/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.20035389]

https://lithub.com/cormac-mccarthy-is-publishing-two-new-novels-this-fall/

Two novels

[Anonymous No.20035403]

>>20035389
Huh, so that leak on /lit/ from a few weeks ago was true.

[Anonymous No.20035410]

oh god it's actually happening

[Anonymous No.20035414]

>>20035403
I was thinking about that too.

[Anonymous No.20035426]

>>20035403
What leak, what did I miss?

[Anonymous No.20035429]

>>20035389
New York Times post
>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/08/books/cormac-mccarthy-new-novels.html

[Anonymous No.20035435]

>>20035389
We made it bros

[Anonymous No.20035438]

Didn't Cormac die 11 years ago?

[Anonymous No.20035441]

>>20035426
>>19894010

[Anonymous No.20035456]

>>20035438
that was joyce

[Anonymous No.20035473]

>>20035389
That poster on here was correct then, wow

[Anonymous No.20035520]

>>20035403
>>20035473
I wonder if the trannie character will be true.

[Anonymous No.20035540]

[Anonymous No.20035558]

[Anonymous No.20035643]

Anyone gonna pre-order? Would that be stupid?

[Anonymous No.20035655]

lmao if the leaks were anything to go by this is gonna be one of those legendary late-career disasters that makes people reconsider his entire ouevre

[Anonymous No.20035657]

>>20035389
I can almost guarantee these works are going to be ranked as his absolute worst.

[Anonymous No.20035660]

>>20035655
This is what I was thinking. His fanbase would desert him

[Anonymous No.20035671]

>>20035660
He's gonna hit the hay soon anyways. Plus punishing an artist for their latter day sins is stupid. Plus you haven't even read them yet

[Anonymous No.20035692]

>>20035655
He already did that.

[Anonymous No.20035695]

>>20035671
Think it is more a comment on how superficial his fanbase is than the quality of the work itself. Plotfag?

[Anonymous No.20035700]

>>20035438
no, that was me

[Anonymous No.20035711]

>>20035389
MODS STICKY

[Anonymous No.20035730]

>“The Passenger,” which comes out on Oct. 25, takes place in 1980, in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast. The plot is set in motion when Bobby, a salvage diver, gets assigned to explore the wreckage of a sunken jet off the coast of Mississippi, and discovers that the plane’s black box, the pilot’s flight bag and the body of one of the passengers are all missing. With the pace and twists of a thriller, the 400-page narrative follows Bobby, who is haunted by his memories of his father and sister, as he gets drawn into the mystery of the plane crash, and realizes he may have uncovered something nefarious when strange men in suits show up at his home.

>“Stella Maris,” which will be released on Nov. 22 and serves as a coda to “The Passenger,” tells Alicia’s story, over roughly 200 pages. The narrative unfolds entirely in dialogue, as a transcript between Alicia and her doctor at a psychiatric institution in Wisconsin in 1972, where Alicia, a 20-year-old doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University of Chicago, receives a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia.

McCarthy's been hanging around the Santa Fe Institute for a while now so not surprised to see hints of his fascination with science seep in here unlike his previous works.

[Anonymous No.20035734]

>>20035730
hahahahahahha holy fuck he has gone full reddit

[Anonymous No.20035738]

From that leak it sounded like McCarthy had taken some Pynchon-pills so I'm 100% excited.
Either it's gonna be absolutely great or terrible horseshit and either way I'm down.

[Anonymous No.20035750]

mcccarthy said trans rights

[Anonymous No.20035752]

Can’t wait for the scene where the hallucination of the kid from blood meridian does a hip hop performance or whatever.

[Anonymous No.20035753]

>>20035730
>unlike his previous works.
It didn't appear in the plot or characters but it was clearly there all along in themes, prose, and diction, particularly in Blood Meridian. Blood Meridian has a more science-laden prose style than 90% of science fiction.

[Anonymous No.20035754]

>>20035750
What the hell is a "trans right"?

[Anonymous No.20035761]

How do I get a first edition

[Anonymouṡ No.20035777]

>>20035730
>Bobby, a salvage diver, gets assigned to explore the wreckage of a sunken jet off the coast of Mississippi,
It will be fun to see how CM describes all those underwater scenes. He's never done that before has he? The closest is the scenes on & around the river in Suttree, or the river-crossing thing in Outer Dark. He's spent most of his career in the desert. This will even things up a bit. Put some sharks in, Cormac.

[Anonymous No.20035780]

Pinecone better release The Japanese Insurance Adjuster and Pandemonium of the Sun on the same days.

[Anonymouṡ No.20035793]

>>20035657
It's hard to imagine they will be the masterpieces people hope, but it depends how long ago he started them. The longer ago the better I think.

[Anonymouṡ No.20035805]

>>20035730
AFAIK, the extracts we've heard are all from the schizo mathematician woman, aren't they? And they didn't sound good, I have to admit. Pop-culture level mishmash of trendy STEM stuff. But an intrepid salvage diver battling barracuda and giant squid in a sunken plane could be fun.

[Anonymous No.20035819]

What was the leaks???

[Anonymous No.20035836]

>>20035389
https://nautil.us/the-kekul-problem-6082/
I recommend everyone read this essay by McCarthy.

[Anonymous No.20035866]

>>20035692
tfw ywn be as charismatic as javier bardem

[Anonymous No.20035867]

>>20035819
>I think the way McCarthy wrote the characters makes it very adaptable. It's similar to Suttree, in that it focuses on a cast of quirky deadbeats in a Southern city (in this case, New Orleans), and a central character who is a misanthropic genius / outcast who has decided to slum it out because of past trauma. But whereas Suttree is largely about a fisherman and a water-melon fucker, Passenger is about a really cool salvage diver and a genius schizo physicist and a bar owner who quotes Rilke and a trans woman (yes, there's a trans character) and FBI agents who spend their time tracking down aliens (yes, there are aliens). As you can see, the latter are more flashy and "dynamic" characters. Western I could also see being played by a pretty big named actor. He's honestly very similar to Rust Cohl from True Detective. Depressed genius sigma male haunted by the past. He's almost too cool, though (was a physicist who then became a Formula 1 race car driver who then inherited a million dollars in Nazi treasure from his Grandma). The one thing that definitely wouldn't sit well with a mainstream audience is the fact that Western has an incestuous relationship with his sister. Another aspect of the novel that's very strange. In fact everything with the sister is strange, the parts with her are unironically most similar to something Pynchon would write.

>The aliens are mentioned by a duo of FBI agents who are investigating Western after he salvages a recently crashed plane that is mysteriously missing a passenger. That's the central problem of the book and also the source of its title. I'll admit the Nazi thing is a bit facetious on my part, but the grandma is a Jewish exile who hides a bunch of gold coins in her house that Western discovers shortly after she dies. His father also worked alongside Oppenheimer in developing the atom bomb or some shit, I couldn't tell. And yes, the two have a sexual relationship that starts when she's 13 and Western is in grad school for physics. During the sister's sections, the ghost of the Kid from BM constantly mocks her for wanting to fuck her brother.

[Anonymous No.20035878]

>>20035867
>Eh, it's not that bad, just like a "commercial" primer of some of his earlier works. By far the worst aspect is the way he injects pseudo-scientific dialogue into nearly every scene. It's like the textbook example of a writer having his character repeat widely available facts in order to appear smart, rather than making them actually do smart things. Like, in a part I just read, a character literally is describing the kind of rifle Oswald used (there's a good amount of Kennedy tier conspiracy theory shit in the novel, which combined with the emphasis on physics and looney tunes cutaways reminds me of Pynchon), and Western suddenly blurts out how "Energy increases equally with mass but it increases with the square of the speed", which really impresses the guy he's talking with. It's just very try-hard, like McCarthy got a little too high off of sniffing his own farts after hanging around all his Santa Fe science buddies for a couple decades

>Surprisingly about 70% of the novel is dialogue, but there is a lot of Gothic prose that uses archaic language. Just flipped to a random page and saw
>He walked back through the Quarter. Past Jackson Square. The Cabildo. The rich moss and cellar smell of the city thick on the night air. A cold and skullcolored moon driving through the skeins of cloud beyond the roofslates. The tiles and chimneypots. A ship's horn on the river. The streetlamps stood in globes of vapor and the buildings were dark and sweating. At times the city seemed older than Nineveh.

>Yes exactly, Western even comment at one point how his sister could see into "the heart of numbers" or some shit, and realizing that made him switch to physics. But for her it's not even math as he understands it, since that would be transforming her experience of the world into a "tool". There's also a twenty page section in which Western explains the relationship between quantum theory and Heidegger. That part was very gripping. It's definitely McCarthy's most philosophical novel since Blood Meridian.

[Anonymous No.20035890]

>leakbro was right
cormacsisters not like this

[Anonymous No.20035892]

>>20035878
>Just finished the book. The ending is superbly written, and very depressing. Little is resolved narratively. The MC is on the run from the IRS, he realizes he's losing his memory of his sister, and then he kind of fizzles out. He also meets the kid who his sister was hallucinating. Strangely enough the plane with the missing passenger is never brought up again, but I'm imagining it'll be acknowledged in the second book.
>She's an alcoholic prostitute that works at a strip-joint or something of that nature, but in typical Cormac fashion, she also quotes Pascal and knows neuroscience and shit like that. I could see the alphabet people getting pissed at her representation, but she was well written imo (plus there are other things for the New York Times to bitch about, such as the fact that Cormac casually uses the gamer word like a hundred times)
>Yeah I'm afraid I have to confirm your suspicions, at about the halfway point the dialogue starts to read like some Neil Degrasse Tyson or Kip Thorne pop-sci fi book (Cormac even falls for the time travel meme, which is unfortunate). I think half the audience will like that aspect and the other half will hate it. I stand somewhere in between, it wasn't too overbearing but, like I said in a previous post, I rolled my eyes at a lot of sections.
>The ending had a lot of typical Cormac passages, so I'll post a few of them.
>I had this recurring dream of you. One of two. Alone on the ocean floor in your indiarubber unionsuit. Fleeing some yawning subduction. You struggled in those hadal deeps like a man wading through mucilage while the pugs of your leaden shoes closed slowly in the loam behind you. The plates creaking. The clouds of silt rolling slowly up to engulf you. Your lamp had eked out and you were left to make your way in the eerie light of the ancient fumaroles smoking in the distance like standing candles. That was something more than poetic in your flight before those hellish sealamps out of whose sulphurous womb it well may be that life itself was brokened in the long ago.
>Another dream section (there's a lot of these)
>He'd seen him one final time in a dream. God's own mudlark trudging cloaked and muttering the barren selvage of some nameless desolation where the cold sidereal sea breaks and seethes and the storms howl in from out of that black and heaving alcahest. Trudging the shingles of the universe, his thin shoulders turned to the stellar winds and the suck of alien moons dark as stones. A lonely shoreloper hurrying against the night, small and friendless and brave.

[Anonymous No.20035898]

this has to be fake. post a second source that's not a three paragraph article from a literally who copying 4chan posts. this article was probably made by leakfag

[Anonymous No.20035901]

>>20035558
fucking hideous graphic design

[Anonymous No.20035904]

>>20035898
sixth post you mongoloid. the paper of record. are all yecarthyfans this lazy and retarded?

[Anonymous No.20035906]

>>20035692

Are you serious? This film was 10/10

[Anonymous No.20035908]

>>20035836
Interesting read, thank you.
There was also a fair few Britishisms in there, I wonder if he has a bong gf.

[Anonymous No.20035911]

>>20035730
Sounds Kino

[Anonymous No.20035914]

>>20035901
way better than the stock photo horrors of >>20035540

[Anonymous No.20035915]

>>20035898
>>20035429

[Anonymous No.20035917]

>>20035904
>>20035915
bro

[Anonymous No.20035924]

>>20035917
It's real anon, there's nothing to debate about it.

Now we wait to read and see how much of the leak was true.

[Anonymous No.20035929]

>>20035878
Don’t Look Up — Written by Cormac McCarthy.

[Anonymous No.20035933]

>>20035924
well now it's pretty much undeniable that he read the book. the question is why is someone with actual connections posting on /lit/

[Anonymous No.20035938]

>>20035933
its fun

[Anonymous No.20035945]

>>20035933
I'd post here if I ever became famous.
Maybe I'm famous already, you'll never know hyuk hyuk.

[Anonymous No.20035948]

>>20035933
I guess there's a very leaky anon who works at Knopf and gave it a read.

[Anonymous No.20035950]

>>20035867
>the ghost of the Kid from BM constantly mocks her for wanting to fuck her brother
I can't wait to see that passage posted here for the first time.

[Anonymous No.20035951]

>>20035692
>>20035906
She fucked the CAR

[Anonymouṡ No.20035966]

>>20035558
>cover to be revealed
Not only that but those books aren't 400 and 200 pages. They're about the same size.
That whole thing looks like a load of nonsense to me.

[Anonymouṡ No.20035976]

>>20035906
No it wasn't. It was 7½/10, but people hoped for 11/10, so they called it 3/10.

[Anonymous No.20035982]

>>20035933
>the question is why is someone with actual connections posting on /lit/
Because he's a retard, like everyone else on /lit/. So while it's true that these two books are real, and it's probably true anon read them, his opinions and conclusions are worthless.

[Anonymous No.20035983]

>>20035734
>having an interest in anything science related is now “full on Reddit”
Jesus Christ

[Anonymous No.20035993]

>>20035933
>the question is why is someone with actual connections posting on /lit/
this is when 4chan is at its best, when it works as a sort of information checkpoint, and why it will always be superior to alternatives like reddit etc. it's a shame many potential leakbros have probably been scared off throughout the years, by stormfaggotry and schizos yelling "shill" at everything that isn't in the /lit/ 100

[Anonymous No.20035994]

>>20035933
If you are even moderately successful than 4chan is the only place on the net where you can post without worrying about what you say.

[Anonymous No.20035995]

>>20035951
yeah that was hilarious

[Anonymouṡ No.20035999]

>>20035950
The Kid never mocks anyone in BM, though. (That's one of his most noteworthy characteristics, given everyone else in the gang likes mocking people.)

Why would he suddenly turn into a snarky MOCKER just because he's a ghost? Makes no sense.

[Anonymous No.20036000]

>>20035976

Nah it was 10/10 instant classic.

[Anonymous No.20036002]

>>20035966
they're placeholder mockups you dimwit. all popular books get them, pic related

[Anonymouṡ No.20036003]

>>20036000
Sure, it was 10/10, just like Fast & Furious 23 and whatever else you watched this week.

[Anonymous No.20036004]

>>20035403
No it wasn't. Consider suicide. Nothing in that article confirmed anything in that thread. People already knew there were two different novels based on copyrights/ISBNs.

[Anonymous No.20036006]

>>20035389
Well, I’ll be avoiding /lit/ for about the next eight months until it’s released to avoid spoilers. See you soon bros.

[Anonymouṡ No.20036007]

>>20036002
Sure, so basically the books aren't how the books will be and the cover art isn't there yet. So what they're showing us is what a boxed set of two hardback books looks like, geometrically. We already know that.

[Anonymous No.20036017]

>>20036007
the image isn't to convey any information to anyone, it's to have something to put on webstore pages

[Anonymous No.20036018]

>>20036007
it's just to make it look legitimate and to increase preorders. a little more enticing than pic related, no?

[Anonymous No.20036022]

>>20035750
Did he actually? Incredibly based.

[Anonymous No.20036031]

>>20035982
>>20036004
OO TELL EM WHY U MAD

[Anonymous No.20036033]

>>20035983
>Western suddenly blurts out how "Energy increases equally with mass but it increases with the square of the speed", which really impresses the guy he's talking with.

This is the kind of Sally Rooney tier cringe that reddit loves.

[Anonymous No.20036038]

>>20035750
Obsessed

[Anonymous No.20036045]

>>20035999
>It's explicitly said like she read the book and knows the book in a meta way,? Or just thekid is introduced as a character and you piece it together that's who it is?

>The latter. He's referred to as the kid, wears a cowboy hat, and talks with a lot of "aint's" and that whole dialect. Except he's also half-fish, for whatever reason. There aren't any explicit call-backs, but it can't be totally coincidental either, since McCarthy's obviously aware of the associations of that name. I don't know why he's there in the story, but he is.

[Anonymouṡ No.20036055]

>>20036038
>trans woman

Gentlemen, let me introduce —

Antoinette Chigurh
(But you can call her "Sugar")

[Anonymous No.20036057]

>>20035933
Fuck me... I remember thinking that it was probably a larp, yet the thing that made me doubt was how strange it was to put that much effort into fooling fucking /lit/. Wild.

[Anonymouṡ No.20036062]

>>20036045
>Except he's also half-fish, for whatever reason.
So now we know what the Judge did to him in the jakes. He turned him half into a fish.

Hold me Niggerman, etc.

[Anonymous No.20036079]

>>20036045
>The fishchild flopped to the floor and cleared its branchiae.
>Now, this is a story all about how
>My life got flipped-turned upside down
>And I'd like to take a minute
>Justa chill, come hang
>I'll tell you how I fell in with ol' Judge and the Glanton Gang

[Anonymous No.20036101]

>>20036006
Huh, i never thought Mario looked this much like an actual goat

[Anonymous No.20036119]

>>20035389
Great, more fucking trash sent into the world

[Anonymous No.20036121]

200 pages of a woman talking? Yeah, no thanks.

[Anonymouṡ No.20036128]

>>20036121
>Finally write a female protagonist
>She's a paranoid schizophrenic

What did CM mean by this?

[Anonymous No.20036167]

i saw this posted on twitter and the synopsis instantly reminded of that anon's leak lmao

>1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wetsuit and plunges from the boat deck into darkness. His divelight illuminates the sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their seats, hair floating, eyes devoid of speculation. Missing from the crash site are the pilot’s flightbag, the plane’s black box, and the tenth passenger. But how? A collateral witness to machinations that can only bring him harm, Western is shadowed in body and spirit – by men with badges; by the ghost of his father, inventor of the bomb that melted glass and flesh in Hiroshima; and by his sister, the love and ruin of his soul. Traversing the American South, from the garrulous bar rooms of New Orleans to an abandoned oil rig off the Florida coast, The Passenger is a breathtaking novel of morality and science, the legacy of sin, and the madness that is human consciousness.
https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/cormac-mccarthy/the-passenger-stella-maris-boxed-set/9781035003808

[Anonymous No.20036181]

>The sister, Alicia, is the protagonist of Stella Maris (and McCarthy’s first female protagonist)
He had a female protagonist in Outer Dark in 1968

[Anonymous No.20036208]

>>20035389
>Two at once
Uhh what. Is that done?

[Anonymous No.20036307]

>>20036003
The Counselor is unironically 10/10. The insane unreal existential poetic dialogues mixed with Ridley Scott's heavily glitzy and glamorous cinematography creates this singular film where all of the Hollywood facades are subservient to McCarthy's simmering hell. It's like what Lynch's Mulholland Drive does with noir tropes, but way less dreamlike and more Southern Gothic.

[Anonymous No.20036474]

>>20035734
umukni majku ti jebem klosarsku

[Anonymous No.20036494]

>Through the kale and the weeds and the outer tinge of the darkening layer of the Ocean crust forever deeper among the crustacean bodies tumbling towards what eroding fate awaits them on the belly of the wave where unblinking stares collude in mute understanding so that no predator can broach their communion and the penetrating spike of a sunburst glint dies off long before the corroded hull inblown outward appeared there he shone his pneumatic torch and saw the bubbling flesh and the flutter of minuscule piscaea feeding on the rot.

[Anonymous No.20036525]

>>20035657
Can't imagine them being more forgettable than Cities of the Plain.

[Anonymous No.20036927]

>>20036525
Filtered

[Anonymous No.20036978]

>>20036307
You got it.

[Anonymous No.20036980]

>>20036494
Kek

[Anonymous No.20037150]

>>20035752
He turns into a fish, based on the leak.

[Anonymous No.20037355]

>>20035730
Passenger sounds boring, Stella maris could be interesting.

[Anonymous No.20037359]

[Anonymous No.20037371]

lmao he pussied out of writing a major novel from a female perspective

[Anonymous No.20037383]

>>20035734
Son, he was already Reddit-lite.

[Anonymous No.20037387]

>>20035754
Like when you are on the right track of the desert camino, cowboy.

[Anonymous No.20037400]

bros... maybe the tenth passenger... is the reader

[Anonymous No.20037419]

I'm going to read these for my first McCarthy, genius or not.

[Anonymous No.20037426]

>>20036101
Mario is the G.O.A.T.

[Anonymous No.20037429]

>>20037371
Who in the fuck wants to write from a female perspective at all besides troons wishing to self insert

[Anonymous No.20037437]

>>20037429
go back

[Anonymous No.20037444]

>>20037437
You will be buried in a shallow grave with your real name

[Anonymous No.20037459]

>>20037444
go back to r/book, illiberal chud.

[Anonymous No.20037461]

>>20037426
What about Joelle? She's the P. G. O. A. T.

[Anonymous No.20037487]

Just pre-ordered The Passenger. I'll Stella Maris soon after I read it.

[Anonymous No.20037489]

>>20037487
I just pre-ordered the Box Set including both, so I win

[Anonymous No.20037496]

>>20037489
You have to wait until December to read it, fag. The box set also isn't a first edition, per se.

[Anonymous No.20037506]

>>20037426
Love that lil nigga like you wouldn't believe.

[Anonymous No.20037542]

>>20035389
Amazin'

[Anonymous No.20037995]

>>20037444
kek

[Anonymous No.20038369]

>>20035750
Hell yeah fuck chuds

[Anonymous No.20038633]

he obviously never stopped writing. I wonder on how much unfinished shit is he sitting on that will get released post-mortem

[Anonymous No.20038786]

>>20036181
According to leakbro this one also has le reddit incest.

[Anonymous No.20038797]

>>20035389
foreal? I need to hurry and finish the Border Trilogy

[Anonymous No.20038873]

>The new book is a sequel to Blood Meridian, far off in the future.

[Anonymous No.20038893]

[Anonymous No.20038904]

Thinking back to that post from the leak thread that said Pynchon was ghostwriting McCarthy's new novel and McCarthy is ghostwriting his, and they'll collect their joint Nobel Prize in literature dressed as a pantomime horse.

[Anonymous No.20038982]

>>20038904
imagine the kino

[Anonymous No.20038995]

>>20038893
kek I remember that post

[Anonymous No.20039001]

>>20037359
will request this from the library and read both in a day. Excited :)

[Anonymous No.20039013]

Reminder to read Suttree and then post everywhere that it's his masterpiece and BM is clearly inferior.

[Anonymous No.20039019]

>>20035995
It's one of the greatest scenes in film history. Never seen Diaz do anything half as good, she was really in her element.

[Anonymous No.20040144]

>>20038633
If we are lucky, after he dies, he has a very good friend who will burn all that unfinished business.

[Anonymous No.20040192]

>>20035867
>the ghost of the Kid from BM constantly mocks her for wanting to fuck her brother.
What the fuck? This makes no sense, The Kid was a child rapist but incest offends him? Also why is The Kid a ghost he got dragged to hell at the end of Blood Meridian.

[Anonymous No.20040207]

>>20036045
>The Judge turned him into a fish
the fuck?

[Anonymous No.20040265]

>>20035750
Neat

[Anonymous No.20040779]

>>20036307
I don't know what any of that means. But I liked the way they talked.

[Anonymous No.20040789]

>>20035403
I am in possession of that person's reddit account and home address. Upon release of the book if what he said in his post is true, I'll post his address, and if it is not true, I'll also post his address.

[Anonymous No.20040797]

>>20040789
based

[Anonymous No.20041366]

>>20035750
well if the greatest living author says so I guess it's time to transition sisters

[Anonymous No.20041800]

>>20041366
>the greatest living author
That has to be Pynchon though. As great as McCarthy is, I don't think he has written anything on the level of Gravity's Rainbow and Mason & Dixon.

[Anonymous No.20041848]

>>20041800
Lol gtfoh Thomas Pynchon sucks

[Anonymous No.20041859]

>>20040779
It's actually a really simple story. The Counselor tries to get into a drug deal but the deal goes south and eventually his sins come to catch up with him in the bleakest and brutalest way possible, while the truly evil and malicious manage to get away scot free. Everything else exists to develop those ideas of choice and the fall from grace.

[Anonymous No.20041976]

>Cormac's new novel is schizoid paranoid fiction involving conspiracy theories, sexual deviancy, and pseudoscientific jargon
Does this mean Pynchon's next book will be a gritty western filled with allusions to Moby-Dick?

[Anonymous No.20042111]

>>20038904
Call me schizo, but I could swear that there's a chapter of Gravity's Rainbow written by McCarthy.

[Anonymous No.20042191]

>>20035750
>>20035389

>mcccarthy said trans rights

can anyone tell me if this is actually true or not? did it just come from the fake leak or what?

[Anonymous No.20042192]

>>20041859
And the truly innocent and good gets her head cut off and thrown in a Mexican dump -

The Jefe's speech alone is Kino. - Grief is worthless, and I think I will take nap

[Anonymous No.20042717]

>>20041976
That would be funny.

[Anonymous No.20042812]

>>20035730

Literally reads like the blurb on the back of a generic contemporary thriller, RIP.

[Anonymous No.20042838]

>>20035866
he's a cool guy, but he looks like his own cosplayer in all of his movies

[Anonymous No.20042842]

>>20038904
this thread is a ripe field of keks

[Anonymous No.20042885]

>>20035389
but what's his tax policy

[Anonymous No.20042956]

>>20042191
>fake leak
oh my sweet summer child…

[Anonymous No.20043292]

>>20036307
>10/10
except the casting sucked, the story didn't work, and there were zero characters in the film
maybe you like brapping to pseudo-intellectual monologues or something but it was a bad film
he should've worked with an actual screenwriter

[Anonymous No.20043330]

>>20042812
Yeah Cormac has watered down his stuff for the past 15 years to make it more digestible to the masses

[Anonymous No.20043331]

>>20043330
He hasn’t published a book for 16 years until now.

[Anonymous No.20043353]

>>20043331
Well yes I mean The Road and his 3 or so screenplays

[Anonymous No.20043925]

>>20040192
The kid obviously wasn't the one raping children, fucking idiot

[Anonymous No.20044386]

>>20042956
answer the question

[Anonymous No.20044409]

>>20035403
>deductive reasoning

[Anonymous No.20044847]

>>20044409
>coping

[Anonymous No.20045005]

>>20035403
So I guess the kid is coming back as half fish half human.

[Anonymous No.20045015]

>>20035655
OP said it was a good read though, but then everything he said about it was so baffling.

[Anonymous No.20045031]

>>20035730
WTF. The anon was right. Everyone who was saying he was full of shit can go to eat shit now.

[Anonymous No.20045039]

>>20045015
He was a moron, he unironically missed the obvious symbolism with the half fish cowboy and assumed it was the kid. Shi is a schizo who want to fuck her brother who is a salvage diver named Western, how obvious does he have to be? Only thing stupider than that OP is all the McCarthy fans who just swallowed it whole without a thought.

[Anonymouṡ No.20045042]

>>20045015
>everything he said about it was so baffling.
Naaa. He just said Yes, the science stuff is largely cringe, but there's lots of good Cormac McCarthy-esque prose and interesting characters and stuff.

That's about what I would expect, judging from the original Counselor screenplay, which is the best indication of CM's endgame.

[Anonymous No.20045080]

>>20035933
I'm planning on becoming famous and I'll keep posting here. You're unironically my best friends, /lit/bros.

[Anonymous No.20045084]

>>20035933
I asked him for a job like 3 times and the fucker didn't acknowledge me once.

[Anonymouṡ No.20045092]

>>20045039
The siblings are Alicia and Bobby Western.

Alice & Bob are the generic names used in cryptography problems. Can't possibly be a coincidence, but what does it mean?

[Anonymous No.20045110]

>>20045092
>The siblings are Alicia and Bobby Western.
Yes, I know. She wants to fuck him and has visions of a half cowboy half fish. The symbolism is fairly blatant, making the jump to that being the kid is idiotic.

[Anonymous No.20045159]

>>20045084
Lmao, I remember you. Hope you get a job soon, anon.

[Anonymous No.20045188]

>>20041800
McCarthy is better. Come on, anon.

[Anonymous No.20045689]

>>20045188
Better how, exactly? I definitely prefer Pynchon’s creativity, humor and general thematic content, especially in Gravity’s Rainbow, Crying of Lot 49, Mason & Dixon, and Against the Day. I just prefer Pynchon’s tone and general attitude to McCarthy, who is a little one-note.

[Anonymous No.20045693]

>>20045689
>calling McCarthy one note when you love Pynchon
Enjoy your Looney Tunes dude weed bullshit with le wacky names

[Anonymous No.20045723]

>>20045693
I love both of them, and consider both to be among the greatest American writers. Pynchon just has more range and overall has more strengths (or at least apsects that appeal to me). McCarthy’s novels are a bit too similar for me, in terms of tone, setting, style, etc.

[Anonymous No.20045799]

>>20045159
But I want a Hollywood job.

[Anonymous No.20045841]

>>20035750
dude is 90 he looks at you freaks and laughs

[Anonymous No.20045855]

>>20045723
Pynchon is miles beyond McCarthy, come the fuck on

[Anonymous No.20046318]

>>20045855
In what ways exactly?

[Anonymous No.20046341]

>>20043925
Re-read the intro then re-read the midget prostitute section.