Cormac McCarthy passes.

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From the web: "Cormac McCarthy, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who endured decades of obscurity and poverty before film versions of “All the Pretty Horses,” “No Country for Old Men” and “The Road” brought him a wide readership and financial security, died Tuesday in Santa Fe, N.M. His publisher, Penguin Random House, said his son John McCarthy announced his death from natural causes. He was 89."


The guy sure knew what do do with a pen, typewriter and word processor.
 
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My condolences to his family and I hope he passed peacefully. However, I despise his books. He writes like Oakley Hall meets Clive Barker. I threw No Country across the room when I was done with it, and closed Blood Meridian without finishing it. They were borrowed copies otherwise I would have thrown them away. My kids had to read The Road in AP English class, which I found inappropriate. I read the teacher's speculations about the deeper meanings of various plot devices and I told my kids to ignore it all. The novel is trash. Despair porn.

Anyway, I sorry to hear he has passed and I am sure many people will miss him. God bless and rest in peace, etc.
 
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"They are gone now. Fled, banished in death or exile, lost, undone. Over the land sun and wind still move to burn and sway the trees, the grasses. No avatar, no scion, no vestige of that people remains. On the lips of the strange race that now dwells there their names are myth, legend, dust."

~Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper

Some people like chocolate, some vanilla, but if you are not moved by prose like that, your soul is dead.
 
Never read his books, but some of his movie No Country For Old Men was eerily similar to what's out there.



- Wendell: It's a mess, ain't it, sheriff?
- Ed Tom Bell: If it ain't, it'll do till the mess gets here.”
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WardenRoss said:
Never read his books, but some of his movie No Country For Old Men was eerily similar to what's out there.



- Wendell: It's a mess, ain't it, sheriff?
- Ed Tom Bell: If it ain't, it'll do till the mess gets here.”
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There is an interview that I saw about making that move with the Coen brothers. They said when McCarthy visited the set, they didn't get to talk to him much because he spent all of his time with the armorer talking about guns.
 
I'm a huge McCarthy fan and mourn his passing. I've read and enjoyed everything he wrote. Blood Meridian is my favorite, have re-read it a couple of times. The movie No Country was very close to the book, somewhat surprising for an adaptation. Tommy Lee Jones was superb in the role of sheriff.
 
Inusuit said:
I'm a huge McCarthy fan and mourn his passing. I've read and enjoyed everything he wrote. Blood Meridian is my favorite, have re-read it a couple of times. The movie No Country was very close to the book, somewhat surprising for an adaptation. Tommy Lee Jones was superb in the role of sheriff.
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NCFOM was right on point and it made me a Coen brothers fan. I also really like their remake of True Grit. They were much more faithful to Portis' book than the John Wayne version. (To the JW fanboys out there, hold your water, I love The Duke too!) McCarthy nailed it when he wrote the conversation between Sheriff Bell and his cousin towards the end of the book/film. Anyone who lived out a career in LE has felt that way at one time or another.
 
One time up in Korea I was socializing with some Navy Guys.
One related that they stopped at Subic Bay on their way to SEA.
If it was your first trip, it was required that you eat a Balut.
One guy related that when he did it, the Balut came back up faster than it went down.
That’s the way I relate to his stories.
The only one I can keep down is Pretty Horses.
‘Balut is a fertilized developing egg embryo that is boiled or steamed and eaten from the shell. It is commonly sold as street food in South China and Southeast Asian countries, notably the Philippines, Cambodia and Vietnam. The term comes from the Filipino language.’
 
I have tried real hard to like Old Men.
I usually like the Coen brothers movies and there several actors in it like Barry Corbin I like a lot.
But at the end of the day, it’s a No Go!
There’s a sort of a Old Men Light on YouTube right now.
Lone Star.
 
Truckman said:
That movie never made a lick of sense to me...It seemed incomplete...:confused:...Ben
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It's sort of like those color blindness tests. Some people look at them and just see some colored dots, some see a number in the dots. It's about perspective. Congratulations on your 3000th post, by the way.
 
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