I ended a line of dialogue with a double exclamation point and I'm not changing it
the second draft of my manuscript had 849 em-dashes in it
I mentally swap the races of characters in Golden Age sci-fi to make it more interesting for the modern audience (me)
I make fun of audiobooks, but I actually just can't concentrate on them.
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I didn't really like Blood Meridian that much
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I generally liked it but it's definitely overrated. I wonder if it would get the same critical acclaim if it wasn't super verbose.
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It's an absolute masterpiece of writing and it was what really convinced me thay McCarthy was an amazing writer. His mastery of contemporary English is beyond reproach and he should be lauded as one of the literary greats.
It fails as a story.
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Of course not r-slur the point is his prose is amazing. The story itself is extremely mid and the book is solely carried on his ability to use language to make you see what he's writing about
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I liked it a lot, but I think All the Pretty Horses is way more enjoyable to read.
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I think the road is probably the most crowdpleasing
Plot is easy to process and the setting doesn't piss off western-haters
Has a nice message about fatherhood and even a somewhat happy ending even with the death
Also has several moments where he shows off his descriptive prose
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I watched the movie of the road first. It was very good, I think they did the absolute best job they could have done with the source material. But when I later read the book, there was so much more to it than the movie. The book really went all out to drive home the point that the father was a Macgyver, with long descriptions of him building all kinds of shit out of the leftover trash of society that just weren't translatable into film. And that, to me, is McCarthy in a nutshell, he's always focusing on weird details that in the hands of a lesser author would be annoying. In The Crossing, he spends an inordinate amount of time talking about what the wolf hunter's bait smells like, and it should be completely unnecessary and stupid, but instead it's captivating. The guy just has a way with words.
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I keep saying No Country for Old Men is better. As much as i love all his "mute gorgons shambling in gondwanaland" shit No Country has my personal favourite passage of all of McCarthy's prose
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