/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.15702416]

What am I in for?

[Anonymous No.15702431]

>>15702416
Some damn fine prose.

Hate that cover tho, i bought a copy for my old man and it was the same cover.

Needs a better covahhh.

[Anonymous No.15702433]

>Whatever exists, he said. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.
>… These anonymous creatures, he said, may seem little or nothing in the world. Yet the smallest crumb can devour us. Any smallest thing beneath yon rock out of men's knowing. Only nature can enslave man and only when the existence of each last entity is routed out and made to stand naked before him will he be properly suzerain of the earth.
>…This is my claim, he said. And yet everywhere upon it are pockets of autonomous life. Autonomous. In order for it to be mine nothing must be permitted to occur upon it save by my dispensation.
>… The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate.
>…
>The freedom of birds is an insult to me. I'd have them all in zoos.

>The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.
>The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any other part. Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man's mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others.
>…
>… there are coins and false coins.

[Anonymous No.15702445]

looks like a book
blood meridian to be exact
written by cormac mccarthy

looks like you're in for a book, namely "blood meridian" by the author cormac mccarthy.

[Anonymous No.15702458]

>>15702431
always found this one quite dank

[Anonymous No.15702477]

How is this author ? I want to "read no country for old men"

[Anonymous No.15702484]

>>15702445
I meant the content and the quality of that content within the pages of the book anon

[Anonymous No.15702493]

>>15702477
Read Blood Meridian first, and then Suttree.
>>15702458
Yeah thats a dope one, i hope to get it, or a first addition someday.

[Anonymous No.15702521]

Why is it called Blood Meridian

[Anonymous No.15702526]

>>15702484
It's the gem of his westerns. Suttree is the gem of his appalachians, if you like this one.

[Anonymous No.15702537]

>>15702431
Grandma's reading her girl book again

[Anonymous No.15702542]

>>15702521
I think:
it's a reference to violence being the "meridian" or peak of human achievements. The Evening Redness in the West can also be read as a double entendre ("evening redness" as in "bloodshed that makes even").

[Anonymous No.15702557]

>>15702416
A soporific.

[Anonymous No.15702571]

>>15702416

probably the best novel ever to inspire visuals, surpassing all others. might take effort to read, but effortlessly creates landscapes and ideas in your head. what do yuros think of this book, do they appreciate it as much as americans? also if aren't familiar with the bible it will not resonate with you

[Anonymous No.15702659]

>>15702416
I've just read Tobin's telling of the first appearance of the judge with the mixing of gunpowder with people pissing on it and it was fucking great. PISS FOR YOUR VERY SOULS.

[Anonymous No.15702750]

>>15702433
I don't get it

[Anonymous No.15703259]

>>15702458
this book is great pulp.

[Anonymous No.15703274]

>>15702431
This. It makes it look like typical western genre shit

[Anonymous No.15703275]

>>15702571
>what do yuros think of this book, do they appreciate it as much as americans?
it's no moby dick.

[Anonymous No.15703343]

>>15702477
>I want to "read no country for old men"
Don't bother, it's one of the few book to movie adaptions where the movie utterly surpasses the book in every way that matters.

[Anonymous No.15703943]

I’m with >>15702493 and >>15703343
on this. Cormac McCarthy gets shit on a lot in the confines of this board because he is so popular with laypeople. He is still a great writer, however, and all of his books have a reasonable level of quality to them despite varying degrees of “literary merit”. The two that are literary and stand up to much of the other greats are suttree and blood meridian; the rest are popular fare and the depth and prose are much more surface level. I personally like The Road a lot, and The Border Trilogy is fun to read, but none of his books are nearly as well defined as BM or Suttree.

[Anonymous No.15703952]

>>15703274
It really does, i keep looking for fiction as good as this in terms of period pieces and its been difficult.

I re read it recently and all i wanted to do was re read Suttree so i could experience his writing more,

I decided on going with Faulkner, its good.. but not the same.

[Anonymous No.15703968]

How long until coens make it a film?

[Anonymous No.15703979]

>>15703943
I generally agree. I think the Crossing is a bit underrated, probably because it's in the middle of a trilogy and completely depressing. But it's got a bit more going on than many of the others.

[Anonymous No.15703989]

>>15702750
That's okay, the ending makes it kinda meh anyway

[Anonymous No.15704001]

>>15702477
Had to read it for HS. I really enjoyed it.

[Anonymous No.15704027]

>>15703979
Its the best if the 3 by far, actually a really tragic good story.

[Anonymous No.15704813]

>>15703989
Without spoilerino, can you explain thematically why

[Anonymous No.15704819]

a man that will use three obscure adjectives to describe every inanimate object in scene. Tiresome.

[Anonymous No.15704880]

[Anonymous No.15704945]

>>15704880
I don't understand this pic. Is this one of those "everyone younger than me is stupid" memes? How does this apply to Cormac?

[Anonymous No.15705166]

>>15703275
it was far mor evisual to me than MOby dick. Ill say I stopped reading moby dick 200 pages in a while ago. I enjoyed it, it felt like a shakespeare novel, but its nothing like Blood meridean prose wise. You can like it more, but thats out of a lack for the genius of blood meridean, where it really is about the prose. It's amazing, while Moby dick is a classic narrative. I like moby dick, though got bored with it, though loved blood meridean, for completely different reasons than moby dick. Firstly, moby dick isn't super adventurous, it's a man who goes on a boat, it's character driven. Blood merideans characters merely accent the landscape mccarthy paints. Anyways, I don't think you appreciated it.

[Anonymous No.15705206]

>>15705166
>meridean

[Anonymous No.15705228]

>>15705166
I think you're retarded, not for your opinion, but the way you express it. I preferred Moby Dick; Blood Meridian was at times 2 confusing 4 my brain, and McCarthy uses more outdated words than Melville does, despite the latter being a century older. Also, BM changes scene more rapidly than MD, at times things happen in BM without my knowing they're happening, the scene changes and you have to go with it and trust that things will be cleared up later, which I'm not comfortable with. I still liked BM, but preferred Moby Dick, because Melville managed to flesh out something which I thought could not be worth 500 pages of text. Blood Meridian on the other hand is a rapidly generating story that feels like a surreal RPG, it's fun but a second read is probably necessary to truly appreciate it (I've only read it once). I think I might be retarded too.

[Anonymous No.15705247]

>>15704813
The kid is killed and raped but it's not even described how he does it. It's just a let down. There's no final battle scene.

[Anonymous No.15705459]

>>15705247
Stick to anime

[Anonymous No.15705943]

>>15705247
If you want that kind of hollywood garbage then go play Red Dead Redemption.

[Anonymous No.15706054]

>>15702458
This one's even worse

[Anonymous No.15706271]

>>15704813
Not without spoilers no

[Anonymous No.15706339]

>>15706054
objectively false

[Anonymous No.15706483]

>>15706339
Objectively wrong.

[Anonymous No.15707002]

>>15702416
Good prose
Meandering plot
Great atmosphere
Ending that will stick with you and force you to highly regard the work even if you didn't enjoy it for the most part.

[Anonymous No.15707015]

besides moby-dick, what other books have the main character disappear inside a collective or gang for 2/3rds of the book? it's a comfy kinda feel. the original friendship simulation.

[Anonymous No.15707080]

>>15707015
Blood Meridian but I'm not sure comfy is the word I'd use for it.

[Anonymous No.15707088]

>>15702416
Finished it 10 minutes ago, liked it but not sure what to make of it yet. Looking forward to the last discussion thread on Sunday.

[Anonymous No.15707092]

>>15707080
yeah sorry I meant besides this and moby-dick. blood meridian gets comfier and comfier with each re-read for me but i want some new gang lit

[Anonymous No.15707124]

>>15707092
I forgot we were in a BM bread, I just happen to talk about it a lot since it sticks with me.

[Anonymous No.15707157]

>>15705247
>raped and killed
wrong

[Anonymous No.15707230]

>>15703979
The Crossing is insanely underrated, at its core it's a bizarro world version of Blood Meridian: the same themes of there being no order save that which death has put here (or however the quote goes), but on an extremely intimate scale instead of a faceless and biblical one.
I feel like most people don't even bother with it since it's sandwiched between two admittedly straightforward Western stories in the trilogy.
It's easily the most depressing of his books if that's what people are after.