Re:Cormac McCarthy, Novelist of a Darker America, Is Dead at 89
by DontchaKnowit on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @09:54AM
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Okay but he is a novelist. I didnt sign up for a book full of confusing necrophelia poetry.
Ultimately this is all a matter if taste
Re:Cormac McCarthy, Novelist of a Darker America, Is Dead at 89
by JoeAltmaier on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @12:30PM
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Exactly. Not a matter of an incompetent writer who just won't say things plainly and grammatically.
Re:Cormac McCarthy, Novelist of a Darker America, Is Dead at 89
by DontchaKnowit on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @01:04PM
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Okay sure. I do not have a problem with his skill, but rather his style.
Re:Cormac McCarthy, Novelist of a Darker America, Is Dead at 89
by JoeAltmaier on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @02:47PM
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Tortured to be sure!
Not a fan myself.
That the reader is required to make some effort to un-knot the language is a legitimate tool of the poet. Some are too impatient, used to sound-bytes from a tv personality perhaps, and won't open them selves to something novel or evocative. It has to 'make sense' grammatically and semantically. Poetry is often neither of those.