rubbish writers)?
>>25336488>A live-action feature film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s notoriously violent masterpiece Blood Meridian is currently in development by New Regency. Acclaimed filmmaker John Hillcoat is attached to direct, with Oscar-nominated writer John Logan penning the script. The project has been in various stages of "development hell" for decades.
>>25337848Which lines up with how long it takes for a film to be made
>>25336321There hasn't been a single unapologetically masculine author of American literary fiction to appear on the scene since him. He will forever be the last canonical author taught in the American literary canon.
>>25336488I've been hearing about The Road since I was a kid. I read like half of it and I can't see how anybody thinks his books are good. The word "and" appears like 15 times every single paragraph. It flows like it was written by a scatterbrained child. I tried reading Child of God to see if his other books are better, and I can't even get through 50 pages. It's literally nothing. Just some hillbilly wandering around doing NOTHING. It's awful.
>retard cope threadI shudder to think what sloptok books you guys consider good literature.
>>25336321I feel like cormac mccarthy as writer does give and get the impression of very slowly rising from the mass market paperback pool and also as that gateway from the books of stephen king which really are some strange strange tales and kings does have some whole literary universe with complicated metaphysics about dimensional or something like that and the court of the crimson king and all that other stuff that were not meant to be mentioned usually and the cormac mccarthy universe were right next to that one because that stephen king universe were also filled with all these pop song fragments and pop culture debris and cormac mccarthy were still doing that mass market paperback novel but hits rocket fuel with that formula where the whole gets the value to more of the sum to the parts and part to that were that dash snow castle built from mass market paperbacks where cormac’s voice were that weird place voice melody from mass culture that seeps through and whether that writing were nice or not that were the train the writer rides and corncob also were addressed to millenial lives that came to age during that time were there were also the discussion on the meaning to these books at the time and if these books could be or could get read and understood and this just among some nebulous and arbitrary generation of readers or community of readers and corncob and pinecone are the eminences to that and to that idea to the twentieth century and the idea to that also were that these novels are from the time that the novels are from were to read the novel sometimes the only way to understand the fifties were to read somenovels from the fifties and also the thing of like what were books doing why do individuals read novel were the burning discussion and any answers or questions on that were surely welcome or something like that
>>25338302unironically, filtered
>>25336321His command of language is undeniable, but I don't enjoy his storytelling. It's too muddled and buried in abstraction to maintain a narrative flow.
>>25336321I don't like him as a joke, I like him because I think he has a lot of heart as a writer.I think he had an interesting philosophy/phenomenology worth exploring through his works.Recently read through his play The Sunset Limited, the ending got me misty eyed. Not a bad payoff for an hour's investment.
>>25336321>So do people pretend to like Cormac McCarthy as a joke?He's typically the first "serious" author that a lot of young men read, if not the only writer of literary fiction who wasn't born 200 years ago that they will read.
>>25340012his command of the comma is execrable
>>25339622I don't think you have read one page of McCarthy. Stick to garbage like king and pynchon
>>25340292stick to reddit
>>25340294That's from where you came, retard. Kill yourself
>>25340296yes yes reddit totally hates cormac maccarthy and doesn't throat blood meridian all day, stupid wretch
>>25339622>cormac mccarthy universe were right next to that one because that stephen king universe were also filled with all these pop song fragments and pop culture debris and cormac mccarthy were still doing that mass market paperback novel but hits rocket fuel with that formulaPeople here will write all sorts of bullshit and expect us to believe it. Mccarthy never sold more than 5000 copies of all his books combined until Atph, and after that he never needed the cheap mass market paperbacks. His works were completely separated from the zeitgeist and contained little to no mass culture references. Did you mistakenly come over from r/books? This seems like a retarded, insecure version of literary history because it hurts your brain to look up and research shit.
>>25340297They do now, 15 year old retard. Go back to r/pynchon from where you came. Not every writer is pop culture garbage like him, retard
>>25340301mccarthy is pop culture garbage. his only talent was writing shock gore scenes because the rest of his crap was dull. nobody would care about blood meridian, the road, or no country otherwise
>>25339622>the so called "best unknown avant garde writer in America" all through 60s and 70s, with less than 10,000 copies of combined sale in 20 years, was supposedly a mass market paperback novelistIt's okay if you don't enjoy reading him. You don't have to invent bullshit just protect your ego. We already know you are low IQ and retarded. The parody is absolutely horrible btw. It's like you only know McCarthy from what gets posted on the board sometimes
cormac mccarthy sucks dicks in hell!
>>25340303Stick to trash like pynchon, 15 year old retard. And go to back to r/pynchon. Cormac is way beyond your baboon tier intelligence, starting with the fact that you haven't even read him to begin with.
>>25340310don't like pinchon either akshully
>>25340311Then stick to king. Just stick to some or other trash because you're trash and your intelligence is an embarrassment even to dumb people and it's better not to talk about something you have zero idea about.
>>25340320cormac mccarthy is too busy sucking a donger to thank you for defending his honor
>>25340308And your mama sucks his dick in hell!
>>25340321Don't project your mama's profession onto him, chud.
>>25338068based
*boring, turgid prose with too many commas**keeps re-describing the same landscape in slightly different ways for 250-350 pages**random shock-gore passage*there, I summed up cormac.
>>25342682oh, I forgot to add that all of cormac's characters are completely one-dimensional and utterly forgettable except for his villains (the only reason anyone even remembers his work)
>>25337695Wow, so it's not just me who tried to read the Road and thought it was bad. It felt like it was written by a kid.
>>25342682>too many commasbait used to be believable
Nobody in this thread has read Suttree. Damn Shame
