Cormac McCarthy passes...
I really have to get out more. Based on title, I assumed this was going to be about a pitching coach who turned us down. No sarcasterisks.
I was thinking he is a pitching coach that told Lemonis no thanks
Just for info, Tommy Lee Jones has the film rights to Blood Meridian....bought it fairly cheap. Now waiting for these literary experts on this forum to ask who he is.I'm literally 79% of the way through Blood Meridian at the moment. Glanton just got split open by the Yumas.
The gauntlet is down... Swing your sword Rosebowl.The title of Greatest Living Writer is up for grabs.
For me it’s blood meridianIf I were going to pick one book to decide if I like his style, what is it?
His style changed a lot. There was the southern stuff (The Orchard Keeper, Outer Dark, Child of God, Suttree, probably put Stonemason here too), then he moved on and wrote Blood Meridian as his first Western. It’s probably his greatest. All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain followed and are good and more readable than Blood Meridian. No Country for Old Men is very different and more of a thriller for most of it. The Road is its own thing. Sunset Limited is its own thing. Passenger and Stella Maris as well.If I were going to pick one book to decide if I like his style, what is it?
Thanks. I've heard of some of those titles, albeit as movies.His style changed a lot. There was the southern stuff (The Orchard Keeper, Outer Dark, Child of God, Suttree, probably put Stonemason here too), then he moved on and wrote Blood Meridian as his first Western. It’s probably his greatest. All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain followed and are good and more readable than Blood Meridian. No Country for Old Men is very different and more of a thriller for most of it. The Road is its own thing. Sunset Limited is its own thing. Passenger and Stella Maris as well.
Depends on what you’re into, but The Road, All the Pretty Horses, and Child of God are all worth reading, even if you hate 2 out of 3. If you like Child of God and All the Pretty Horses, Blood Meridian would be a good one.