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This book is a smack in the mouth. Amazing!

Thank you! Most enjoyable!

Hi, I think your enthusiasm and explanation of the central conflict of the book were superb. I'll even forgive you for calling the old man Tarwater (Mason) his great-grandfather. He was his great-uncle. I agree with Deep Owl that there should be spoiler alerts. Though I have misgivings and outrage with characters in the book and O'Connor's premise your explanation was spot on.

Thank you for this video!

Did I just become the 667th subscriber?

Do you have source references you could share? - Lovely video!!

I'm 3/4 way through and what a masterpiece. Just utterly beautiful.

Great review man, you've got a new subscriber.

I'm so sorry to say this, but no way this book is a work of genius as you put it. The irony throughout this novel is so badly cheap, fixated, banal and profane. This book is nothing more than committed literature, and this kind of art is always bad art. And what about the innumerable bad jokes such as: "Goliath would have been a basketball player"? Come on! What is this? Is this great literature? Should this be a novel written by a great writer? The whole book is nothing more than a caricature without any trace of spirituality or of any deeper and profounder meaning. I was so exited to read this book after having read Kazantzakis's true masterpiece "The Last Temptation of Christ", in order to see how these two authors handle their common subject matter; but unfortunately I was so disappointed with this one. No. No way. It was just a waste of time reading this novel and I'm so sorry for that. If you want to read something truly great, which is also greatly written (Saramago's writing style is nothing else than mediocre), then read Kazantzakis. That's an author and a truly great book.

Excellent interview

I very much enjoyed this interchange between the two of you, and I reacted the same way when I first read DBH's writings - they opened new doors of thought and approach that I had been searching for but hadn't found. He has revolutionized my thinking and pointed me to so many marvelous sources of philosophy and theology.

My first Flannery O’Conner reading~ thanks for sharing! So helpful to help me understand

Well done! I just finished the audiobook this evening and I greatly enjoyed it. O'Connor was such a good writer and all of her characters are eccentric and interesting.

I'm no fan of the new atheists, but how is Sam Harris a white supremacist?

“If you want to be the best Crustacean you can be,” killed me.

Beautiful interview. Never did get the right-Christian infatuation with Trump.

What was the title of that book ? "Rowing in the moonlight" or something like that. I can't find it on amazon

John Goodman or Ron Pearlman for The Judge role?...

Hey man, great review. Just one thing, I don't think he wasn't expelled from Portugal or anything quite as dramatic but Parliment refused to back this book for prizes in Europe due to it's anti catholic message. In the words of our secretary of education of the time "as a country with a cultural origin in christian judaism we cannot support this book". That guy was my professor and he descried his political orientation as a mixture of Nazism, Fascism and portuguese Corporativism (the fascist dictatorship over here).

Good job man. Enjoyed the discussion

Technically he was a Portuguese author more than a Spanish author. We could settle for Iberian.

Fucking A man. I have a PhD in German lit (so Kafka) but I suck at visually stuff so never got this story. I wanted to teach it this semester to looked for a visual description You nailed it. Danke schon, James

I saw someone suggest Bill Skarsgard for the judge, and I thought it was an intriguing idea. Woody Harrelson, as mentioned above, is interesting also. Daniel Day Lewis would be a dream, but he seems pretty intent on his retirement. Whatever they choose, I'm eagerly looking forward to it. Great video. Thanks!

Richmond Lattimore's translation of the New Testament is without doubt the best translation.

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Im about ready to start this right now! Great review!

I dont know why but I decided to pick up the majority of his catalog to read for the first time. I had read No Country, The Road and All the Pretty Horses as a teenager but something in me said to read the rest of his work. I read The Crossing, Child of God and I was a day away from finishing Blood Meridian when he passed. Even though he'd probably disagree with me, I'll take it as a sign. Glad I got to honor his art in his final months. Rest easy.

Well that sucks. Just started reading his books too. The road and no country for old men. Both were really cool.

Extremely sad news. Still shocked

rip, one of the greatest of all time.

I just happened to pick up a hardcover edition of 'Cities Of The Plain' this morning in Stillwater and got the news of his passing when I got back home. He was my favorite writer also. Needless to say, I will forever cherish this book. May The Magician Rest In Peace🥹

An exciting discussion marred only by sounding as if DBH is on a subway train rather than in a Japanese garden.

NB: Christopher Hitchens espoused Christianity some time before he died. 🤔

Such an awkward conversation.I honestly feel the interviewer should have been better prepared and try to ask clear, concise questions. This was structured more as an exchange of equals, but it didn't work due to the differences in knowledge and experience.

Great video, I really appreciate it. Very astute, totally agree with your opinion on the violence. it's Cormac Mccarthy's book and he obviously he wants to go ahead. Of all the books that have been filmed only No Country for Old Men stands out but that was a screenplay first. I have thought about this from time to time and I think it should be filmed almost as a horror movie. If the studio wants a blockbuster then it seems impossible. The Road captured the book very well, this is a plus. Woody Harrelson for the the judge?

Didn't St Augustine say that much already in Confessions?

The interviewer provided intelligent and interesting responses and assertions, making this one of the better interviews of Hart, imo. It would have even been better if Hart didn't interrupt him so frequently.

Sam Harris does NOT believe that white skin has more value than other skin colors. Awful libel

Legend

Just finished reading the book a few minutes ago. Absolutely floored - an amazing, thought-provoking novel.

Interesting video, thanks for your efforts. I think there's a mistake at about 13:00 when you say "114,000 BCE". Maybe it should be 1400.

At 4:40 your interpretation is significant to me. Have you seen the recent film The Green Knight? If not I'd recommend it

If the whole thing is a meditation on how violence can redeem, then doesn't the novel center around the Crucifixion?

Good video there

Great, but he was Portuguese!, not Spanish 😂😂

Did the hunter make anyone think of the protagonist from child of God?

I’m waiting for the boxed set in December. I’ve read all of McCarthy except The Orchard Keeper.

Great job! I'm reading it right now, thank you for no spoilers.

A phenomenal cultural event.

Cormac McCarthy's literature means a world to me too.