Man… :( (Also for transparency, I chose npr illinois bc it has the least intrusive ads and layoutof all sources I found.)
I read Blood Meridian last year, and have honestly never read anything like it before. It’s the most utterly beautiful, most absolutely depraved book I’ve ever read. It’s a masterpiece, and it’s horrific.
Similarly, The Road, which just left me numb when I finished it. Glad I’d read it, but numb.
One hell of a writer. #RIP
One of the best modern american literary writers, he will be missed.
Blood Meridian is my favorite book I’ve ever read, but also one of the most challenging. But I’ve had to read it multiple times (three so far) to fully appreciate it, and I think I need even more to fully get it.
But I can’t get it out of my head. The Judge especially just will not get out of my head.
Writer of my favorite books. I am broke.
“How surely are the dead beyond dead. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.”
Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
To me, he and Camus illuminate the struggle of life. You make your own reason. The struggle is the reason.
Sad day - I told all my co-workers about this.
Blood Meridian blew my socks off. I’ve read most of his other work, looking forward to the next two.
Ugh. Absolutely gutted by this. One of my all time favorite authors. This man’s prose is simply unmatched. An honest to god national treasure. Fuck.
He was a living legend, I’m glad to have read his novels and be at the same timeline. He’s simply an incredible author. My first McCarthy book was The Road and I remember thinking that the prose was so simple yet still so powerful.
The Road haunted me for days. Now that I have offspring I don’t think I can ever read it again.
I read it when the movie came out. I read it in the same night I saw the movie. I’ve never felt as hollow as I did when the credits rolled.
I’ve only read The Road by him, I should read more.
Huh, I didn’t know (or I forgot) that he wrote No Country for Old Men - I loved the Coen brothers film so that might have to jump the queue and get read next.
What other books of his do people recommend?