Frankly I didn't like the ending and I thought the prose was awful.

Are McCarthy's other books better?

>>24540016 (OP)
This was the magnum opus apparently.

>>24540016 (OP)
If you're not into the prose, I doubt you'll like McCarthy full stop
but i would recommend Outer Dark

>>24540016 (OP)
>thought the prose was awful.
lol

>>24540016 (OP)
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>>24540016 (OP)
>and I thought the prose was awful.
I'm sorry for your loss. Anyway, No Country is written in a very minimalist prose style. Maybe you'll like it.

>>24540016 (OP)
Monsters don't like when they are exposed. The book is an exposition about the United States's nature. America is a nation of Mass Murderers, build by a system to create mass murderers.
The book is a mirror and the image in that mirror is the ultimate truth. We're all about to kill each-other again in a new civil war. It's already happening on tv, and no one is giving a shit about it.

>very minimalist prose style

>>24540396
Yeah people who say shit like this sound so fucking edgy and retarded.
They sound like people who drink IPA hazy triple 80 XL GRAPE and say how much more manly it is that they're drinking sour, butter piss beer.

>>24541008
I would like the milk man to deliver my milk, in the morning.
I would like to cum on the milkman's wife's tits.

>>24541053
I would like the milkman to be pimping out his slutwife to the town and we use her as our cum receptacle. She's always leaking milk and always pregnant and nobody knows who the father is and she loves it. The milkman himself appreciates Blood Meridian.

>>24541067
American literature and culture at its finest. Thanks anon.

>>24541067
The milkman reads blood meridian every week to forget his troubled life of a constantly pregnant wife who is the town whore.

this is how judge holden is portrayed in both blood meridian and samuel chamberlain's memoir lol:
https://youtube.com/shorts/uJMelJSwNys

>>24540016 (OP)
If you disliked BM’s ending and you thought the prose was awful, you almost certainly won’t like any Cormac McCarthy books.

Hard to say more than this since you don't say exactly what you dislike about BM.

>>24540396
The guy wasn't a good writer. He had great ideas, characters, and such. Kinda the inverse of Stephen King when I think about.

>>24541252

>great characters
>thinks it was a character-driven novel

This is the closest any user on this site has gotten to admitting they got filtered by a book's wikipedia page. Pat yourself on the back.

>>24541051
>so fucking edgy
What exactly is edgy about it? The book is full of paragraph-long overly descriptive run-on sentences.

>>24540016 (OP)
The prose is indeed bad. If you’ve read actual literature there is no need to bother with the schlock that McCarthy wrote.

>>24541353

>actual literature

give us some recommendations. for some reason the users on /lit/ are terrified to talk about literature.

>>24541361
Sure, but it’s not like I’ll recommend some hidden gems or something.
Faulkner, Joyce, Musil, and Proust are all great. I also enjoy Beckett quite a bit.

>>24541378
Beckett is even more schlocky than Mccarthy. Lemme guess, you're some doomer who thinks his hieractic moping is literature but somehow Mccarthy's hieractic grandness isn't?

>>24541378
>literature
>recommends proust
Kek

>>24540016 (OP)
>Are McCarthy's other books better
read No Country for Old Men and find out

>>24541320
this nigga follows elementary school sentence rules

BM is McCarthy's best book besides maybe Suttree. Those two are tied for first imo and represent his work at peak writing abilities, so if you didn't like BM you probably wont like the rest of his stuff.

Personally he is a top 3 author for me, but I understand why some can't get into him.

>>24541320
lmao you sound like a pussy

>>24540016 (OP)
I agree. I read it because it is regarded so highly and I didn't enjoy any part of it. The prose was overdone in my opinion. No country and the road are better but the road has a bit of the same taste.

>>24542140
Imagine being this filtered

>>24542148
midwits are killing this board

>I didn’t like the ending

The ending was so anticlimactic! And sooo sad. What happened to the kid??? I don’t know! Did he die? So sad. We can’t have such sadness in times like these. If I could rewrite it, it would have been sooo much more different. First off, the ending was too sad. Good guys always win, everyone knows that. So the kid should have rode into town to fight the judge in a big final showdown. All the townspeople should have joined the kid and he comes up to the judge riding on the dancing bear and KILLS him! Then afterwards the spirits of Toadvine and Sproule (bless his stinking leg) come down like Jedi ghosts and congratulate the kid for beating the bad guy. Then he rides on happily ever after to Tatooine. In this alternate ending I imagine Tobin to be an obi-wan kenobi figure in the kid’s life. Tobin wan kenobi

>>24540016 (OP)
"War endures" is all you need to understand.

The Crossing and Border Trilogy in general is far more important than Blood Meridian, which are all far more important than Suttree.

>>24542405

>I tried to save the wolf but then the circus people killed it

Yeah real important. Just kidding no one CARES

>>24542408
Billy killed the wolf, skim reader

>>24542514
>yeah billy killed the wolf for no reason, not like the circus people fucked up the wolf or anything

Love when pseuds expose themselves.

Suttree is far better than Blood Meridian. I don't even know how the latter is more famous.

>>24542140
The Road is pandering trash.

>>24540016 (OP)
The Road is very straightforward and simply in terms of prose.

>>24542535
>semi-autobiographical meandering is less popular
No shit retard

>>24542531
>redditor trying to save face
Lol

>>24542554
Nothing is more Reddit than to focus on the details instead of the larger picture. Anyway blood meridian is the superior book but of course someone like you can’t grasp that.

>>24542577
You fell on your face regardless

>>24542542
it definitively is. it's also kind of a basic bitch story.

>>24540016 (OP)
You are allowed to dislike the ending, but the prose is objectively good whether you like it or not.
For the rest, this is a juvenile novel for men in their early twenties, after 25 you should grow up and start enjoying things like Flaubert and Proust, which are superior in every regard. McCarthy's exaggerated metaphysical musings about life and death falls flat once you become an adult, and should raise the doubt whether he ever managed to become one in his own life or whether he fundamentally remained an angry, immature young man in his 80s - talking about an apocalypse that never came and in which he hoped only so that he could be confirmed in his idea that absolute evil exists somewhere. It's extremely ironic that someone who spent so much time writing about the end of days and the misery of being on earth died old and successful.

>>24542675
And what would these musings be?
>talking about an apocalypse that never came and in which he hoped only so that he could be confirmed in his idea that absolute evil exists somewhere
I swear most of you pseuds are obsessed the idea of evil more than Mccarthy ever was.

>>24542675
> McCarthy's exaggerated metaphysical musings about life and death falls flat once you become an adult, and should raise the doubt
Total opposite. As you grow out of your idealistic teen phase you should realize that man is scum and that nature exists to kill us
We live in a horror show and it is only by the grace of God that I’m not feasting on your bones right now

>>24542673
>muh plot

>>24541320
Also rich to call someone edgy over not liking Blood fucking Meridian

>>24541849
At least he knows basic grammar

>>24541721
This nigga is impressed by cheap stylistic gimmicks

>>24542925
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>>24542939
Stop crying, man

>>24542951
Over what exactly?

>>24542973
Over a book and its dead author

>>24543005
And why would I be doing that?

>>24543021
You are

>>24543023
Why would I be?

>>24540016 (OP)
Something something monsieur

>>24542408
>>24542514
>>24542531
The wolf is Billy's gay penis people, and its death is the death of Billy's ability to fake being straight in an adventure novel when he's reporting this entire narrative on his return to the united states.

>>24543031
Who knows?