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kind of feel like i;ve come full circle with McCarthy. My first encounter with him was The Road back in 2011; i had seen the ad for the movie and then picked up the book on a whim in the student bookstore at my university. the next day was halloween and i was sick as hell. ended up staying up all night reading it while i sweated out a fever. spent the next few years devouring everything he had written. Now with this book around halloween time again, it feels poignant. Can't wait
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AcidCat posted:Honestly I think The Crossing is my favorite of all his books. same. quotes from that book randomly pop into my head all the time the ending still wrecks me
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Kull the Conqueror posted:Yeah I love The Crossing the most. Blood Meridian's a great book but it doesn't have Billy Pilgrim's heart. my understanding of mccarthy's life atm is that he hangs out at the santa fe institute all day and shoots the poo poo with scientists in between writing, so i dont know that hermit applies
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snoremac posted:Alice's description of a drowning death hosed with me. same. having finished both as of yesterday, i am definitely going to have to go back and re read. its pretty clear to me though that this served as the finale to his career(which, obviously given his age). All the major themes from his prior work are there and synthesized. Before i read these i had happened to read When We Cease to Understand the World, which, besides being an interesting book on its own, really helped a layman like me understand some of the mathematical references
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Milo and POTUS posted:The bat scheme would have worked if he brought them in in much smaller numbers. no, those were excerpts from wittgenstein's journal clean ayers act fucked around with this message at 01:35 on Jun 17, 2023 |
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it went viral on twitter. for some reason i have a hard time imagining mccarthy keeping a journal
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