Slog - Comments on He Writes Mighty Fine http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/he_writes_mighty_fine So I’ve been reading a lot of Cormac McCarthy lately, in preparation for the upcoming please-god-be-as-awesome-as-it-sounds Coen Bros. adaptation of No Country for Old Men. Anyway, I’ve been kinda running hot-and-cold on his body of work, particularly the instances where you can feel him straining for a grand cosmic metaphor when a simple description of a coyote would do. But then, well, you hit a sentence like the following from Blood Meridian, and everything sort of … realigns:... Copyright 2008 Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:23:13 -0800 Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:20:17 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Mr. Poe Hopefully the movie will be better than the book.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/he_writes_mighty_fine#c821837 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/he_writes_mighty_fine#c821837 Books Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:19:31 -0800 Comment by The Baron It's nice that he got an SF book into Oprahs Book club.

]]> The Baron http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/he_writes_mighty_fine#c821840 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/he_writes_mighty_fine#c821840 Books Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:23:34 -0800 Comment by Gurldoggie I wasn't crazy about that book either, but I love the Coen brothers and Javier Bardem is a wonder. I think this is only his 2nd Hollywood film (with "Before Night Falls" being his first.) Am I right?

Anyhoo, I like the older Cormac McCarthy books much more, when he was still trying to be Wm. Faulkner and before he decided to write for the movies. "Outer Dark" is a terrifying story of love and incest. Like Faulkner vs. Stephen King. "Suttree" is plain gorgeous. Well drawn Southern misfits and high weirdness. You know what he’s got in that sack?

]]> Gurldoggie http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/he_writes_mighty_fine#c821877 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/he_writes_mighty_fine#c821877 Books Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:09:41 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe @3

"I wasn't crazy about that book either, but I love the Coen brothers and Javier Bardem is a wonder."

100% agree, although I didn't finish the book. Sigh. I tried.

"I think this is only his 2nd Hollywood film (with "Before Night Falls" being his first.) Am I right?"

Well I wouldn't consider Before Night Falls a 'Hollywood film', and no. He was in Collateral, playing the dude Cruise sent Foxx to talk too in order to retrieve the lost info on who to kill for the night. He was also in Goya's Ghosts, which was fucking boring as hell.

So technically this is his second 'Hollywood' film. By that I mean it's his second film that will land in at least 3,000 screens.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/he_writes_mighty_fine#c821883 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/he_writes_mighty_fine#c821883 Books Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:21:23 -0800 Comment by Andrew Wright Gurldoggie,

I'm pretty sure its his 4th Hollywood film, actually, if you count his cameo in Collateral (wherein he knocks the everloving hell out a monologue about Santa Claus). Anyway, agreed with you on McCarthy's earlier stuff. I'm already hankering for an Outer Dark reread.

]]> Andrew Wright http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/he_writes_mighty_fine#c821884 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/he_writes_mighty_fine#c821884 Books Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:21:47 -0800 Comment by Frylock "Anybody else need a cigarette?"

Smoking is bad, Meatwad.

]]> Frylock http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/he_writes_mighty_fine#c822005 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/he_writes_mighty_fine#c822005 Books Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:39:02 -0800 Comment by tim the book read like a screen play. I bet you it's going to be a blast.

]]> tim http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/he_writes_mighty_fine#c822026 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/he_writes_mighty_fine#c822026 Books Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:19:52 -0800 Comment by JSB McCarthy's The Road is the most harrowing thing I have read in years. Wonderful and wrenching, it left me in tears. I have not read Blood Meridian, but this quote makes me want to although it also reads a bit like Larry McMurtry at his most self-indulgent, NTTAWWT I suppose. That the Coen Brothers are directing a movie makes me even happier.

]]> JSB http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/he_writes_mighty_fine#c822027 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/he_writes_mighty_fine#c822027 Books Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:20:17 -0800