The Road's last paragraph always gives me chills

@Scottmbradfield

2 ай бұрын

It is good! s

The thing that makes McCarthy's nihilism and misanthropy palatable, is that his prose is so beautiful. This contrast makes the stories interesting and I'm sure it's no accident. Without the beauty in the prose his stories would not be worth reading.

@Scottmbradfield

2 ай бұрын

Thanks, Jan, and welcome to the bathtub! Yeah I can't think of a writer who wrote about more horrible things with such beautiful sentences and paragraphs! s

Also, The Road seemed shorter than his other novels. A beautiful read. My 14-year-old son liked it too.

@Scottmbradfield

2 ай бұрын

Yeah it moves along pretty quickly, tho I don't know if it's actually shorter than Outer Dark, and probably longer than Child of God... s

RIP to a legend. Cormac was truly a great. I don't want to be a downer but Pynchon is also getting up there in age.

@Scottmbradfield

2 ай бұрын

Yeah just be his eighties. Time for a new novel from Pynchon at any rate...

The Road boy what a book. I've enjoyed all Mccarthy's books, this one hmmm...I liked Suttree a lot and Blood Meridian only a little less. No Country For Old Men impressed hell out of me, so much in so few words. The Road seems the best all round, balanced, idk what to say. My favorite. Always surprised how many people say they hated it.j

@Scottmbradfield

2 ай бұрын

Yeah this may be my favorite too, Junga. s

scott, i love this book....and like you, as a father, it broke my heart...when i read it the first time, my own son was 12...and it broke my heart...and i loved it deeply, and i wept over the last 20 pages...and imagined i was walking my own son...btw, i adopted my son as my ex-wife was a single mom when i met her....and i'd read all of McCarthy before this....and i hope you read his last "2 books", which in truth is really 1 magnificent book, all...when you read it, i'll comment later.....thank you for that...btw, i finished your History of L....and it broke my heart...beautiful and deranged and hard to let go....thank you for that book Scott....bb...ps its ok if Dodo dry humbs the mirror, are we so different....hug....and yes, i hope more read all mccarthy.....bb

@bluewordsme2

2 ай бұрын

love to lucky..

@Scottmbradfield

2 ай бұрын

Thanks as always, BB! Thanks for keeping my old book alive! (Can you do the same for me?) s

@bluewordsme2

2 ай бұрын

@@Scottmbradfield well, i;ll be making an IG/FB post about it later in the week....among the best things i can say about the book is that is way ahead of its time (in a sense the language and pov of verbal fantasia of a brilliant mind trapped in a young child's body unable to contain the sloppy world of adults) and richly of the past (it often feels like what made 70s cinema the best)...feels like philip as a young Pynchon....Holden Caufield cant hold a candle, nor the Glass kids, to this precocious and mad young poet .....as for keeping you alive, sadly, i wish, you my wife cotinuallys suggests that is my primary task for myself, for her....the hold the reigns long enough to outwit my own body's performative medical madness...anyway, a brilliant book, on definitely for the tub, but id fear dropping it in the soaking water...a shame language cant keep us alive forever, no matter what young peter hopes....the book needs to be read....let us hope there are more deranged writers and readers like myself who will discover its beauty and ache.....off to read///...stay stay and keep the cool mountain spring water unpixelated for you and Lucky and your family....bb

I absolutely agree with you analysis and also agree it's my favorite of his novels. I still remember reading it for first time when I knew nothing of Mccarthy and just knew it was amazing story and he was a great writer but didn't quite know entirely what to make of it, something strange about it. I remember I had to look up so many new words ('blacktop', I'm from UK) which honestly I liked since it didn't seem at all artificial. I've reread it several times and it always is a great read. I also don't think it's a depressing novel, in fact arguably the opposite. If in the bleakest landscape possible there is still some light, then how is that not a positive story?

@Scottmbradfield

2 ай бұрын

Nice to hear from you, Luke! Onward to The Passenger! s

AT LONG LAST!!!

@Scottmbradfield

2 ай бұрын

We finally made it, Miles! s

Didnt like this one as much as i thought i would. But really enjoyed the dystopian shopping cart for some reason. Reminded me of a japanese comic from the 70s "Lone wolf and Cub".

@Scottmbradfield

2 ай бұрын

No I don't know that one but will keep an eye out... s

Just finished this last week as my first McCarthy! Was very refreshingly understandable after basically only reading Pynchon before. Wouldn’t really recommend the movie though.

@Scottmbradfield

2 ай бұрын

Thanks Les, I've managed to avoid the movie and will probably continue doing so...

never quite get the hyping of this author. He can write, though seems mediocre stuff to me.

Need to reread, did start but distracted by something else?…but 1st Blood Meridian which I put down couldn’t deal with it the 1st time… return home next week and it’s on the nightstand waiting. Take your time in the 🛁 Scott, lots of books to bathe with, but looking forward to some day - 🛁 episodes on The Passenger and Stella Maris.

@Scottmbradfield

2 ай бұрын

Take care Larry! s

@larrycarr4562

2 ай бұрын

Will do Scott …you too, loved Lucy’s painting! Returning home to Cape Cod on Wed. from Cali… another winter escaped👍 but it’s time to start prepping the veggie garden, get the snow peas in the ground, and my seedlings started inside. Just turned 75, have this past month come down with a bad back… but I will not succumb to age, there’s a catbird to watch over my plantings, and come late June my 🐝 friends arrive!