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Anonymous Mon Apr 23 20:43:43 2012 No.2586408 [Reply] [Original]

> yfw you realize that Cormac is the great American author

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 23 22:20:41 2012 No.2586776 McCarthy? Well, I'm not American, but The Road was fantastic and genuinely depressing.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 23 22:21:41 2012 No.2586783 >>2586776 The Road is mediocre compared to Blood Meridian.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 23 22:22:42 2012 No.2586786 No, I think we have better. He's a fine writer, though, and there's nothing shameful in that.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 23 22:24:41 2012 No.2586792 File: 29 KB, 460x307, BillStyron.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] McCarthy ain't shit compared to William Styron.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 23 22:26:41 2012 No.2586793 >implying Faulkner hasn't been the great American author since before McCarthy was born

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 23 23:28:42 2012 No.2586935 The Road isn't half as sad as The Crossing.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 23 23:36:42 2012 No.2586950 >>2586408 Faulkner is the thinking man's McCarthy, though McCarthy is great.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 23 23:57:42 2012 No.2586980 >>2586793 I haven't read any Faulkner and I feel like I should change that. Can someone give me a basic sequence of what order I should read his works?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 23 23:58:42 2012 No.2586981 >>2586980 As I Lay Dying Light in August anywhere you want from there...

>>	Stradlater !!iwUBihX3yR3 Tue Apr 24 00:00:41 2012 No.2586988 There can;t be a best American author but I enjoy John Updike and Faulkner very deeply For anyone new to Updike I would look into "A&P" which is a short story

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 24 00:02:41 2012 No.2586993 >>2586981 Thanks. My end goal is reading Sound and the Fury so I suppose I'll start with those two.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 24 00:04:42 2012 No.2586996 I don't think I could ever choose a singular author for that honor, but I know Faulkner, Steinbeck, Stegner, Vonnegut, and Pynchon are on the short list.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 24 00:06:42 2012 No.2587001 >>2586996 are we only including novelists in this conversation why does "author" pretty much always mean novelist anyway. that don't make a lick of sense.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 24 00:08:41 2012 No.2587005 >>2586996 > Twain > Fitzgerald > Melville > Hemingway You dropped a few.

Anonymous Tue Apr 24 00:14:42 2012 No.2587010

>>2587001
This is a good question. I just chose novelist beause that was the general trend of the thread.

But if I were to branch out, I'd choose Whitman, Tennessee Williams, Poe, T.S. Eliot... fuck this I'll be here for hours.

>>2587005
Thanks bruh, I knew I left them somewhere.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 24 02:26:42 2012 No.2587188 H.P LOVECRAFT > Cormac Mcarthy

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 24 02:39:41 2012 No.2587197 Silly Frodo, that's not Cormac, that's a hobbit!

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 24 02:46:42 2012 No.2587202 a, not the

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Tue Apr 24 02:53:42 2012 No.2587206 File: 25 KB, 400x295, shadow.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2586408 Alive, maybe. But not of all time. That's Melville.

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