Stop reading genreslop.
Read Pynchon, McCarthy, Delillo and Roth
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Stop reading genreslop. Read Pynchon, McCarthy, Delillo and Roth
Stop reading genreslop.
Read Pynchon, McCarthy, Delillo and Roth
It's All Fucked Shirt $22.14 |
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Why not Updike and Barth? Or Carver and Ishiguro? Or old livejournal posts from 2004?
>Stop reading genreslop.
>Read Pynchon
hm
Please tell me what genre Pynchon is.
Marvel movie
V: picaresque
49: mystery
AtD: SF, adventure
IV, BE: crime
>GR absent
Curious.
Winter Soldier
historical / thriller / mystery
I'm reading Pirandello. Is he genreslop, o mighty OP?
N-no
Stop reading PostMoslop.
Read Melville, Dafoe, and James
This is why the "aesthetic is all that matters!" school of literary criticism is a dead end. You start praising worthless nobodies like McCarthy who are going to be completely forgotten in 40 years just because they have pretty prose.
Sorry chud, McCarthy is well regarded
>McCarthy is well regarded
Yes, he won the Pulitzer and appeared on Oprah's Book List, both reliable and exceptional indicators of an author's staying power. Who can forget, for example, the ever-relevant Ernest Poole, Booth Tarkington, or Sue Miller?
Easy there franzen
Unironically he has a better chance of being a historically influential literary figure than McCarthy. He won't, of course, but it's still more likely.
lmao
McCarthy is trash. He writes pulp for teenage boys. He's juvenile, he's simplistic. He's nothing. All he represents is a fundamental decline in our intellectual culture that someone so devoid of substance can beheld up as "the great novelist of our time", "worthy of Moby Dick." Grow up and read literature.
Didn't ask
How is he any of those things? Go into detail, I want to know why you feel this way.
The themes and sentiments pervading all of his work:
>violence and disintegration is inevitable
>we are helpless to influence the world
>almost all people are depraved and psychopathic; if good people exist, they are doomed to be the victims of the former
>higher ideals are pointless
>learning is pointless
>helping others is pointless
>just passively accept your fate and try not to get tortured or mutilated in the process
It's barbaric and primitive, not to mention childish. He's a scoundrel, and I mean that very sincerely. An enemy of thought, an opponent of humanity. He is praised because that sort of violent nihilism is very in vogue with a certain layer of upper middle class intellectuals. He has nothing of value to offer society in his works.
Holy filtered
It's not being "filtered" to disagree with someone's reactionary, apathetic, nonsensical philosophical worldview. I understand what McCarthy is trying to communicate, and it is disgusting, repugnant drivel.
It's filtered to be filtered though
Not an argument. He's not subtle, there's nothing to be "filtered" by you fricking pseud. He is very clear and open in how he views the world and humanity, and it's immature and repulsive.
fricking filtered
Filtered. The only thing you mentioned that is true is that violence is inevitable. Everything else is just wrong and due to your seething rage.
Are you basing this entirely off of Blood Meridian? How much of his work or the scholarship on it have you actually read? I find his prose not just "pretty" but quite unique and well put together, not at all in a typical way. His historical fiction is also meticulously researched and brings in much that other fiction has left out. Also easily one of the best dialogue writers that I am familiar with
I read Blood Meridian, The Road, and No Country for Old Men. I have a large enough sample size to know what the man stood for, and it makes me sick. Good riddance, I say.
Critics generally place The Border Trilogy and Suttree ahead of The Road and No Country for Old Men, don't they? I'm pretty sure Bloom specifically considered All the Pretty Horses to be his second best novel, behind Blood Meridian.
Bloom is a homosexual. The Crossing is McCarthys best
the utter cope is palpable
I KNOW
Faulkner made it onto the Oprah book list.
McCarthy is one of the best authors of our time and will be remembered.
>stop reading genreslop and read shit thats even fricking worse than genreslop
im good thanks
I was fairly underwhelmed with Pynchon. Felt like I was reading The Simpsons. I was amused by it, and I had fun, but it didn't really do that much for me.
Read it again
No.