I just finished Everything is horrible now. It was amazing. So I bought you’re omnibus. Being a disabled veteran and having so much free time I discovered your channel. I’m an avid reader but mostly poetry and literature not to much genre stuff. After watching all the King reviews you do, I dabbled in his stuff and fell in love which in turn made me try out your writing and I’m very very happy I did. Thank you very much very for helping me pass the days with you’re work. I can’t wait to finish this omnibus.

Have you noticed that while I touch my beard when I talk, you tend to touch your mustache... lol

"Let me ask you something. If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?"

Fucking love McCarthy. I just got done reading Blood Meridian & I am quite sure I will probably never read another novel that good again for the rest of my entire life. Absolutely genius.

Just finished this one. I slightly like it more than Blood Meridian, it could be because it has a protagonist that’s very likable and it had a great crime plot. Anton Chigurh is one of the best villains ever in a book

Really looking forward to your Blood Meridian review, whenever that may be. Hey, whenever you do get around to covering it, could you make sure to give your take on the book's epilogue? To me, that's the most puzzling aspect of the whole thing, that one paragraph epilogue. I have been scratching my head ever since I read that book trying to figure out what it means.

Thats one of my top 3 favorite books of all time! And thank you for the review 😀 Read "blindness" from José Saramago! It's really dark, and the style is kinda similar to Mccarthy but more complicated but it's so good!

I don't know what happened in Tuesdays chat. It was buffering for me. I was the only one. Refreshed like a million times. I missed out :(((((

You do such great and detailed reviews. I always enjoy them. Sounds like a interesting book. Enjoy your day E!😀. Oh is that your new set up? That is very nice I like it!

Have not read this one but loved the film done in a modern day old western style. I've read The Road which I loved. I was in the book on the journey with them the writing was so good.

Originally, Hemingway used very little puncuation. Editors pretty much rewrote his stories. He said as a journalist, he liked to keep the flow moving quickly and smoothly, not stop/starting fror lots of commas and periods

Now that Philip Roth is dead, Cormac McCarthy is unarguably the greatest living American writer. I mean, he always was, even while Roth was alive, but now that Roth is gone people can't contend it. I adore No Country for Old Men; it's probably his third greatest work, after Blood Meridian and The Road. And while the movie was doggedly faithful to the book, they did alter the ending slightly, and that alteration changed EVERYTHING about what the book says and what the movie says. In the book, Chigurh offers Carla Jean the coin toss as a potential means of not being killed; she accepts the game and loses. In the movie, she refuses to even play. That's a big difference, because McCarthy is uber pessimistic, saying that even the best of people will jump at any chance to save their own asses. The Coen brothers changed it to where Carla Jean takes a stance of moral superiority to Chigurh, thereby being "better" than him. In the book, she proves by accepting his offer that she really isn't better than him at all. Changed the whole tone of the story, I thought.

Great review E! Definitely one of my favourite books of all time from one of my favourite authors. To be honest, the ending is probably my favourite that I have ever read. The movie is also really good, although I do prefer the book. However the movie does contain Javier Bardem’s haunting performance as the hitman (didn’t know how to spell his name) and tommy lee jones is also amazing in it.

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Hey E I’ve recently found your channel and bought some of your recommendations. Which should I start next after I get done with the institute in your opinion? I got nos4a2, night film and pilo family circus. Thanks and keep up the good work.

OHHH - A Corner view!

I haven't read No Country but it is on my list. I have read Blood Meridian though and really liked it. It did take me a bit to get used to the non quotation marks but it didn't upset me or anything. Like you some parts of that book I didn't get but the Judge is one of the most sinister literary characters ever created in my opinion.

Haven't read it. Couldn't really get into the movie. But the book is always better so maybe i should try that instead. If the story is good enough the lack of punctuation won't bother me.

This review is spot-on, well played. I mentioned in a recent comment on one of your vids that I was reading it, and I still am, it's taking me ages cause I've been waylaid by Joyce Carol Oates' A Book of American Martyrs, which is stunning, and The Institute of course. McCarthy is one of the best. With regards your future Blood Meridian review, you should give Harold Bloom's interview a glance at kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z8mllsaU1JjZnaM.html. He gives a pretty accessible examination of it as a contemporary parable. I'm growing to love your channel E., thanks for sharing all this stuff.

I heard McCarthy is quite poetic in his writing style. But I've only read snippets. I'm glad he doesn't use quotation marks, I got to admit sometimes I lose my flow when some writters over use the "he said" "she said" "she replied" . Im drawn towards all the pretty horses with it being part of s trilogy but probably won't get around to reading it for a long while lol

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