I read Suttree a couple of months back.

It is a hearty feast of a book and I thank those on this here thread who advised it.

The Road is on my Chrissy List.

His interview with Oprah looks to be coming up next, if the teaser is correct.

Guess I'm not going to bed yet.

The Coen Brothers adapted No Country For Old Men and it comes out in November. It was nominated for a Palme D'Or at Cannes, for whatever that's worth.


Not sure how I feel about its prospects. I really like the Coens, but typically only when they do comedy. There's not a damn thing funny about that book. Maybe they can make it as grim as it needs to be.

Oh, and Tommy Lee Jones will be Ed Bell and Chigurh is played by that guy from Before Night Falls. Javier Bardem.

Ty Webb wrote:The Coen Brothers adapted No Country For Old Men and it comes out in November. It was nominated for a Palme D'Or at Cannes, for whatever that's worth.


Not sure how I feel about its prospects. I really like the Coens, but typically only when they do comedy. There's not a damn thing funny about that book. Maybe they can make it as grim as it needs to be.

Oh, and Tommy Lee Jones will be Ed Bell and Chigurh is played by that guy from Before Night Falls. Javier Bardem.

No Country for Old Men felt more like a screenplay than a novel. Not one of McCarthy's best by a longshot--he probably wrote it so it could be made into a movie. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Indeed.

I think I forgot no country for old men was by Cormac McCarthy about halfway through, and was vaguely surprised to find I wasn't reading James Lee Burke...

I thought No Country For Old Men was stilly very much Cormac McCarthy, with all the regular themeta poured into the form of an action-packed, hard-boiled crime novel. As a fan of both ('mac and detective novels that is), I enjoyed it a great deal (I agree, though, about it reading like a screenplay, what with the shoot-outs and stuff).

I love him like I love few other writers. So very much the exact opposite of the Oprahmerica.

Not crap.

Decent interview. Though I think I'm a little less interested in his "I-don't-want-to-work" ethos than Oprah seemed to be.

Oh my Christ! A poor writer! A poor writer who could not afford many common amenities!

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McCarthy is one of the most aesthetically powerful novelists I've ever encountered. BLOOD MERIDIAN is a horrifying, cruel and utterly entrancing descent into the inferno of man's passionate striving. It's very akin to MOBY DICK, which is probably the single most important archetype for the themes expressed in the work.

He's as important as Melville and Faulkner, and, I believe, will be recognized as such in another fifty years.