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Nick Borodinov's avatar

I love McCarthy but this post is hilarious. Now have a new author I’d like to check out

Albert Cory's avatar

Funny. I'm 3/4 of the way through ATPH. I'm in no great hurry to finish.

I'm not trashing the book. It's OK. The "no untranslated Spanish" made me laugh. Quite often I really CAN'T tell what they said.

Matt Cyr's avatar

I am a fan of punctuation.

Parker Longbaugh's avatar

11. Black turtlenecks...need I say more?

Waylon Graves's avatar

I really enjoyed pretty horses, but all your points check out.

Slater Henatay's avatar

I was gonna get cranky until I saw that you posted it, and believing in the un-death of the author, I am suddenly okay with the post

Frank Kidd's avatar

🔥🔥😂

Juliet Romeo's avatar

Blood Meridian emotional hangover

Eddy Quan's avatar

ok fine you have my attention

Brady Putzke's avatar

Yo I didn’t know you were on here lol. Cormac trolling summoned you from the ether. Good to see ya

Eddy Quan's avatar

That was the most enjoyable slam of my favourite author I’ve ever read. How dare you and good to see you

Wannabe Cowboy Poet's avatar

I’m all about a Pretty Horse and a Cormac fanboy too but I can’t argue with any of these

Parker McCoy's avatar

LOL. I have never read Don Pendleton's work, but he sounds more my speed. I've read a lot of McCarthy but yeah, he's kind of like pulp mixed with Hemingway- the dark, depressed, the universe sucks kind of Hemingway that makes you reach for the shotgun. I like to think stories should be...um, fun? Haha. And Pendleton's work sounds like it is exactly that. I'll check him out. I think I'm done with depressing crap. I mean, hell, what's the point? And I don't care for long descriptions of landscapes and rocks and nature, just sitting there. It's okay to experience but writing about it feels as boring as it sounds. Great post, fellows.

Von's avatar

Alistair MacLean?