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He can be a hard read...
You ain't seen nothin' yet.
 
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Okay, this is definitely going on my list!




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Revisiting one of the greatest books in all of American literature.

"His origins are become remote as is his destiny and not again in all the world's turning will there be terrains so wild and barbarous to try whether the stuff of creation may be shaped to man's will or whether his own heart is not another kind of clay."

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"A mans at odds to know his mind, cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but he don't want to. Best not to look in there."
 
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I took a break from books for a while.
I need to dust off Suttree and finish reading it.
Next on the list will be Blood Meridian.



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Finished reading it in May 2024. Enjoyed the story and the style.
 
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I missed this post the first go around, I will be adding these books.
 
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The Passenger and Stella Maris can be a slog at times, but are still rich with the genius of McCarthy.
Compared to Blood Meridian, they seem like the literary equivalent of Mickey Mantle returning for Old Timer’s Day in 1978 and hitting one to the warning track.
 
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I'm consuming this thing slowly, like a package of exotic food unobtainable hereafter, or like a beautiful woman who, once gone, will never return.


I thought I was odd, taking time to read a good book. To stretch it out so as not to reach an end too soon. You describe my feelings of reading a gem quite well.

Thanks for the recommendation.
Got a hold on it at the library.
 
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I love reading McCarthy and Blood Meridian is about as epic a novel as you'll find in modern American literature. I need to reread it; it's been a while.

Child Of God and Outer Dark are both pretty heavy, as well. No Country For Old Men and The Road are really good, too, and the movie adaptations were pretty faithful.


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Listening to Suttree right now and it is hilarious. It still has the classic McCarthy bleak descriptors but the subject matter and characters are very humorous. It's like Mark Twain wrote the outline of the story and let Cormac write the prose.



I'm gonna vote for the funniest frog with the loudest croak on the highest log.
 
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