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Which Cormac McCarthy should we read? This poll is closed. |
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| All the Pretty Horses |
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7 | 26.92% |
| Suttree |
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10 | 38.46% |
| No Country for Old Men |
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4 | 15.38% |
| Blood Meridian (again) |
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1 | 3.85% |
| Other (specify in thread) |
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1 | 3.85% |
| Checkbox |
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3 | 11.54% |
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Poll forthcoming...
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Jun 30, 2023 15:50
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Wth I added it where is it e. apparently you can't see polls in the Awful app. All seems good Bilirubin fucked around with this message at 22:37 on Jun 30, 2023 |
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Jun 30, 2023 21:39
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Blood Meridian or Suttree or The Passenger/Stella Maris
Help a goon out! Lots of books - horror, nonfiction, classics and more for sale.
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Jul 1, 2023 02:46
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will run the poll for a few more days
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Jul 1, 2023 21:28
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The Passenger/Stella Maris
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Jul 2, 2023 04:17
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To help decide: All The Pretty Horses quote:The novel tells of John Grady Cole, a 16-year-old who grew up on his grandfather's ranch in San Angelo, Texas. The boy was raised for a significant part of his youth, perhaps 15 of his 16 years, by a family of Mexican origin who worked on the ranch; he is a native speaker of Spanish and English.[2] The story begins in 1949, soon after the death of John Grady's grandfather when Grady learns the ranch is to be sold. Faced with the prospect of moving into town, Grady instead chooses to leave and persuades his best friend, Lacey Rawlins, to accompany him. Traveling by horseback, the pair travel southward into Mexico, where they hope to find work as cowboys. This is evidentially one of the more gentle of McCarty's books, and the start of a trilogy iirc. Suttree quote:Suttree is a semi-autobiographical novel by Cormac McCarthy, published in 1979. Set in Knoxville, Tennessee, over a four-year period starting in 1950, the novel follows Cornelius Suttree, who has repudiated his former life of privilege to become a fisherman on the Tennessee River. The novel has a fragmented structure with many flashbacks and shifts in grammatical person. Suttree has been compared[1] to James Joyce's Ulysses and John Steinbeck's Cannery Row, and called "a doomed Huckleberry Finn"[2] by Jerome Charyn. Suttree was written over a 20-year span[3] and is a departure from McCarthy's previous novels, being much longer, more sprawling in structure, and perhaps his most humorous. McCarthy does Faulkner Blood Meridian quote:Blood Meridian; or, The Evening Redness in the West is a 1985 epic historical novel by American author Cormac McCarthy, classified under the Western, or sometimes the anti-Western, genre.[1][2] McCarthy's fifth book, it was published by Random House. And did they mention its violent? Like, really violent. No Country For Old Men quote:No Country for Old Men is a 2005 novel by American author Cormac McCarthy, who had originally written the story as a screenplay.[1] The story occurs in the vicinity of the Mexico–United States border in 1980 and concerns an illegal drug deal gone awry in the Texas desert back country. Owing to the novel's origins as a screenplay, the novel has a simple writing style different from other Cormac McCarthy novels. The book was adapted into a 2007 Coen brothers film of the same name, which won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Also violent. The Passenger/Stella Maris quote:The Passenger is a 2022 novel by the American writer Cormac McCarthy.[1] It was released one month before companion novel Stella Maris. The plot of both The Passenger and Stella Maris follows Bobby and Alicia Western, two siblings whose father developed the atomic bomb. quote:The novel follows Alicia Western, a math prodigy conflicted by her father's contributions to the American development of the atomic bomb.[2] The entire novel is set in 1972 in Black River Falls, Wisconsin, at the titular Stella Maris, "a non-denominational facility and hospice for the care of psychiatric medical patients," as stated on page 3 (the only page that is not written in dialogue). The novel consists of a "series of conversations between Alicia and her psychiatrist, Dr. Cohen, written like a play but with no exposition, stage directions, or dialogue tags. The subjects include mathematics, quantum mechanics, music theory, and obscure philosophy."[4]
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Jul 2, 2023 15:29
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I was gonna be so mad at yall if you picked all the pretty horses. I read every book on this poll in the past year and Horses is fine but Suttree is basically his second greatest masterpiece after Blood Meridian. It's so rich and there's so much more to discuss edit: I legit voted for every option except for Horses Help a goon out! Lots of books - horror, nonfiction, classics and more for sale. escape artist fucked around with this message at 18:11 on Jul 3, 2023 |
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Jul 3, 2023 17:32
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yes it is looking like Suttree is the winner. I will make the changes to the ginormous mega thread. Thanks all!
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Jul 3, 2023 20:17
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