What comes to your mind when you see this image?
>>8141855
people who crease books in bookshops deserve to die
There's already a thread on McCarthy. Great author, by the way.
>>8141855
Faded blue jeans, it's disgusting
Other covers are better. The ones with the scenery. This is for the, oh the guy from no country for old men what other books does he have, crowd
>>8141855
Pa. Why are eggs breakfast?
What.
You can put bacon on lunch.
Ye.
But if you put eggs on stuff it becomes breakfast?
The man spat and said the eggs are not for this world or from this world they come from the chicken but the chicken knows it not.
He wiped his chin and spat.
>>8141855
I get mad, because those covers are horrible, and it's the version i have of BM.
>>8141855
He sat at the table and picked up the tortilla and bit the tortilla and tortilla tortilla tortilla tortilla and thanked her and left.
>Old formen
Bunch of corncobby chronicles about tortillas, dirt, spitting, and saying "ye" in obnoxiously long sentences. I eternally shit on Faulkner, his disciples, and all other corncobby ilk.
The malevolent sun throbbed like a phallus on the horizon
Remember when /lit/ loved McCarthy?
>>8141893
No but I think we do
>>8141893
He's probably my favourite author. I don't care what these fags say.
>>8141855
Unbridled corncobbery.
>>8141855
those covers are way too busy.
>>8141855
A legion of horribles, hundreds in number, half naked or clad in costumes attic or biblical or wardrobed out of a fevered dream with the skins of animals and silk finery and pieces of uniform still tracked with the blood of prior owners, coats of slain dragoons, frogged and braided cavalry jackets, one in a stovepipe hat and one with an umbrella and one in white stockings and a bloodstained wedding veil and some in headgear or cranefeathers or rawhide helmets that bore the horns of bull or buffalo and one in a pigeontailed coat worn backwards and otherwise naked and one in the armor of a Spanish conquistador, the breastplate and pauldrons deeply dented with old blows of mace or sabre done in another country by men whose very bones were dust and many with their braids spliced up with the hair of other beasts until they trailed upon the ground and their horses' ears and tails worked with bits of brightly colored cloth and one whose horse's whole head was painted crimson red and all the horsemen's faces gaudy and grotesque with daubings like a company of mounted clowns, death hilarious, all howling in a barbarous tongue and riding down upon them like a horde from a hell more horrible yet than the brimstone land of Christian reckoning, screeching and yammering and clothed in smoke like those vaporous beings in regions beyond right knowing where the eye wanders and the lip jerks and drools.
>>8141969
I don't care what anyone says, this is the most vividly intense and illustrious sentences I've ever read.
>>8141969
>and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and
genius!
>>8141984
>illustrious
Well known, respected, and admired for past achievements, anon?
>>8141855
>>8141969
ah, blood meridian, monsieur? that novel is the sark and chaparral of literature, the filament whereon rode the remuda of highbrow, corraled out of some destitute hacienda upon the arroya, quirting and splurting with main and with pyrolatrous coagulate of lobated grandiloquence. our eyes rode over the pages, monsieur, of that slatribed azotea like argonauts of suttee, juzgados of swole, bights and systoles of walleyed and tyrolean and carbolic and tectite and scurvid and querent and creosote and scapular malpais and shillelagh. we scalped, monsieur, the gantlet of its esker and led our naked bodies into the rebozos of its mennonite and siliceous fauna, wallowing in the jasper and the carnelian like archimandrites, teamsters, combers of cassinette scoria, centroids of holothurian chancre, with pizzles of enfiladed indigo panic grass in the saltbush of our vigas, true commodores of the written page, rebuses, monsieur, we were the mygale spiders too and the devonian and debouched pulque that settled on the frizzen studebakers, listening the wolves howling in the desert while we saw the judge rise out of a thicket of corbelled arches, whinstone, cairn, cholla, lemurs, femurs, leantos, moonblanched nacre, uncottered fistulas of groaning osnaburg and kelp, isomers of fluepipe and halms awap of griddle, guisado, pelancillo.
>>8141969
how corny
>>8141994
Polysyndeton reverberates with beauty, man. Also, as a biblical echo it always work and it's quite easy to identify.
a banana smoothie
>>8141994
i fucking HATE this BOARD
>>8141994
it's immersive and common of flow-of-consciousness prose to use a salvo of "and's" and "or's" when laying out a scene in high detail
>>8141855
Why no The Road?
They should have The Boarders Trilogy in order.
Man those covers suck ass
>>8142032
He does it for the entire book though. He uses and instead of commas.
>>8141855
how can he write all of these but I'm still waiting for the last game of thrones book?
This old faggot is like the Men At Work of literature.
>>8142059
he has a personal vendetta against most forms of punctuation. he thinks it clutters the page.
>>8142060
He's in his 80's that's how.
>>8142069
I can see how an emasculated bi-curious genderqueer would see him that way.
>>8142076
Time is passing for R.R. Martin as well
>>8142082
Why project this hard? Get help buddy
>>8142083
Yeah but I have every confidence that Grrm will comolete his final book and not leave his editors scrambling through his notes to finish it for him.
McCarthy on the other hand is working on three novels simultaneously, and to be honest I think we'd be lucky to see one of them finished. Dude is old.
>>8142090
>nothing can get past my impenetrable shield of memes
>>8142092
>Yeah but I have every confidence that Grrm will comolete his final book and not leave his editors scrambling through his notes to finish it for him.
I don't know, dude could keel over at any minute. Average lifespan for fatties isn't that long
>>8142097
swish, two points
>>8142102
>that wasn't a three-pointer
my foot was way behind the line bro
>>8141855
why is that copy of blood meridian so fucking thick?
>>8142120
publication companies do that with more popular releases to make them seem more important because page count obviously dictates the importance of a novel.
I once saw a copy of Heart of Darkness so thick it could've told the story three times over
>>8142139
Was it printed in pt 40 font or something? I have no idea how you can make Heart of Darkness thick. Unless the paper itself was extra thick which just seems like it'd be a logistical nightmare.
>>8142158
It had just a retarded amount of pages devoted to forewards and notes from the author and annotations and maps and journals and self-important nonsense. It was obviously purposefully thick to make it look important among larger novels on the shelf
>>8141871
This is the greatest thing that has ever been posted on here
>>8142158
They add a lot of fluff to recent editions to HoD. Foreward by so-and-so, essay by some guy, an old foreward from conrad, the Congo diary, footnotes etc
>>8142158
i have a copy of the communist manifesto that's like 400 pages, filled with introductions, essays and reviews by marxist scholars
Well, nothing comes to my mind because I'm not easily impressionable like all these other faggots. Let me guess the average of all your IQs: is it 75?
>>8142006
youre a fucking dumbass, no offense. whats your favorite s4s meme you ugly bitch? cause there are few better than this one. sorry you dont understand whats going on here but it's your fault for failing to grasp the intricacies of this meme. get acquainted, dumbshit. introducing monkey. best thread on the board at any given time. just the right combo of post-ironic word association, cryptic transpondence and fuckangry rants directed towards the enigmatic monkey himself. a brilliant, enthralling synthesis. this meme has found its groove, its WAY. you havent. probably never will. aimless basic-ass surface-level fucktard
the word "meme"
>>8141855
Bad covers.
He spat and coughed on his coffee in shock. You read McCarthy?
Yes.
He grabbed at his belly with rich howling laughter and when he finished he took a tear from the bottom of his eye with his forefinger and sighed.
He spat. What's wrong with McCarthy?
Look, he said. He pulled a book from khaki green rucksack with a printed hammer and sickle on the side and pointed at the cover and tapped it with his finger and nodded with a subdued smile. See this? He said.
Yes.
This is called "literature". His subdued smile broke. You'll know it one day.
Alright.
He placed the book face up on the table. The waitress approach and tilted her head mid-conversation to see the title.
"Nausea? Ain't that the which one about the root's existent 'nd such?" She chewed her gum,
The worlds enveloped - his face redenned to match the temperment of his mind aflurry. His eyes widened and his skin itched with breaking sweat. He'd been foiled, by a waitress of all things.
>>8142855
Worst attempt at McCarthy's style I've ever seen. Bloom is rolling in his grave.
>>8142867
Ok.
>>8141855
God these editions are tacky-looking.
McCarthy is literature for people who don't read literature
Whenever other boards have a pick your favorite book thing his name always comes up
He was born in New England, why do y'all call him a corncob
>>8142930
Exactly for that reason. He acts and writes like he's this folksy ye olde tyme Midwesterner and it's all complete bullshit. He even changed his name to Cormac from Charles or something.
>>8141871
10/10 Cormac impression.
>>8142820
butthurt samefaggot strikes again
>>8141893
/lit/ still does, it's literally one guy doing the memes
>>8142069
dude that Down Under song was brilliant
>>8142855
0/10 don't quit your day job
I can't imagine hating an author so much that you spend 100 % of your time making troll posts on 4chan when you could be reading or actually having a life
>>8141855
Dissapointment
>>8141855
death traps
>>8141855
the graphic designer ought to be shot
>>8142006
>he keeps writing "monsieur"
"i fucking despise anglo writers, why are they so bland compared to the rest of the world?"
>>8141871
v. nice
>>8143759
A real writer can do so without being all cheeky and breaking fundamental rules and justifying it with muh postermodernism.
I wipe my ass on your scarf you virgin hipster.
>>8141893
Plenty on /lit/ still do, it's just there's also a few who keep forcing le epin maymay.
>>8141969
> from a hell more horrible yet than the brimstone land of Christian reckoning
This gave me shivers when I first read Blood Meridian. That whole chapter is devastating.
>>8143772
You say "forcing" as if it isn't already firmly established. Every thread gets derailed with the corncob memes and those who get triggered by them. This has been happening for a while now.
>>8143759
This guy gets it. The massacre happens so quickly that it should effectively be expressed via an extensive sentence where the grotesque details begin to blur.
>>8143769
> a real writer can do so without being all cheeky and breaking fundamental rules
> a real writer can do so without breaking fundamental rules
> implying a real writer shouldn't break fundamental rules
>>8142092
I hope to see a new McCarthy book published while he's still here. I remember reading somewhere that he was planning his next novel to be a long one.
>>8143778
Personally I just wish people would say why they didn't like him rather than shitposting.
But again I guess I'm also not actually that keen on shitposting.
>>8143769
The ' fundamental rules ' were broken with modernism dummy. Also in no way is McCarthy a postmodernist. You sound very stupid
>>8143778
the fact that there's so much resistance to the shitty memes should tell you how little it is being established. People don't like things that aren't funny or clever
>>8143825
Blood Meridian is widely classified and observed as a post-modern piece of literature. I don't care for your dissenting opinion on the matter, you child.
>>8143833
Show me *one* source that does this
>>8143831
you sound like just another mad corncobber t b h
>>8143839
inb4 bitching
>>8143840
I'm not mad anon, I'm just disappointed. Now go to your room and make another cringe review
>>8143853
>cringe
good one lad
>>8143848
>le wikipedia is a source
Millenials are hilarious
>>8143848
>wikipedia
>a source
>>8143869
> people who point out that I am copypasting wikipedia to back up my idiocy are retards
arguing with you is a waste of my time. So long, clown
>>8143881
>he
>not (You)
transparent
>>8143879
Kek, you retard. If you were having a real argument with me you would have pointed out why wikipedia is disreputable and not just parrot the memes that your grade 10 teacher told you yesterday. By all official accounts, it's reliable in the large sense. You're just buttdevestated about being wrong.
Not that I have to worry, since apparently you're so secure with your opinion that you've felt the need to abandon he argument. I'm sure you'll stick to that.
>>8141855
neurotransmitters
>>8143912
yeah good 'real argument' you faggot woman posting something that just says 'postmodern novel' fucking congratulations, get this guy into the whitehouse
>>8143932
If you're going to break your promise of fleeing like a little bitch you can at least show yourself the respect of not appearing to do so out of pure, blind buttrage.
>>8143937
i'm the other person who criticised your use of wikipedia you blind faggot
>>8141855
O the stars did fall.
>>8143943
No trip, it didn't happen.
>>8143928
>please spoonfeed me
lol it looks like those awful t-shirts with twenty fonts
>>8141893
It's just this one bald faggot doing the slander
>>8141871
I chuckled
>>8141855
What's the best Corncob?
>>8145493
My favorite is The Crossing, Blood Meridian is considered the best by literary critics, and as far as I can tell, /lit/ likes Suttree the best
10/10
>>8141893
>I went straight through it and was exhilarated. I said, “My God! This reminds me of Thomas Pynchon at his best, or Nathanael West.” It was the greatest single book since Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying.
>But to have written even one book so authentically strong and allusive, and capable of the perpetual reverberation that Blood Meridian possesses more than justifies him. I don’t think McCarthy will ever match it, but still… He has attained genius with that book.
> It culminates all the aesthetic potential that Western fiction can have. I don’t think that anyone can hope to improve on it, that it essentially closes out the tradition.
>>8141855
>What comes to your mind when you see this image?
Insufferable name-dropping faggot know-nothing /lit/ poseur-boys showing off their nonexistent intelligence and taste
Straight-up chaser faglords, I hate you all
>>8145544
b-b-but he's a c-corncob! It's not f-fair
