This was my first McCarthy. Enjoyed it a lot and want to get into some of his other, less accessible stuff. Where do I go next with McCarthy?
hate to break it to you, but mccarthy is pretty accessible
you try-hard
Blood Meridian
Suttree
Child of God
Border Trilogy
Ordered from best to worst imo. Read in any order you want.
>>7650218
Blood Meridian is incredible.
It's a meme, but Blood Meridian is head and shoulders above No Country. It's pretty accessible too
Blood Meridian is 90% thesaurus words for "barren wasteland", and 10% Judge Holden. Worth it for the Holden.
>>7650230
I never said McCarthy was inaccessible. No Country For Old Men just reads like a screenplay.
pls no bully
>>7650218
No Country for Old Men is by faaaaaar the worst thing he's ever written. garbage.
Suttree is his masterpiece, Blood Meridian is p decent
>>7650255
it's aight, I was just contending "inaccessible" as a selling point for a work
>>7650277
That's a fair point. I didn't intend for "less accessible" to mean "better", I just wanted to get somewhat deeper into his work
>>7650218
To be honest, none of McCarthy's stuff is too inaccessible. His absolute must-reads are Blood Meridian and Suttree. Outer Dark, Child of God, and the Border trilogy are all worth reading too.
The Road is practically pop lit at this point, but it is still really good.
>>7650293
just read and be happy ;)
He's only got like ten books, and they're all written at like a seventh grade reading level. Shouldn't take you more than a week.
>>7650469
Nah
Not a huge fan of No Country, I thought it was his worst book, too.
>>7650469
No. It's not even remotely hard to read. IIRC he just said he was put off by all the scalping.
>>7650218
straight to blood meridian but you can read the road before that, just to get the weakest of his novels out of the way. it takes several hours anyway.
>>7650250
Are you saying that extensive research into landscape features for the sole purpose of showcasing the irreverent nature is bad?
Did you also hate how Gene Wolfe inserted tons of Greco-Roman coinisms into Book of the New Sun?
>>7650469
No, BM is one of the easiest things I've read in a long time. The allegory is really really obvious too; and, under normal circumstances, I'm terrible at picking up on that shit.
>>7652108
What allegory?
>>7652144
In a few words, the totality and inescapability of war, which the Judge represents: throughout the novel he catalogs things and destroys them, which shows war's all-encompassing scope, and that it leaves nothing behind; he finds The Kid after decades, which shows war's unavoidable nature; and, to reach a bit, he is described as a great pale figure, which shows that, like the pale horse, he is death's vehicle.
>>7652162did he fuck him in the shitter or rip his head off?
>>7652278
I thought it was rape,but I'm also pretty lewd.
The symbolism doesn't really change either way.
>Reading Suttree intro while shitting
