Cormac McCarthy
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Is he America's greatest living writer?
Why or why not?
>>7846722
No, because Gass, Barth, and McElroy are still (barely) alive.
>>7846722
> America's greatest living writer
> Not Pinecone
Plebs.
>>7846732
Whatever you want to say about No Country for Old Men and The Road, they are far above this swill.B-but anon, he was just doing it for a fun paycheck!Sure. Sure he was.
>>7846738
No Country for Old Men is absolute dogshit. I can't believe the man who wrote Suttree even considered publishing that movie-script garbage
>>7846822
>doesn't matter, gr and m+d are better than anything mccathy has ever done (i think bm is great btw)
Just curious, where would you rank GR and M&D in the western canon? How high would you rank them? Doesn't have to be exact. Just ballpark.
>>7846722
No. Because he is dead.
>>7847000
Why do you say that, trips anon?! WHY?!
>>7847000
hell be just fine?
>>7847328
hell be fine
>>7847333
>>7847000
fucking lmao
>>7846824
it was a good movie though
>>7846722
No because Corncob "Tortillas" YeCarthy is the most overrated hack alive.
Post yfw McCarthy's last novel, The Passenger, comes out THIS YEAR.
>>7846824
Friend it was first a rejected movie script that he turned into a novel for the sake of having it adapted. But still have you seen The Counselor? The fucker needs to stick to lit imo.
>>7847505
>The Counselor
I still contend there were a few things, that I don't know how much Cormac had influence in, that fucked that movie more than anything.
>Cameron Diaz - Total casting fuck up.
>Javier Bardem - Fine casting, total fuck up on wardrobe, hair/makeup, and direction.
>Ridley Scott - Good director, bad director choice for a McCarthy.
But you're right, it wasn't very good.
>>7847000
He said he would never die.
>>7847488
sorry to disapoint you ,but it got delayed to 2017 march. check the mccarthy forums.
>>7848020
Aw, oh well, still only a year from now though. This is probably the only upcoming novel I'm really excited about, Hoping it's closer to his older work than his last two.
