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Yeah I love The Crossing the most. Blood Meridian's a great book but it doesn't have Billy Pilgrim's heart. Gonna be honest, I could not finish The Passenger. The italicized sections felt like a lousy Ken Kesey imitation. More broadly I'd say the whole structure and style felt antiquated in an unfortunate way, which I suppose makes sense for a book written by an 89-year-old hermit.
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clean ayers act posted: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 Lets say monastic then
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It is unfilmable. 
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Hell there are plenty of great films that have conjured the poetry of the desert frontier. I think the bigger issue is that it would be harder for the violence to not feel like a ‘have your cake and eat it too’ situation that betrays the story’s intention. Writing about slaughter of Indians and depicting it cinematically are so, so different. The latter feels much more exploitative in a manner that strikes me as antiquated and obsolete. McCarthy is right, somebody could probably pull it off but they’d have to be a world class auteur.
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