I like Mccathys movie adaptations of The road and No country for old men and I want to start reading his works, also I like westerns.
Is this book a good starting point for his stuff?
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You must first read Infinite Jest and Ulysses in order to understand his work.
It’s a slog because of there are a ton of long and boring descriptions of the landscape, quite a lot of antiquated words, and the weird writing style can be a pain to read (very little punctuation, etc). Other than all that it’s pretty kino. The action scenes are great. Not sure why it’s memed on here so much though
A mainstream youtuber did a video on it and made it more popular, and in lit's mind that's a sign the book was never good and that their intellectual superiority (insecurity) doesn't have time for it.
>A mainstream youtuber
wendigoon has good taste tbh
c'mon man the fricking monument mythos isn't good taste, for every IQfy thing he covers there's fourteen examples of youtube schlock
he covered paradise lost and didn't simp for satan, so he's astronomically superior to the rest of tardtube as far as I'm concerned
This
The action scenes near the end are the absolute best
It's a gritty western on the sentimentalities of life from a gnostic perspective. Go figure.
>quite a lot of antiquated words,
for a zoomer like me that's part of the fun IMO.
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>Is this book a good starting point for his stuff?
Yes. It's great. In terms of storytelling, McCarthy isn't as good as peak Faulkner, but he's pretty damn close to peak Melville.
>inb4 some gay chimes in without having read Absalom, Absalom!
A gay has already chimed in putting hillbilly soap opera on a pedestal.
yea it’s really good and once you get past his writing style it’s very gripping. I read it as a teenager, and it blew up online recently which is a big deal for a long ass book so I think shows that it is of highly recognizable quality
>a long ass book
it's not even 400 pages...
true I remembered it being longer for some reason
that's because you don't ever actually read.
>movie adaptations of The road and No country for old men
No Country was literally a screenplay.
Which was adapted into a book and then a movie
>also I like westerns
>I like Mccathys movie adaptations of The road and No country
You'll want Orchard Keeper for the Moonshiner last gasp of Old South post WW2, and then The Border Trilogy. On a strictly movie adaptation basis there's the filmed version of The Gardener's Son & The Counselor (latter's meh), but I'd say try The Stonemason first (play) and only then Blood Meridian; it will tag team thematically from what you've seen. There's a significant number of missing scenes from No Country that didn't make it to screen, critical ones -- you'll enjoy that for certain. Enjoy, frendo--
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