Man… :( (Also for transparency, I chose npr illinois bc it has the least intrusive ads and layoutof all sources I found.)
Sad day - I told all my co-workers about this.
Blood Meridian blew my socks off. I’ve read most of his other work, looking forward to the next two.
I read Blood Meridian last year, and have honestly never read anything like it before. It’s the most utterly beautiful, most absolutely depraved book I’ve ever read. It’s a masterpiece, and it’s horrific.
Similarly, The Road, which just left me numb when I finished it. Glad I’d read it, but numb.
One hell of a writer. #RIP
Writer of my favorite books. I am broke.
“How surely are the dead beyond dead. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.”
Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
To me, he and Camus illuminate the struggle of life. You make your own reason. The struggle is the reason.
He was a living legend, I’m glad to have read his novels and be at the same timeline. He’s simply an incredible author. My first McCarthy book was The Road and I remember thinking that the prose was so simple yet still so powerful.
