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BREAKING NEWS: Cormac McCarthy, a preeminent voice in American literature over the better part of the past half-century, died today at his home in Santa Fe, N.M., his publisher, Knopf, confirmed. He was 89. Full obit to follow.
— Publishers Weekly (@PublishersWkly) June 13, 2023
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Literary Pepe
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Are there any other good living American writers? Please give recs
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What you don't like an endless stream of autobiographies written by women who were only published because they had a foreign sounding name?
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I asked for good writers, not great ones
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Brett Easton Ellis is still kicking
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He and the Tasting History guy, the last of the sane gays.
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Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo are the last of the old guard. Now, given how the publishing industry gatekeeps new writers and how the media refuses to cover books that don't focus on and take certain positions regarding social justice and identity politics, it is doubtful we will see more titans of this nature.
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Thomas Pynchon is still alive??!!
I like a lot of DeLillo's older stuff but I read one of his more recent efforts and it fell flat for me
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pretty much no unfortunately
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Cobalt Red was good. IDK if that guys american but he went to Africa to investigate Cobalt mining.
I've been reading Jon Ronson books, he's not like a "good writer" like Hemingway or whatever.
But he would probably appeal to people on this site because he writes about dumb shit (internet shaming campaigns, ICP, he also was the one who wrote The Men Who Stare at Goats.)
*also as I mentioned, Cormac did release two books in the last few years. The Passenger and Stella Maris. They're companion novels.
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I'll check em out, thanks! The mining stuff sounds interesting
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Yeah, I would recommend it. It's a pretty easy read and good.
Cobalt is used for Batteries for Smart Phones and Electric cars so there's like a huge rush to get it by the West and the Chinese.
The largest reserves of it are in Africa (because of course they are) so both east and west are competing to extract it. And they're running like slave mines to get it.
The guy goes in and tries to investigate like the mines and the supply chain, how it all works. African nonsense ensues.
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Delicious tacos is pretty bussin
Long live the ccp
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Really neighbor
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WHITNEY RYAN!
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A good read, but it is non-fiction
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Vollmann is probably the only non-ancient great American writer currently.
George Saunders is decent.
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I will check it out! Any books in particular?
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Start with Europe Central for Vollmann and Tenth of December for Saunders.
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Bernard Cornwell
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What kind of stuff does he put out?
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Top tier historical fiction: Last Kingdom, Sharpe
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Rock 'n roll, sounds good
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Laird Barron
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Is his stuff any good? I read The Croning and hated it.
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His short stories are better
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I'll give them a try in that case.
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The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All is great. Swift to Chase is my favorite collection but a lot of people criticize it for being overly confusing, and a lot of stories get really bizarre towards their ends, ymmv.
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Either, I usually stick to a ratio of 1/3 nonfiction and 2/3 fiction. Will read anything, but preferably good
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Pour one out for a real one tonight.
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the black: The good book says he who lives by the sword dies by the sword
the Judge: What right man would have it any other way
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“You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.”
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RIP king
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Just yesterday I was watching “No country for Old Men”
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I reread Blood Meridian recently. He's such a good writer
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Darn, I want to start that one, however Lolita is the next on my List after finishing Hamlet.
Frick it, I think I’ll read both of them at once even if it takes me over a month, they are so different the characters wont mix up.
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I wouldn't read another book alongside it just because it's worth devoting all your attention to one. But read Lolita next if it's also on your list (and Pale Fire, if you haven't read it)
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I already read Pale Fire, such a fun book because it doesn’t take long to realize the narrator is a schizo. Hmm, I guess you’re right, I’ll go with Lolita and then Blood Meridian to give each one the attention they deserve.
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P-do
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When you get to Lolita make sure you read the annotated version. There is so so much going on in that book and so many references you'll miss like half of them unless you have annotations pointing them out to you.
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That’s mine
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Excellent! You are in for a treat!
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I've only read blood meridian, what else of his should I read?
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Both The Road and No Country feel like soft sequels to Blood Meridian. Anton Chigurh is a less fantastic and more grounded version of the judge, a man who wishes to be a demon rather than is one. The Road is kinder, there is no badass and the novel is carried by emotional investment in the protagonists.
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I like All the Pretty Horses
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I'm reading All The Pretty Horses now! Enjoying it a lot.
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Suttree, then the Border Trilogy
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No Country for Old Men and The Road. Neither are particularly fun books but they're beautifully written like all the rest.
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Frick what a loss.
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Dude was 89 and finished two big novels right before croaking out. I'd be happy if I'm half as sharp as the man when I'm old.
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Uncle Ted and Cormac McCarthy both in the same week? This timeline is cursed!
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This is the Blood Meridian adaptation's fault.
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This means my signed copy of The Crossing just went up in value.
RIP to a legend, though
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Frick and right when your old home shut down so we can't see the unjerk.
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I didn’t care for his work.
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You lack SOVL
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What a shame.
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That fricking sucks.
I just got the books he released last year, The Passenger and Stella Maris.
RIP to a true king.
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And I just finished reading blood meridian :(
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I read The Road while in detox coming off benzodiazapines, the only book I've read in 5+ years and it was great. RIP to the GOAT.
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Good job, dude. I'll drink for your demented soul.
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Just started no country for old men after not reading for more than 4 years, this is sad.
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I may be a 🎅 white 🏳nationalist 👏 but If 😏 I see 😘 a fine 👯 asian 🍜 butt 👌 my bloodline 💦💦 bout to 💆become 🍘 a 🍙 riceline 🍱
Snapshots:
archive.org
ghostarchive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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RIP
His last book was so frustratingly good - havent read stella maris yet but I loved the passenger.
Read it
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