What is Cormac McCarthy's best book?

What is Cormac McCarthy's best book?

Go Set A Watchman

>the horizon was very red, a blood meridian if you will. The kid drank a coffee and spat it out into a tortilla and got on his horse and got off his horse again.

McCarthy you fucking hack.

>"The man looked and saw that he and the boy needed to stay off The Road by Cormac McCarthy FEATURED ON OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST but they continued down it."

Wtf...

>"You're right, Ellis. This truly is no country for old men." muttered Ed Tom, "I better get out."

You obviously haven't read any McCarthy, too much punctuation.

I laughed a lot at this, well done, but you've missed the point entirely.

My favorite is Blood Meridian but I've only read that and The Road.

Suttree

great post

why do people make fun of blood meridian

t. mccarthy

I liked All The Pretty Horses. dunno what his best is tho

Either Blood Meridian or Suttree.
Suttree is definitely his funniest, though it does have some beautiful writing as well. I liked all the violence in Blood Meridian and all the archaic grandiloquent language but I can understand how it would annoy others.

Blood Meridian by virtue of having Harold Bloom tell the plebs (us) that it is Cormac's best.

The Road is better than Blood Meridian, but for some reason I liked BM more.

People who make fun of the language haven't really taken the time to appreciate the reason he uses it. He builds stories through the third person objective so you feel like you are observing the evolution of a story. The structure of the prose just washes over you as well. It's not for everyone but I liked it.

Suttree, quite probably.

it's easy to make fun of anything that's highly stylized and intense. this is the pomo future which we have doomed ourselves to

I dont know op

His best book might be just be........
....


Well I'm packing up my game and I'm a head out west
Where real women come equipped with scripts and fake breasts
Find a nest in the hills chill like Flynt
Buy an old drop top find a spot to pimp
And I'm a Kid Rock it up and down your block
With a bottle of scotch and watch lots of crotch
Buy a yacht with a flag sayin' chilling the most
Then rock that bitch up and down the coast
Give a toast to the sun, drink with the stars
Get thrown in the mix and tossed out of bars
Then to Tijuana... I wanna roam
Find Motown and tell them fools to come back home
Start an escort service, for all the right reasons
And set up shop at the top of four seasons
Kid Rock and I'm the real McCoy
And I'm headin' out west sucker...because I wanna be a

Cowboy baby
With the top let back and the sunshine shining
Cowboy baby
West coast chilling with the Boone's Wine
I wanna be a Cowboy baby
Riding at night cause I sleep all day
Cowboy baby
I can smell a pig from a mile away

I bet you'll hear my whistle blowing when my train rolls in
It goes (whistle) like dust in the wind
Stoned pimp, stoned freak, stoned out of my mind
I once was lost, but now I'm just blind
Palm trees and weeds, scabbed knees and rice
Get a map to the stars, find Heidi Fleiss
And if the price is right I'm gonna make my bid boy
And let Cali-for-ny-aye know why they call me

Cowboy baby
With the top let back and the sunshine shining
Cowboy baby
West coast chilling with the Boone's Wine
I wanna be a Cowboy baby
Riding at night cause I sleep all day
Cowboy baby
I can smell a pig from a mile away

Yeah...Kid Rock...you can call me Tex
Rollin sunset woman with a bottle of Becks
Seen a slimy in a vette, rolled down my glass
And said, Yeah this dick fits right in your ass
No kidding, gun slinging, spurs hitting the floor
Call me Hoss, I'm the Boss, with the sauce in the horse
No remorse for the sheriff, in his eye I ain't right
I'm gonna paint his town red, and paint his wife white HUH
Cause chaos, rock like Amadeus
Find West Coast pussy for my Detroit players
Mack like mayors, ball like Lakers
They told us to leave, but bet they can't make us
Why they wanna pick on me...lock me up and snort away my key
I ain't no G, I'm just a regular failure
I ain't straight outta Compton I'm straight out the trailer
Cuss like a sailor...drink like a Mick
My only words of wisdom are just, Radio Edit
I'm flicking my Bic up and down that coast and
Keep on trucking until it falls in the ocean

Cowboy
With the top let back and the sunshine shining
Cowboy
Spend all my time at Hollywood and Vine
Cowboy
Riding at night cause I sleep all day
Cowboy
I can smell a pig from a mile away
Cowboy
With the top let back and the sunshine shining
Cowboy
With the top let back and the sunshine shining
Cowboy

Suttree or Blood Meridian.

Would you classify Blood Meridian as postmodern?

Suttree is too Faulknerian to be his best

The ones with the horses and mexico and shit

Outer Dark desu

Because it's incredibly overrated.