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Re:Cormac McCarthy's Olivetti Lettera 32 by Baeocystin on Saturday January 28, 2023 @04:31PM (#34562149)
Cormac McCarthy has the dubious distinction in my library of producing the most beautiful English I've ever read in such unrelentingly dismal stories that I don't feel that I have the stomach to read them again, which I admit is a me problem, but still.

I've only read The Road and Blood Meridian, though. Does Suttree follow the same pattern?

Re:Cormac McCarthy's Olivetti Lettera 32 by ycombinete on Saturday January 28, 2023 @04:56PM (#34562391)
All the Pretty Horses isn’t all that bleak. More of a western Bildungsroman.
Re:Cormac McCarthy's Olivetti Lettera 32 by beezlebroxxxxxx on Saturday January 28, 2023 @05:00PM (#34562423)
Not really. Suttree is not exactly a happy story, but it has beautiful prose descriptions of filth and the Tennessee river, great rendering of vernacular language and culture, and some hilarious laugh out loud segments (the watermelon incident, for instance). It's probably the least dismal of his books, tone-wise.
Re:Cormac McCarthy's Olivetti Lettera 32 by giraffe_lady on Saturday January 28, 2023 @05:16PM (#34562580)
They're all sort of heavy and with grim parts but I think the two you already read are the most disturbing by far. There are some parts of his other books as intense as those two but they aren't pervasive.
Re:Cormac McCarthy's Olivetti Lettera 32 by brudgers on Saturday January 28, 2023 @06:30PM (#34563114)
Suttree is semi-autobiographical.

There is less violence and more drinking than his other novels.

It doesn’t really investigate morality in the ways most of his novels do.

It is the last of his early novels set in Appalachia.