What am i in for
Kino. That’s fucking amazing cover, first time I’ve seen it.
Fun
Dialogue interspersed between gratuitous descriptions of violence and desert landscapes
So. Many. Desert. Landscapes.
Why does the cover always get worse when they change it?
some bald fuck acts like notorious big’s friend gutter. also, indians.
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The most overrated literary slog this side of the atlantic
bait
The kid pointed to the mountain, hey that looks like a skull. Glanton spat. They rode on and talked about the mountain and raped an indian and rode on.
>Three copies for me, my wife and my wife’s son for the newest Cormac McCarthy, genre-redefining, trope-subverting, atmospheric, dark and eerie, emotionally draining, gut wrenching, aesthetically heavy craft by post-modern auteur with an independent-publisher edge, dread-inducing, suspenseful build up with strong character development and gradual feeling of escalation, bone-chilling slow burn with “say more with less” approach and soul-shaking, blood-curdling, skin-crawling and nerve-wracking exercise in persistently looming dread where tension and anxiety permeates every page as the novel reaches its nail-biting, jaw-clenching and paranoia-inducing final climax, free of any cheap archetypes, cartoonish tropes or infantile fan service western literature, please.
This.
>Glenton and the Judge actually existed
Bros...
Judge Holden wasn't actually supernatural. He was just a high IQ grifter that managed to trick a bunch of dumbfuck bandits into thinking he's the anti-Christ on Earth by worming his way into their group and speaking cleverly and showing them magic tricks.
>Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment
What's the difference?
Same mechanism that was at work with Fauci and Covid or climate change or Science more generally. We worship our new gods and are grifted along the way.
Satan archetypes exist in men more than any explicit divine affair that we care to admit.
I'd agree with that. Although nature can be downright satanic often.
t. Demiurge
> great literally prose, pulling you in to the world where you can feel the desert sun searing the skin
> “he spat”
>Chud Meridian
desd
Satan and divinity does not exist. The judge is a man and nothing more. That's what makes it frightening.
Heart of Darkness, but for yanks
Read Plato.
Quiet, pseud.
>no no no see he actually knows EVERYTHING because he has a lot of stories to tell me!!!
t. useless bum riding along glanton's crew who will probably die in a injun raid within the next few months
Reminds me of that part of the book where Tobin was gushing over Holden saying he learned "Dutch from a Dutchman", as if he must be referring to a singular encounter with a lone Dutchman.
The concept actually sounds really cool, I really want to like it but I'm seemingly incapable of withstanding the slog. The way he writes is just ridiculous to me, does it get more bearable the further you go?
This seems more your speed
I read this when I was like 20 and hardly remember anything at all.
well there’s this one guy who spat and ate his tortilla and drank his coffee and spat and scalped an indian and then he spat again
kino desu
>slog
book can be finished in like 2 days, one of the criticisms about it that makes the least sense
The style takes inspiration from the KJV bible and Moby Dick. If you are unfamiliar with either it might be a difficult read (if you’re a brainlet)
McCarthy has a dark and dry voice that fit really well with the story. Some scenes are very vivid. The story meanders but it builds slowly and if you pay attention McCarthy juxtaposes similar events back to back to reinforce his point a few times.
>2 days worth of descriptions of deserts
Sounds like a dream
If you ever lived in the American south-west you’d find the descriptions actually supremely comfy and kino.
Needs more quips
a short little book on texmex topography and geology
Things pick up when they sell the scalps for the first time. I almost dropped it right before that chapter. Glad I didn’t.
That part was good but it was the Comanche scene in ch5 that hooked me.
An incredible story
They would scalp not rape, did you even read it?
Believeing what your told and not what you see and know
>Men were wading about in the red waters hacking aimlessly at the dead and some lay coupled to the bludgeoned bodies of young women dead or dying on the beach.
And he opened the beans and he looked at the beans and he smelt them too and then he ate a spoonful of the beans and the beans carried the flame for all man unto death do us part and then he stabbed a feral cat in the forehead and they rode ahead.
>he stabbed a feral cat in the forehead
Why'd he do it bros?
Little cunt looked at him funny.
idk, i dropped it after uhh i dont even remember, they were mostly just riding the whole time and killing people, it was pretty boring
I mean most of the novel is the glanton gang dropping any pretense of injun hunting and just going around acting like complete niggers.
Started reading it for the first time yesterday, almost finished. I'm sure a reread would allow me to pick up on more. So far its engaging. The judge seems the most interesting character by far. Has the most to say anyway. The descriptions of the southwest are very long, but tell a lot about the reality of those places. Its a fascinating read, I like it a lot. All the "ands" are very different and sometimes make me slow down and not skim.
Made me lol
>carried the flame for all man unto death do us part
correct. also break out the thesaurus for the interminable desert landscapes.
kek
Yeah it's cringe dude.
>it sounds like da Bible, dat means it's le Ebin!
Probably some of the most Reddit shit ever published. Yea Forums only fellates it because it's male babby's first lit outside of school. Infinite Jest had similar meme status here five or six years ago.
whoa so deep. It's like Bukowski reincarnated, kek. Talk about try-hard masculinity. McCarthy should start up a YouTube redpill channel and teach us how to pick up chicks.
Finished it. Honestly I didnt find the violence that shocking. The one part I was most saddened by was the end when the dancing bear gets shot in the saloon. Generally it sounds realistic except for the Judge crushing a man's head with his hand and shooting a 12 pound cannon from the hip. The rest wasnt too ridiculous and the descriptions not overly vivid imo. To somebody used to Harry Potter I suppose it would seem so. I liked it. I agree with other posters who said if you have lived in the southwest it resonates more with all the landscape description, though at points it gets a bit much.
>NOT THE HECKIN' BIG CHUNKER DANCEY BOY!!!
Yeah poor bear. Was just dancing around with his tongue out. Got shot once and then danced faster. A shame.
The judge was about 7 feet tall and 24 stone (almost 340 pounds). He didn’t crush the idiot’s brother’s head, but he scared him when he grasped it. He never fired the howitzer when the Yumas attacked, only pointed it at them when they entered his tent. Surprised you didn’t mention when he threw a goddamn anvil as an impossible feat of strength instead.