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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

tragabigzanda wrote:

4/5 wrote:I was thinking of reading Cormac McCarthy for the first time. Should I? Where do people recommend starting?

All the Pretty Horses
Blood Meridian
The Road
No Country For Old Men

All four of these are masterful. The first two are much more verbose; the latter two are very sparse. I would rank them in that order as far as the enjoyment I got out of them, but YMMV.

ATPH is his lightest, most "upbeat" (relatively speaking)
Blood Meridian is really dark, but also really fun
The Road is BLEAK
No Country is a ripping good yarn

VinylGuy wrote:

wease wrote:Hoping to finish Bossypants while Papa Wease is in surgery

how is it?

4/5 wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

4/5 wrote:I was thinking of reading Cormac McCarthy for the first time. Should I? Where do people recommend starting?

All the Pretty Horses
Blood Meridian
The Road
No Country For Old Men

All four of these are masterful. The first two are much more verbose; the latter two are very sparse. I would rank them in that order as far as the enjoyment I got out of them, but YMMV.

ATPH is his lightest, most "upbeat" (relatively speaking)
Blood Meridian is really dark, but also really fun
The Road is BLEAK
No Country is a ripping good yarn

Nice. Thanks for the response.

4/5 wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

4/5 wrote:I was thinking of reading Cormac McCarthy for the first time. Should I? Where do people recommend starting?

All the Pretty Horses
Blood Meridian
The Road
No Country For Old Men

All four of these are masterful. The first two are much more verbose; the latter two are very sparse. I would rank them in that order as far as the enjoyment I got out of them, but YMMV.

ATPH is his lightest, most "upbeat" (relatively speaking)
Blood Meridian is really dark, but also really fun
The Road is BLEAK
No Country is a ripping good yarn

Nice. Thanks for the response.

BurtReynolds wrote:

4/5 wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

4/5 wrote:I was thinking of reading Cormac McCarthy for the first time. Should I? Where do people recommend starting?

All the Pretty Horses
Blood Meridian
The Road
No Country For Old Men

All four of these are masterful. The first two are much more verbose; the latter two are very sparse. I would rank them in that order as far as the enjoyment I got out of them, but YMMV.

ATPH is his lightest, most "upbeat" (relatively speaking)
Blood Meridian is really dark, but also really fun
The Road is BLEAK
No Country is a ripping good yarn

Nice. Thanks for the response.

That's a pretty good order. I'm not the biggest fan of No Country, because some of the dialogue is unbearable. But it's fine. The Passenger is a weird one, but I like it. It covers a lot of the area I grew up in, and has the second funniest character in fiction (the first is Harrogate from Suttree).

Spoiler: show

The Thalidomide Kid?

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.