Cormac McCarthy- based or cringe ?

[Anonymous No.17889772]

What does 4chan think of McCarthy ? I read Blood Meridian and thought it was great. I'm reading through No Country for Old Men and yea the movie was pretty faithful to the book so far.

I like the writing, it's clean and to the point. No quotes used for the dialogue (I've always hated that). Any recomendations for other books/authors ?

[Anonymous No.17889777]

He is an American writer, it's all I need to know to avoid him

[Anonymous No.17889788]

>>17889772
I really enjoyed The Road, and some anon says Suttree is amazing too.

And you should read the complete stories of Flannery O'Connor.

>>17889777
Cringe. You will never be a woman.

[Anonymous No.17889865]

>>17889772
>What does 4chan think of McCarthy?
He's great, one of the most notable prose stylists in recent history. His skill as a stylist overshadows his skill as a novelist, but some of his stuff is really amazing anyways.

>Any recomendations for other books/authors ?
Definitely check out The Crossing and Suttree, those two along with Blood Meridian are the holy McCarthy trilogy

As for similar authors, check out McCarthy's primary influences, mainly Herman Melville and William Faulkner. Also check out Charles Frazier, Dennis Johnson and Flannery O'Connor for more southern gothic fiction


>>17889777
ok

[Noko No.17889889]

To me he seems to have several different writting styles. Early novels are derivative/influenced by faulkner. Then blood meridian which is like the king James bible, then he adopted a very minimalist style which I'm not a fan of.

I think suttree is my favourite book by him.

[Noko No.17889918]

>>17889772
> Any recomendations for other books/authors ?

Jim Crace is quite clearly influenced by McCarthy, especially the pest house.

[Anonymous No.17889924]

McCarthy is based but people who like McCarthy are cringe.

[Anonymous No.17889930]

>>17889918
>Jim Crace
What book do you recommend?

[Anonymous No.17889932]

>>17889772
>>17889788
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcGZRYftGVg

[Anonymous No.17889954]

>>17889930
The pesthouse is most similar to McCarthy in style and content. Its a post-apocalyptic type affair set in America. It's easy to find an epub on libgen.fun if you want to try before you buy.

[Anonymous No.17889958]

>>17889954
thanks, anon!

[Anonymous No.17890047]

>>17889889
They say it but I can't see the Faulkner in Child of God, apart from his general influence on Mccarthy.
Faulkner derivative has apparently come to mean any book set in the south with biblical themes and a strong vocabulary. Morrison is labelled as Faulknerian but once again I can't see it being derivative.

[Anonymous No.17890055]

>>17890047
well, Morrison is more Faulknerian in the themes she uses in her books; McCarthy is more Faulknerian prose-wise

[Anonymous No.17890073]

I read the road for a highschool book project and the lack of grammar conventions pissed young me off because I hadn't gained an understanding of modernism yet. I was thinking about giving him another shot after I was done with faulkner

[Anonymous No.17890078]

>>17889772
Based writer but cringe fanbase

The historical fidelity of blood meridian is staggering, he also has a nice style which has predecessors yet is uniquely his own

[Anonymous No.17890080]

>>17889772
>What does 4chan think of McCarthy ?
/lit/ has always hung out of McCarthy's back pocket except for a little stretch in 2016-early 2017 when we had too many zoomers.

Glad you are enjoying it. For author's influenced by him check out Philip Meyer.

[Anonymous No.17890085]

I mean

He's no Joyce

kek

[Anonymous No.17890117]

>>17890085
Faulkner was joyce's heir
Mccarthy was faulkner'd heir
So therefore, mccarth is the closest thing we have to joyce

[Anonymous No.17890137]

>>17890117
Joyce is one of the four writers McCarthy admires the most. McCarthy is also ethnically Irish so there is that as well.

[Anonymous No.17890171]

Just finished Blood Meridian. What the fuck was that ending, I understood none of it

[Anonymous No.17890758]

>>17890171
yeah pretty much

[Anonymous No.17890851]

Good middlebrow writer

[Anonymous No.17890865]

>>17889772
>based or cringe
Your thread is therefore deemed not worthy of a response from myself.

[Anonymous No.17890867]

>>17890851
Let me guess: you're the resident miltonfag

[Anonymous No.17890872]

>>17890171
he danced

[Anonymous No.17892062]

>>17890171
something like the boy/man practiced war/violence for most of the book, then rejected war so war/judge killed him off and continued on leading the rest of the dancers in the dance
broad ineloquent strokes, violence never sleeps and never dies

[Anonymous No.17892067]

>>17890872
like a wave on the ocean, romanced