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Author Cormac McCarthy Dead at 89 (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
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[-] sin_free_for_00_days@lemmy.one 6 points 2 years ago

I've been an avid reader for my life. Hell, way back decades ago, when I went to University, I majored in English Literature. For whatever reason, I've been scared of reading his books. I've just read/heard too many "It was great, I'll never read it again" type reviews. Made me think that reading one (or more) of his works would be similar to watching Graveyard of the Fireflies.

[-] coldredlight@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

Blood Meridian is absolutely incredible. If you love literature it's worth the suffering for sure. The audiobook version is a great experience too, the narrator completely nails it and brings the dense language alive.

[-] luciferrodeo@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

definitely worth the suffering haha. My suggestion to anyone who wants to read his material, specifically the Border Trilogy or Blood Meridian, read them on an eBook reader. Something that you can copy/paste the parts that are written in Spanish. I did a re-read of his work a few years ago this way, and it made his already difficult reading experience much easier being able to Google search the non-English portions

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