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re: Cormac McCarthy books are awesome
Posted on 5/20/25 at 11:38 pm to When in Rome
Posted on 5/20/25 at 11:38 pm to When in Rome
I just finished Outer Dark, which I loved. I've read all his books except The Orchard Keeper and Suttree. I'm reading Charles Bukowski's Factotum right now, but I'm thinking about The Orchard Keeper next. The font in my copy of Suttree is a little small for my eyes, so I'm putting off reading it until last.
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Posted on 5/23/25 at 6:07 pm to cfish140
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Not sure if I’m going to read Cities on the Plain or not.
I really liked Cities of the Plain - one of my favorite CM books. Loved Suttree, too.
Posted on 5/23/25 at 6:44 pm to Sharlo
I ended up quitting the crossing with about 100 pages to go. I was just kinda burned out on the western stuff after reading Empire of the Summer Moon, All the Pretty Horses, and The Crossing all in a row. Was ready for a genre switch
Posted on 5/27/25 at 5:54 pm to cfish140
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Read blood meridian last year and didn’t appreciate it until I found myself thinking about it a lot weeks after I had finished it. Its one of those that stuck with me which makes it great
Finished All the Pretty Horses last month and absolutely loved it. However, I’m reading The Crossing now and it’s a slog. I’m about 2/3 done and ready to be done with it. Not sure if I’m going to read Cities on the Plain or not.
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It's a trilogy. Cities is good enough on anyone's spectrum to warrant seeing a trilogy through to the end.
Posted on 5/27/25 at 7:07 pm to deltadummy
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Cities is good enough on anyone's spectrum
Honestly, disagree. I love Cormac, and difficult books. But the idea that Cities of the Plain is for everyone is absurd. People should read what they like. And I say that as someone who has read Cities of the Plain twice, and could possibly manage a third time. But it is absolutely not for everyone.
Posted on 5/27/25 at 7:54 pm to Tigris
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Honestly, disagree. I love Cormac, and difficult books. But the idea that Cities of the Plain is for everyone is absurd. People should read what they like. And I say that as someone who has read Cities of the Plain twice, and could possibly manage a third time. But it is absolutely not for everyone.
Disagree. My admonishment is based on the fact that he/she has already read the first two. It's a trilogy finale, and a Cormac trilogy at that, and should be given the effort by any well-bred respecter of literature.
But to each their own.
Posted on 6/26/25 at 6:00 pm to Tigris
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Cities of the Plain and The Road are both pretty relentlessly grim
Haven’t ready Cities of the Plain yet but while The Road was relentlessly grim it was also beautiful at the same time.
That contradiction is present in all of the McCarthy books I’ve read so far (maybe less so in NCFOM). But it’s also what I think makes him such a great author.
Posted on 6/26/25 at 6:04 pm to deltadummy
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It's a trilogy. Cities is good enough on anyone's spectrum to warrant seeing a trilogy through to the
I know they are a trilogy and I have read Cities yet. But the first 2 are 2 completely separate stories. I read The Crossing first not realizing it was the second book of a trilogy and then ready All the Pretty Horses. I don’t think the story was affected AT ALL by reading the first 2 out of order.
And my understanding is that Cities has characters from the other 2 but is its own story as well.
Posted on 6/26/25 at 8:27 pm to Pikes Peak Tiger
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I know they are a trilogy and I have read Cities yet. But the first 2 are 2 completely separate stories. I read The Crossing first not realizing it was the second book of a trilogy and then ready All the Pretty Horses. I don’t think the story was affected AT ALL by reading the first 2 out of order.
And my understanding is that Cities has characters from the other 2 but is its own story as well.
No, reading the first two out of order doesn't affect anything, but they're good enough to read the finale. Sure, it's its own story, but that story is taken from the first two and echoes many of the themes. I mean, I'm joking a bit by insisting someone should read the finale to the trilogy. This day and age, anyone participating in a forum about books should be applauded simply for maintaining some semblance of appreciation for reading, even if it's the funny pages (but generally, the headlines of the day provide that). But if you've read the first two, why not finish it since it's only one more (esp since it's a Cormac McCarthy story)?
Posted on 6/27/25 at 9:00 am to ecb
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Loved Sutree,
Suttree often gets overlooked. But it may go down as his greatest work.
Posted on 7/2/25 at 12:38 pm to Tiger in Gatorland
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I enjoyed The Road
I read The Road last week and thought it was one of the more depressing books that I've ever read
It did however hold my interest.
Posted on 7/2/25 at 7:46 pm to When in Rome
Great writer, but the stories can be pretty bleak. In the border trilogy his descriptions of landscape are fascinating to me..
Posted on 7/4/25 at 8:56 am to When in Rome
I read Blood Meridian back in the Spring. I loved the setting, characters, detail... but it was like a sentence with lots of adjectives and nouns, but not verbs. I wanted something to happen.
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