i read ✨Cormac McCarthy✨ and he gave me an identity crisis

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  • @AGL23
    @AGL23 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +453

    “No Country For Old Men” sounds like an amazing book. They should make a movie out of it!

    • @valliyarnl
      @valliyarnl  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +53

      Word.

    • @BoatmayneThaUnsinkable
      @BoatmayneThaUnsinkable หลายเดือนก่อน +27

      Boy do I have some exciting news for you

    • @ickerolig
      @ickerolig 17 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

      Best soundtrack in the biz.

    • @crimsonstudios680
      @crimsonstudios680 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      @@ickerolig LMFAO, nice one

    • @Hiklen
      @Hiklen 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@ickerolig Cheeky.

  • @CreepierVonJ
    @CreepierVonJ 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +545

    McCarthy was a whole other level, i love all his books, but blood meridian is in my honest opinion one of the greatest novels of all time, "War was always here.
    Before man was, war waited for him.
    The ultimate trade awaiting it's ultimate practitioner."
    I mean how do you even think of something that good

    • @valliyarnl
      @valliyarnl  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

      !!!!!!

    • @curiousss4960
      @curiousss4960 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

      This is one of those lines you read that just make you jealous that someone could even come up with it.

    • @mnorris790
      @mnorris790 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@yttrxstein4192 I'm so relieved. I thought no one was keeping the gate.

    • @mnorris790
      @mnorris790 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@yttrxstein4192 I did not read this. Unlike Hemingway it was a little long.

    • @mnorris790
      @mnorris790 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@yttrxstein4192 That was better.

  • @AmericanGwyn
    @AmericanGwyn 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +983

    As a professional McCarthy scholar, please allow me to say that I thought this video was terrific. You understand McCarthy better than most academics I’ve known.

    • @valliyarnl
      @valliyarnl  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +104

      Wow that’s very high praise! Thank you 😊 I was just so moved by him, you know? I can’t wait to get to more. Question: I want to be more ready for when I reread Blood Meridian. Commenters have suggested that I read Moby Dick and Paradise Lost. Do you think there’s another book I should read to enhance my reread?
      Also also a subscriber of mine that follows you on Twitter/X says you Tweeted out my video (I don’t have an account there) so I wanted to say thank you it means a lot 🤍

    • @AmericanGwyn
      @AmericanGwyn 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +73

      @@valliyarnl that tweet has over 100 likes and many of my followers are very impressed with you! Moby-Dick is a huge influence on Blood Meridian-no other book comes close.

    • @whiskylogic4605
      @whiskylogic4605 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      i just have to echo this sentiment with more than a thumbs up. absolutely this.

    • @account-gp4sn
      @account-gp4sn 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Way to get more followers bro!!!

    • @reasonmattersmost
      @reasonmattersmost หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I thought this was satire. Are these books considered westerns? That said this is a beautiful review/commentary.

  • @Noyb.265
    @Noyb.265 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +454

    Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian is regarded by many a literature professor as the single greatest novel of the latter half of the 20th century.
    It's prose alone is staggering, biblical in weight, wondrous, bleak and poetic. The ending is absolutely dazzling.
    Melville, Dante & Milton are all primers.

    • @fanstream
      @fanstream 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Concur with your assessment.

    • @Joe-ol5bq
      @Joe-ol5bq 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Gravity's Rainbow has entered the chat

    • @Coraxery
      @Coraxery 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      If you mean it took decades for Blood Meridian to not get shit on by critics and get noticed by academia then I agree

    • @jamescostello2257
      @jamescostello2257 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      “It makes no difference what men think of war. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him… that is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way”.
      Profound and beautiful book

    • @PrussianPushma
      @PrussianPushma 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's kinda gay

  • @steve8654
    @steve8654 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +272

    There should legit be a support group for ppl who have been completely devastated by McCarthy. Welcome to the club.

    • @valliyarnl
      @valliyarnl  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      i agree about the support group. would love to join :)

    • @jays2551
      @jays2551 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      he legit broke my brain for a while. ive wavered between agnostic and atheist for as long as I can remember, but after reading mccarthy i felt like i had a spiritual awakening. not like born again christian, just more like something...undefinable. it was seriously comparable in its effect on me to the first time i ever did acid. like after the trip is over and you look at life in a whole new way that you couldn't even conceptualize before

    • @-InsanelySick-
      @-InsanelySick- 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@jays2551 tiny brain spotted

    • @stellviahohenheim
      @stellviahohenheim หลายเดือนก่อน

      Including the kids

    • @DanielGrigg-d2n
      @DanielGrigg-d2n หลายเดือนก่อน

      This is the best comment I’ve read in an age. Blood Meridian is the only novel I’ve ever read that, as soon as I finished, immediately started again.

  • @allisterpaquette187
    @allisterpaquette187 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +232

    She was gone and the coldness of it was her final gift.

    • @valliyarnl
      @valliyarnl  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

      that was one of the most visceral beautiful passages I've ever read.

    • @goldenageofdinosaurs7192
      @goldenageofdinosaurs7192 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      There are times where I’ll absorb a sentence he wrote & I just sit there, mixed between despondent-that someone can write like that & furious-that someone can write like that. But, above all that is the feeling of awe & thanks- that someone can write like that..

  • @ScottMaurer-g2b
    @ScottMaurer-g2b 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +200

    I like to hear a female perspective on McCarthy. Normally you hear men talk about his writing.
    I first read the Road as a young man, I swallowed it whole in one afternoon after bringing it home from the book store. I have since reread it after becoming a father and the dialogue has intense verisimilitude. When I have serious conversations with my daughter, they are very like that. Children cannot express things with uncertainty or nuance at that age, though they are every bit as capable of grasping difficult concepts, they don't have the vocabulary or experience to express it. So they seek reassurance and guidance in straight forward ways and you have to phrase things in simple terms for them. Ultimately, they are looking for a moral center, a guidance and a path forward that they can tread on their own using your guidance. The conversation you talked about here is very apropos. not only is it that childlike seeking for meaning and definition but it's about doing the very same for others "carrying the fire".

    • @jobs.1518
      @jobs.1518 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      yeah you sound like a pus dude

    • @MarcosElMalo2
      @MarcosElMalo2 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      There’s a good Yale lecture on Blood Meridian by a woman. She links McCarthy to Melville, and the Judge to McCarthy.

    • @benwillcox6032
      @benwillcox6032 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@MarcosElMalo2which is ironic, given that Judge Holden in the book is….the devil. Like, not “a bad person” the devil, like almost literally a stand in for Satan.

    • @ScottMaurer-g2b
      @ScottMaurer-g2b 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@MarcosElMalo2 I'll check it out! Thanks! I assume it's one they offer for free?

  • @improvizor
    @improvizor 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +313

    No Country for Old Men is one of those books where even the movie adaptation is just as good, if not better. The movie is a true work of art.

    • @valliyarnl
      @valliyarnl  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +49

      I'm halfway thru the movie and loving it so far

    • @Vidav99
      @Vidav99 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      NCFOM had perhaps the perfect set up for adaptation to the big screen: McCarthy originally wrote it as a screenplay.

    • @regan.8077
      @regan.8077 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      The movie is definitely better.

    • @Jimbow-sz9kh
      @Jimbow-sz9kh หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Makes me sad cause I know we'll never get a Blood Meridian movie no matter how hard we hope.
      Regardless of your political affiliations... We can all agree that movies (specifically book adaptations) have lost a lot of the grittiness and grime we would have seen in the 70s to 90s... While I still pray to see a Blood Meridian movie, I feel it wouldn't hold up to any of our expectations. Today's movie direction just wouldn't allow for a "proper" retelling of that barbaric story.
      In a strange way, I can't really think of many stand out characters from TV and movies in the past 20 or so years that were both shockingly offensive and relatable sans the cast of The Sopranos TV show (and arthouse/international pieces)

    • @blickluke
      @blickluke หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Anyone else here tried to watch No Country for Old Men with a girlfriend, wife etc?
      It's one of the hardest movies for a gf to sit through and watch in one go, fully paying attention to the movie 😂
      Same with There Will Be Blood

  • @NoahVends
    @NoahVends 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +219

    The Road ruined my life. Amazing book

    • @valliyarnl
      @valliyarnl  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      Same

    • @Fawn-hv7mx
      @Fawn-hv7mx 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      High praise, indeed.

    • @jforozco12
      @jforozco12 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      read it twice, ruined my life too lol.

    • @johnobrien8773
      @johnobrien8773 29 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      I'm not crying... You're crying!

  • @nuworldremix
    @nuworldremix 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +67

    Your enthusiasm for these books is so contagious. Blood Meridian is a gnarly book, yet feels cinematic on the page.

    • @goldenageofdinosaurs7192
      @goldenageofdinosaurs7192 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Cinematic, yet possibly unfilmable at the same time. I feel for the director who undertakes that task🤣

    • @davidiniguez1930
      @davidiniguez1930 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@goldenageofdinosaurs7192there really is no way to make an adaptation. I think a miniseries would be best? But the best part of the book is the ambiguity of the kid and his involvement of the violence throughout the book. The director would have to pick a side and drive it home and do a whole interpretation on that and that alone would be divisive

    • @LocatingGoku
      @LocatingGoku 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@davidiniguez1930 You could definitely make a blood meridian live action adaptation and keep the kid's involvement ambiguous, large scale violence such as what's depicted in the book tends to be very chaotic so at a glance it's often very hard to tell what's going on, you can show the scenes that appear in the book and for these you can treat the kid as one of those background characters that just run and gun or remove him entirely for such scenes where he's not mentioned, nowhere to be seen but definitely around there somewhere maybe or maybe not partaking in the crimes being committed.

  • @San-li9ml
    @San-li9ml 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +50

    The reason No Country For Old Men felt cinematic is because it was originally a screenplay. Cormac decided to turn it into a book, and the adaptation ended up being mostly faithful for that reason.

    • @San-li9ml
      @San-li9ml 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Wait you said that, nvm, just wanted to clarify, did it too early 😅

  • @forloveofthepage2361
    @forloveofthepage2361 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    The mark of a truly great writer is expressing everything needed in very few words.

    • @valliyarnl
      @valliyarnl  หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      THIS

  • @kristoffrable
    @kristoffrable 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +44

    One thing I love about McCarthy's writing, especially in The Road, is that there is rhythm to it. I love to read parts of it out loud.

    • @breeeegs
      @breeeegs 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      "Now come days of begging, days of theft. Days of riding where there rode no soul save he."

  • @mr.moonmouth4404
    @mr.moonmouth4404 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +128

    Yeah, the dude-bro category is bizarre and I think scares off a lot of would be readers. A great writer is a great writer. I’ve seen that category spread beyond the usual DFW or Hemingway to some really head-scratching authors like Ivan Turgenev. I don’t know if there’s a similar derogatory category used to denigrate what are often first rate writers. I get that some of their readers can be insufferable but I think one could say that about any highly regarded author. It’s not like Virginia Woolf readers(which I am) are strangers to pretension. Fun video

    • @valliyarnl
      @valliyarnl  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      thank you! and i agree :)

    • @pipstrem5401
      @pipstrem5401 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      For years i thought so as well, because i‘ve heard and read it several times. Boy was i wrong 😀

    • @concerninghobbits5536
      @concerninghobbits5536 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      I think what happens is dudebros wanting to seem smart start reading highly acclaimed books and then they go and tell everyone how great the book is without understanding it, and those people just get the sense that the book must be a bunch of toxic masculinity and weird dudebro stuff. But the reason they got there in the first place was for being really good.
      Just with any media it's good to be able to sift out the good media and ignore the fans since bad fans can ruin a good piece of media all too often. Find people whose opinions you trust and make your own opinions!

    • @nope5657
      @nope5657 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

      It seems that if men are seen voicing enjoyment of something in any noticeable way - misandry rears its head and people diminish, insult, mischaracterize, and make fun of it and the people who like it.

    • @nope5657
      @nope5657 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@concerninghobbits5536 Why is this assumption its only men?

  • @labcat647
    @labcat647 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +60

    When I finished the last page of The Road, I immediately turned back to the first page and read the book again.

  • @ericsierra-franco7802
    @ericsierra-franco7802 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +52

    Milton's "Paradise Lost" is also a big influence on Blood Meridian.

    • @valliyarnl
      @valliyarnl  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      It’s on the TBR

    • @Jimbo-123
      @Jimbo-123 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I just got a copy of "Paradise Lost" to re-read because I feel like "Blood Meridian" is almost like an inversion of "Paradise Lost"/the book of Genesis.

  • @f-grade
    @f-grade 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

    Glad you loved McCarthy. One note on your interpretation of Blood Meridian concerning apathy: I would even take this a step further and say we're not just apathetic to the violence, we're an accessory to it. As you correctly point out, "The Kid" is the reader's avatar in the Glanton Gang, and as the Kid willingly associates himself with said gang, we're willingly eating up all the delicious -- albeit violent -- prose. McCarthy paints such awe-inspiring imagery and we love every second of it; it's beautiful even when dark and sometimes the most beautiful at its darkest.
    I think this is outright shown with the ending of the book, which isn't nearly as hotly debated as I believe it should be. I've noticed a lot of readers' interpretation is that the Judge somehow assaults The Kid (now The Man) in the outhouse, but I think this is flawed, overly-literal, and exclusionary toward other details McCarthy provides. My reading is that -- by now, at least -- the Judge and the Man are one, and their debate at the bar was a battle in the Man's own soul. The Judge represents the perpetuation of violence now afire in the Man's heart, and in lieu of the expriest Tobin telling him to kill that influence, the Man is ultimately consumed by his own personification of evil.
    Some details that lend to this: throughout the book, children go missing and wind up dead; there's the implication of sexual violation and large hands having strangled them. The Kid is described as having large hands. At the end of the book, the Man is watching the little girl on stage with the bear. The Man tries to find his release with a dwarf prostitute but can't perform. Why a dwarf? I think the implication is clear. The bear is shot and the distraught girl goes missing. The Man argues with "the Judge" but does so looking at him through the mirror behind the bar. He's looking at himself. Finally, the Man goes to the jakes and finds "the Judge" there waiting for him, who embraces him. What did the Man truly find here, the crying girl? And what do the two subsequent men find when they open the door to the jakes? A lot of people seem to think it's the aftermath of the Man's demise. But there are a few things here that don't add up. Firstly, there is a third man mentioned "who was not the judge" standing outside pissing, warning the two men not to go in there. This is the Man himself, pissing outside the jakes, nonchalantly admitting he knows what these men are about to find.
    Secondly -- and back to my original point -- there is only one sort of violence by the end of this book that would still leave us in horror. We have seen all sorts of evil perpetrated throughout this story and have become desensitized to most of it. Not only that, but McCarthy has hardly shied away from painting a bloody picture until now. So why doesn't he show us? Because by leaving us yearning to witness the act in question, we are simultaneously imagining our own acts and therefore have become the perpetrators of them. We are the Man. We are the Judge. “Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.” And whatever exists in this vacuum McCarthy leaves us with, exists only by our creation and our consent.

    • @SenorTb0ne
      @SenorTb0ne หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      That's a hell of an interpretation and I absolutely love it

    • @TitoSilvey
      @TitoSilvey หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I wish I could post gifs on TH-cam so I could post the Orson Welles applauding one because goddamn this is an incredible take

    • @f-grade
      @f-grade หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@TitoSilvey Thanks for reading it!

    • @cicolusnage2349
      @cicolusnage2349 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Wow

  • @WRam-fo2sc
    @WRam-fo2sc 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +291

    I read The Road after it won the Pulitzer Prize
    You did.
    Yes.
    And.
    I loved it.
    Was it difficult to understand.
    Not at all.
    What about the lack of punctuation.
    You get used it.
    You do.
    Yes. And it makes the reading experience more visceral.
    Dad.
    Yes
    Tell me a story.
    In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit ...

    • @valliyarnl
      @valliyarnl  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

      im gonna cry
      this is beautiful

    • @ManSeekingMeaning
      @ManSeekingMeaning 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      Underrated comment. Great imitation of McCarthy’s style.

  • @brianwashines2645
    @brianwashines2645 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    It's funny because "Blood Meridian" was my intro to McCarthy's work and it made me a fan. It had a great meteoric impact on my readership and what I knew I could read.

    • @paulraines9635
      @paulraines9635 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Same, the format is wild and it forces you to focus.

  • @lbsenior
    @lbsenior หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Praised four McCarthy books, the marriage proposals are going to be streaming in.

    • @valliyarnl
      @valliyarnl  หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Haha there’s a line alright lol

  • @highfructosedreams
    @highfructosedreams หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    You should read the rest of the Border Trilogy, especially the Crossing. It's far more emotional and devastating than All the Pretty Horses

    • @marqc.9904
      @marqc.9904 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I think I need to reread The Crossing, because after ATPH I found it meandering. But I've heard plenty of other people speak very highly of it, so it might (certainly) just be me.

  • @tonycooper2270
    @tonycooper2270 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    I remember reading No Country when I was in my teens and really fell in love with his literature. It was such an impactful book. Many years later, one of my creative writing profs said some of my pieces reminded him of McCarthy. I can’t take any credit - his writing left echoes on my subconscious long after I closed the covers of his works. To me, that’s what marks a truly great author.

  • @PaperbackJourneys
    @PaperbackJourneys 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +164

    Oi..: Wera... you starting to get into Westerns? Can I interest you in Lonesome Dove? 🤠

    • @delusional500
      @delusional500 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      Seconded.

    • @valliyarnl
      @valliyarnl  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      perhaps 👀

    • @kylesparks1826
      @kylesparks1826 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

      Lonesome Dove might be the greatest American epic.

    • @FettMaster8
      @FettMaster8 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      If you love epic fantasy, you WILL love Lonesome Dove

    • @nightmarishcompositions4536
      @nightmarishcompositions4536 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Yes! Jon Steinbeck’s westerns are amazing too like Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden.

  • @Rohilla313
    @Rohilla313 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Thanks for the clip Wera. I just finished Blood Meridian a few weeks ago. You've stimulated me to read the rest of them. Just an awesome, awesome writer.
    Your Spanish pronunciation is excellent btw!

  • @RobertMunro-wb6jb
    @RobertMunro-wb6jb 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Cormac McCarthy is one of my favourite writers ! No one does western like him and blood meridian is a hellish masterpiece!!!

  • @KingdomeBleachers
    @KingdomeBleachers 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I stumbled upon your video. I had seen the road movie after I had my first daughter, and I immediately noticed how the story could illustrate the meaning of being a father. I later read the book, and I have spent moments lying alone in deep thoughts, getting emotional about carrying the fire, and thinking about how to raise children that will also carry the fire. It is my burden and most important purpose in life, and McCarthy helped put it to words.
    I also listened to the audio books of The Road and No Country after we bought our first home. Before we moved in, I spent time making repairs and doing things like painting the rooms in the house, mostly by myself. My longest day was 14 hours with only short breaks. Listening to McCarthy gave me focus and the ability to dream as I did my work. Some of my favorite memories in this house.

  • @originoflogos
    @originoflogos 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Now you need to finish the Border Trilogy. The Crossing might be his most important novel next to Blood Meridian. And the philosophical and religious implications in The Crossing are so paramount and devastating that it would require an entire series to explain!
    Great video!

    • @valliyarnl
      @valliyarnl  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      will be finishing it in my next McCarthy video!

    • @johnchristopher3032
      @johnchristopher3032 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@valliyarnl The Crossing is heavy. Take your time.

    • @kellymoses8566
      @kellymoses8566 หลายเดือนก่อน

      God damn is The Crossing depressing.

  • @jacklively5229
    @jacklively5229 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    17:33 Blood Meridian, by its end, left me aggrieved and weary and horrified. Judge Holden is so wicked that even the butchers in the Gang are disgusted by him. There is no romanticized nostalgia for the West, for its nominal chivalry and heroism. The West was shaped by brutality upon brutality; and the brutality has been present in the human heart since our earliest days, before the first sounds were given image and form in primitive glyphs.

  • @josiahkepley
    @josiahkepley 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I had McCarthy recommended to me for the longest time by people who knew what I liked and I kept avoiding him because I thought I'd be let down. I sure was wrong, he's spectacular.
    And The Road truly does exemplify fatherhood, the sacrifice and devotion even in small things, incredibly valuable

    • @valliyarnl
      @valliyarnl  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      "the sacrifice and devotion even in the small things" ... i like how you put that.

  • @fudgeknuckle952
    @fudgeknuckle952 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    The Road was so heavy. I have no family life and seeing the father and child... Sacrifice and love are brutal. But I want it.

  • @Jerald_radanian
    @Jerald_radanian 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

    Wind's howling

    • @valliyarnl
      @valliyarnl  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      Hi Jerald :) pam paraaam pam pam paramm

    • @Jerald_radanian
      @Jerald_radanian 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@valliyarnl funny

    • @3dketchup874
      @3dketchup874 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      🐺

    • @lorisalvarez3238
      @lorisalvarez3238 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Looks like rain

    • @13loodbanex
      @13loodbanex 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Place of power... gotta be.

  • @MarshalLeigh1911
    @MarshalLeigh1911 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    Glad you're a western/McCarthy fan now

    • @valliyarnl
      @valliyarnl  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Me too 🥰

  • @mattkean1128
    @mattkean1128 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    All the Pretty Horses is a great way to start McCarthy and it's a masterpiece in its own right.
    Some westerns I've been wanting to try:
    The Son - Philipp Meyer
    Warlock - Oakley Hall
    Little Big Man - Thomas Berger
    News of the World - Paulette Jiles
    True Grit - Charles Portis
    The Sisters Brothers - Patrick deWitt
    In the Distance - Hernan Diaz
    Days Without End - Sebastian Barry

    • @valliyarnl
      @valliyarnl  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      great list. might take some inspiration :)

    • @shawnlinnehan7349
      @shawnlinnehan7349 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The Son, spectacular. Those Comanche were brutal. I’ve been trying to find Warlock in every used book store I go to.

    • @sweetviolents29
      @sweetviolents29 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      True Grit is solid! Simply perfect escalation all the way through

  • @davidgraham5148
    @davidgraham5148 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    So much fun to hear someone who is able to vocalize ideas, thought and purpose from books. I felt like “wow” I would love to have a an actual face to face round table conversation on subjects like this. So much more enjoyable. I didn’t realize how clueless I am about what is happening in a story…the why of it all. Thank you.

  • @Jimbo-123
    @Jimbo-123 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    That's funny what you said about how "The Road" should be mandatory reading for fathers to be. I bought a copy for my friend a few weeks ago, who's wife is pregnant with twins.

    • @valliyarnl
      @valliyarnl  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I salute u 🫡

    • @Jimbo-123
      @Jimbo-123 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@valliyarnl If I remember correctly, in his Oprah interview, McCarthy talks about the book being about his fears of growing older and having a son later in life

  • @TheRealDoomBot
    @TheRealDoomBot 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I love watching videos of people discovering authors that I’ve admired for years. Seeing your enthusiasm for his books made me giddy.

  • @mr.sellpresents7826
    @mr.sellpresents7826 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    Blood Meridian's Judge...Oh. My. God.

    • @paulraines9635
      @paulraines9635 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Most horrific villain in literature.

    • @jsiasoyco9281
      @jsiasoyco9281 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I never wanna go in bathrooms again

  • @Aaron-zt5ee
    @Aaron-zt5ee 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    “Do not start your McCarthy journey with Blood Meridian”
    … Too late.

  • @esmayrosalyne
    @esmayrosalyne 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Okay so idk if I am ready for another identity crisis but I think you just talked me into trying McCarthy as well and I am here for it. Will probably start with The Road, that seems the most approachable for me right now. Loved this passionate gush, nothing feels better than finding a new fave author!! 🤩

    • @valliyarnl
      @valliyarnl  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yes!

  • @christhewritingjester3164
    @christhewritingjester3164 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I had no idea No Country for Old Men was a McCarthy book. So I've seen two movies based on his work, and I loved both. He's already on my TBR, so it's great to hear this perspective and I can't wait to get to him.

  • @biancastephanie8830
    @biancastephanie8830 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Yesss Cormac McCarthy. Booktok could NEVER. I think you’ll love The Passenger and Stella Maris too ❤

  • @officegossip
    @officegossip หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I shared your same enthusiasm after reading Cormac McCarthy. Every time you finish one of his books, you’re left feeling some type of way and you wonder why and how it happened to you. He is my favorite author.

  • @kaleb9375
    @kaleb9375 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Watching this video just made me purchase all four of these books to read. I've been meaning to read McCarthy for the longest time and watching this video made me want to pull the trigger on that. So thank you! This was a fun watch❤

    • @NattyIce100
      @NattyIce100 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Oh, you're in for a life changing experience. The first time I ever read McCarthy I knew he would forever be my favorite. Be prepared to let your emotions flow.

    • @DarkMuj
      @DarkMuj 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Bet you didn’t read any of the books yet, just kept wasting time on TH-cam

  • @paulmd7747
    @paulmd7747 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The Comanche ambush in Blood Meridian is some of the best writing I've ever read. It is crazy how amazing McCarthy's writing is even when writing utterly horrific material.

  • @saltyandthebeefcracker4863
    @saltyandthebeefcracker4863 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    The Crossing is part of s Trilogy along with All the Pretty Horses.
    It's worth reading for the first part alone.

    • @ethanfleisher1910
      @ethanfleisher1910 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      When he holds the wolfs head in his hands--trying to "hold that which cannot be held" again... Fuck me it devastated me.

    • @ethanfleisher1910
      @ethanfleisher1910 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Blood Meridian and Moby Dick are brother novels. Ahab is an antagonist on the level of Judge Holden, but Ishmael is, hands down, the most magical, humorous, and omniscient narrator of all time imo. I read whenever I feel like spending some time with my boy and Queequeg

  • @eudaemxnia2481
    @eudaemxnia2481 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The movie adaptation of No Country is phenomenal. It's one of the best and most authentic movie adaptations of a book ever.

  • @13loodbanex
    @13loodbanex 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I love how much you've loved your first reads of McCarthy and how much it's been a big surprise for you. Your own initial worries got completely flipped. And now you're doing the defending of his styles.
    Your discussion of The Road encompassed the essence of what I meant before how I think people criticise it wrongfully as being simply bleak, where I see a beautiful hope that is defended and passed from father to son, the flame. Everything you said, you got it. Hey hey if you haven't watched it, there is an incredible film called Children of Men that was inspired by The Road. It twists a bit to highlight motherhood.
    Love the video! You can "ramble" all you like, release the Wera Cut I say!

    • @valliyarnl
      @valliyarnl  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      thank you for the recommendation and yes! i am now DEFENDING his writing style!!!! who saw this coming!? I'll add Children of Men to my to-watch list.
      so glad you liked the video!

  • @nicknaylor9895
    @nicknaylor9895 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    You gotta watch No Country For Old Men. I think you’ll appreciate it more than the book because it truly brings to life that cinematic aspect you talked about. It’s my favorite western movie of all time.

  • @Thecatladybooknook_PennyD
    @Thecatladybooknook_PennyD 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Don't miss out on reading his screenplays for The Stonemason and the Sunset Limited. Also The Gardener's Son. I've read all of McCarthy minus Child of God (content too much for me) and Blood Meridian (will be reading soon. Love love love him. One of my fav authors.

    • @darkoale3299
      @darkoale3299 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Child of God is the only book I've read of his and wondered why anyone would write such a thing.

  • @screw_tape
    @screw_tape 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    been a cormac mccarthy fan for a little while now and its always great to see people become fans. very glad u enjoy his work. great video, keep it up

  • @artvandlay2615
    @artvandlay2615 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Love it. He is my very favorite author. I would read Outer Dark and Suttree next. Both are absolutely redonkulous. Suttree is hands down my all time favorite novel.

  • @Floobie2956
    @Floobie2956 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Your delivery of "Okay." was PER-FECT

  • @connorshivers7274
    @connorshivers7274 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I definitely recommend finishing the Border trilogy that starts with All the Pretty Horses. The Crossing is such a deeply moving, slow-burn tragedy, and Cities of the Plain ties it all together so well.

  • @eibhlinniccolla
    @eibhlinniccolla 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    "He knew only that the boy was his ward and if he was not the word of god god never spoke" is my favorite line in any English language book. I'm so glad you liked McCarthy!

  • @trentoatman2998
    @trentoatman2998 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    For whatever reason the TH-cam algorithm fed me this video. You now have a new subscriber!

  • @seanmcdonald1111
    @seanmcdonald1111 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Blood Meridian was the first McCarthy I read, and really the first non-picture book for me in years. I absolutely loved it. His long metaphorical diatribes about how the low sunlight hits the desert are so compelling. It's almost psychadelic. The Judge has been living rent-free in my head since I read it.

  • @fanstream
    @fanstream 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Welcome to the Cormac McCarthy Club.
    Brilliant Cormac, one of the greatest writers over the last 100 years.
    Stellar analysis, and that Stetson hat with the ribbon accentuates your creative and adventurous nature.
    And I concur every new dad should be given a copy of "The Road" before accompanying his wife and newborn from the hospital to the casa. Especially now, with wars, extreme climate events, lethal maladies, and bad characters conjuring horrific possibilities with AI --- dads need to become guides, guardians and shepherds to their children with our world on the brink of crises, disasters and chaos.
    Blood Meridian is his most brutal book, and it evokes the darkest depths of human nature, with Old Testament prose and malevolent characters who embody villainy and cruelty.
    Cormac also did research at the Sante Fe Research and helped edit the work of world class theoretical physicists like Lisa Randle and Lawrence Krauss.
    I won one of Cormac's typewriters in an auction some years ago, and it still works and types well. But I'd never attempt to write a book or play or any artistic work by tapping the late maestro's keys --- this would be blasphemous :)
    Thank you, ma'am, and keep forging on ...

  • @C-OBrien
    @C-OBrien หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love the lack of punctuation, it makes me pay more attention, it makes the long description of the desert in blood meridian more hypnotic and sweeping, the shortness in the road better conveys the desolation of the world, then when he hit with some of the most poetic writing ever it just hits that much harder.

  • @NZAnimeManga
    @NZAnimeManga 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    I definitely recommend that you read the rest of The Border Trilogy (All the Pretty Horses; The Crossing; Cities of the Plain)

    • @valliyarnl
      @valliyarnl  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      I bought them last week! cannot wait

    • @scox0005
      @scox0005 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The Crossing was my favorite!

    • @valliyarnl
      @valliyarnl  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@scox0005 will get to it December hopefully

    • @jameseglavin4
      @jameseglavin4 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Oooooohh I’ve got the trilogy as a single bound volume and gotdayum is it incredible to read as a single piece

  • @paulraines9635
    @paulraines9635 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    His writing format is wild. You'd think it'd be confusing, but it works.

  • @stranger6930
    @stranger6930 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Suttree might be his underrated masterpiece

  • @jilips
    @jilips 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Blood Meridian is my favorite book of all time and your analysis is spot on. It's the only book ever that made me physically ill and impressed at the same time

  • @rafaelsousa2633
    @rafaelsousa2633 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    On the topic of westerns, I have to recommed Lonesome Dove. To date it's the best book I've ever read.
    The premise is simple: two former Texas rangers gather a group and go for a cattle drive up north. Doesn't look like much but it's all about the journey. The character work is brilliant. I specially like how the two main characters, one serious and stoic, the other talkative and carefree, collide with each other and other characters. There are harsh moments, moments of joy and sadness. This was the only book that got me crying.
    It's quite big at 900 pages and the first hundred or so are a bit dull, but from then on it's pedal to the metal. I didn't want it to end but also couldn't stop reading.

    • @valliyarnl
      @valliyarnl  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      definitely on the to read list! want to hold off a little longer tho just so it doesn't ruin all other books for me :)

  • @DavidJWold
    @DavidJWold หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great review Wera! I just now discovered your channel. You sound a lot like me when I first read these books. McCarthy's books usually traumatize me, and I wouldn't trade that trauma for anything. Years after reading, I still get images in my head from them that just floor me.

  • @Would131
    @Would131 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Apathy. Bears who dance, and bears who don't.

  • @Gojeto346
    @Gojeto346 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I’ve never read Cormac McCarthy but honestly just hearing you gush about these books was a fun watch in itself!!!

  • @FunFantasyBooks
    @FunFantasyBooks 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The Road is so good, read recommended by my father - it made me so sad! Loved it.

  • @jackrussell1232
    @jackrussell1232 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Blood Meridian actually was my first Cormac McCarthy book and it made me want to read everything he's ever written. It was nice that everything past that wasn't quite so dark and brutal, but I would have read it even if it was. He's just so damn good.

  • @commietrucker4664
    @commietrucker4664 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The Passenger and Stella Maris are also very good. His last works before he passed.

  • @clayearley7330
    @clayearley7330 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Oh shit, this is awesome! I love the how book report vibes this is. It’s one of my favorite type of vids. I’m in!

    • @valliyarnl
      @valliyarnl  13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Thank you!!

  • @CaitNightz
    @CaitNightz 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I love your videos, and as a mexican, I would love to see you reviewing latin american literature, especially Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo. It's weird and a short book, but I think it's totally worth your time

    • @brandonday2494
      @brandonday2494 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yes! Pedro Paramo and the Burning Plain collection are both outstanding. Great to see Juan Rulfo mentioned.

  • @theonlyconformist
    @theonlyconformist หลายเดือนก่อน

    My goodness! I've read The Road and Blood Meridian and really liked them, but your enthusiasm and passion makes me want to read them again!

  • @christophersessions3375
    @christophersessions3375 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I can't agree more. Life changing author.

  • @N.A.Summur
    @N.A.Summur 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I haven't read anything from McCarthy, but im definitely intrigued now. Your enthusiasm over them has increased that for sure!

  • @excaliburknives3572
    @excaliburknives3572 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    You should read Suttree. It’s also really good.

    • @leprechaungiant1
      @leprechaungiant1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      His best work in my opinion

    • @goldenageofdinosaurs7192
      @goldenageofdinosaurs7192 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I bought it & am planning to read it. I just finished the Border Trilogy & I think I need a break from McCarthy for a book or two before I get to it.

    • @Johngradycole
      @Johngradycole 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah Suttree is super underrated. Great recommendation. Also the rest of the Border Trilogy after all the pretty horses is amazing for anyone who hasn’t read them. The Crossing is one of my favorites of his.

  • @Josh_R2.17
    @Josh_R2.17 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    the passenger and stella maris are pressed to be new favorites based on your taste. don't let anyone tell you theyre not fucking perfect books until you read them yourself

    • @valliyarnl
      @valliyarnl  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      i can't wait!!!

    • @13loodbanex
      @13loodbanex 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They are my personal favorites of McCarthy. There's nothing like them, and I immediately reread them after finishing Stella Maris the first time. They are on my shortlist of favorite books that I reread. I think in time, as they are understood and discussed more, they will get the recognition they deserve. Oppenheimer came out some months after my first read, and it's a chilling pairing (pssst, @valliyarnl if you haven't seen Oppenheimer, I recommend it. Would make a good primer for the era and some of the themes).
      Good to meet ya, Josh. Happy to know another who knows these books' beauty.

  • @locochingadero
    @locochingadero 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That was a pretty inspiring and thoughtful treatment of some serious prose . Clearly some hard work put in and it really shows. I'm eagerly waiting your Mason and Dixon review! Keep it up.

  • @maja.z.pszczola
    @maja.z.pszczola 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I saw the bookshelf. We walked through many bookstores to find the ideal copy. This is going be a looooong ride 🤠🐎

    • @valliyarnl
      @valliyarnl  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      hehehe

  • @RaleighTSakers-r9p
    @RaleighTSakers-r9p 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    pretty close toss up between cormac and vonnegut for favorite authors, but i have to give it to cormac i think. please continue and read everything he's done, he is incredible. his last book before he died made me wonder how it was possible for someone his age to still write some of the stuff he was writing. truly a loss there, and certainly the absolute titan of anything written in english for an enormous period of time

  • @Phatdude1337
    @Phatdude1337 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Suttree is comac McCarthy’s real masterpiece!!!

    • @GreatestAuthorinFlorida
      @GreatestAuthorinFlorida 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The opening couple paragraphs are some of my favorite of everything I’ve ever read. Transcendent.

    • @leprechaungiant1
      @leprechaungiant1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Literally just commented the same thing

    • @careyatchison1348
      @careyatchison1348 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Some of those paragraphs are dense as tropic thickets but if you persevere you will be rewarded.

    • @Phatdude1337
      @Phatdude1337 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@careyatchison1348 I agree it’s dense, but not as dense as “The orchard keeper”, that is hands-down, his hardest work to grapple with.

  • @mileskwon1866
    @mileskwon1866 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I rarely leave a comment (maybe 5 times or less a year), but I enjoyed this video so much, I had to write a token of my appreciation.
    I have seen many entertaining and useful videos on TH-cam, but haven't seen something so "valuable" to my personal interest in a long time. As someone who's been wanting to get into Cormac McCarthy's works but is also overwhelmed, this was a helpful video. Thank you.

  • @thenationaltimelyactionhou9328
    @thenationaltimelyactionhou9328 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I read "Blood Meridian" when I was 13 and it broke me.

    • @nstents7781
      @nstents7781 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      It would have broken any of us at 13. Whatever age someone reads it at, if it didn't hurt you're already broken.

  • @ReallyGoodandKind
    @ReallyGoodandKind 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    If you don’t cry at the final, “are you carrying the fire?” You have no heart.

  • @nightmarishcompositions4536
    @nightmarishcompositions4536 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    McCarthy’s got that Dawg in him… and it takes over your soul when you read his works. All of a sudden you’re a straight talking philosophical lone ranger gazing up at the stars and reflecting on the meaning of the universe, trying to find the light in a sea of crippling darkness.
    But seriously though they’re great

    • @valliyarnl
      @valliyarnl  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      💯

  • @ProfaneUnknown
    @ProfaneUnknown 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The final two books he published shortly before he died in June 2023, The Passenger and Stella Maris, are a duology and the prose is a bit different from his other works, but they really felt like a goodbye when I read them and they are definitely worth reading. Outer Dark and Child of God are two somewhat shorter earlier works of his that are really good. The last line of Outer Dark is fantastic.

  • @regan.8077
    @regan.8077 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    In my mind Blood Meridian, No Country and The Road is a trilogy in that order.
    Excellent video!

  • @beerhamster
    @beerhamster หลายเดือนก่อน

    I just found you on here - the enthusiasm you have is awesome, and I really enjoyed your analysis/description of these texts too. Excellent work!

  • @themangaculture
    @themangaculture 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    If you're interested in western books... I'm telling you that you HAVE to read Lonesome Dove (unless you have already, this us the first of yours videos I've seen). And you are very pretty!

    • @jeffkenamon1806
      @jeffkenamon1806 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      100% agree. It’s a masterpiece. And the series is incredible as well.

    • @themangaculture
      @themangaculture 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@jeffkenamon1806 that's interesting, I haven't continued with the series. But this is my sign to

    • @jeffkenamon1806
      @jeffkenamon1806 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@themangaculture Oops! My bad, should have clarified. I meant the tv series from 1989. I haven’t read any of the other books, but I have watched the tv series adaptations. They’re mostly fine, but the original (book and tv series) is just so damn good.

    • @scox0005
      @scox0005 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@jeffkenamon1806Streets of Laredo is beautiful and nearly as good as Lonesome Dove in my opinion.

    • @jeffkenamon1806
      @jeffkenamon1806 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@scox0005 Nice, good to know!

  • @mackieincsouthsea
    @mackieincsouthsea หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    McCarthy is staggeringly good. Blood Meridian is unbelievable, he's truly a genius writer

  • @gamingrambles
    @gamingrambles 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    0:23 lol, great reference.

    • @valliyarnl
      @valliyarnl  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      😉

  • @jamesbowman9153
    @jamesbowman9153 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I can't believe you convinced me to add westerns to my TBR list... bravo

    • @valliyarnl
      @valliyarnl  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      🥳🥳

    • @jamesbowman9153
      @jamesbowman9153 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@valliyarnl following up. I picked up All the Pretty Horses because of this video. Really digging it so far. Just thought you'd like to know that you're actually making an impact and accomplishing what I'm pretty sure you're trying to accomplish!

    • @valliyarnl
      @valliyarnl  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jamesbowman9153 !!! Oh my gosh that makes me so happy! Thank you for letting me know and do let me know what you think when you finish 😁 and remember please push thru those first 100p it’s laborious for a reason and chapter 2 onwards you’re off the races 🥰

  • @DukeBluedevil70
    @DukeBluedevil70 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Would.

  • @reneescobedo9603
    @reneescobedo9603 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thanks for the video. I’ve been research McCarthy recently and wanting to read Blood Meriden for some time. But now I’m truly inspired to start with All the Pretty Horses

  • @isaiahsanchevy9252
    @isaiahsanchevy9252 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Child of God will leave you empty, and you'll never forget it.

    • @valliyarnl
      @valliyarnl  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It’s on my shelf 👀

    • @shawnlinnehan7349
      @shawnlinnehan7349 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I read Child of God and As I Lay Dying back to back. That was one surreal, southern gothic nightmare.

    • @jordonvh91
      @jordonvh91 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That was my most recent McCarthy read. You are not wrong, so many times I had to reread something to make sure I fully understood WTF I just read

    • @DJCatscratch
      @DJCatscratch 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah child of God is a doozy. Incredibly dark, but it's stuck with me for years

  • @classiclife7204
    @classiclife7204 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    McCarthy was a master before he moved West, with a career stretching back to the 1960s. He was considered the new Faulkner with his Southern novels. "Suttree" and "Child of God" are representative of that time, and brilliant. He was probably America's greatest writer. I put him over all the others, including the Holy Trinity (Hem, Faulk, Fitz). It's weird hearing that he is considered "dude-bro lit" - that's like calling Toni Morrison "chick lit". Anyway, glad you enjoyed them!

  • @mohanbabu1614
    @mohanbabu1614 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Hi Wera

    • @valliyarnl
      @valliyarnl  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Hi!

    • @KALtheHighstorm117
      @KALtheHighstorm117 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That is the greatest emoji I have ever seen!!

  • @onemoreturn
    @onemoreturn 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I love McCarthy, his style is truly unique. He can write some of the most beautiful sentences ever written, and in the next paragraph, he will graphically and in great detail describe acts of unspeakable cruelty and depravity. Really gives you a lot to think about. Yes, we live in a world full of horrors, but there is also goodness and beauty.
    And that last passage from "Blood Meridian" will probably stay in my mind forever. That bizarre danse macabre that we all partake in.

  • @tinctures_
    @tinctures_ หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Not me watching this the day all the fucked up shit about him come out… really good video nonetheless

  • @cactusjorge
    @cactusjorge 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    this is awesome! now i recommend digging deeper than his "greatest hits" like these, even just starting with the rest of the border trilogy. all the pretty horses changed my life when i read it too, but having finished the crossing this year it's perhaps my favorite book and i think his best writing.

  • @carlitosd.9699
    @carlitosd.9699 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    I don’t know of any dude-bros that read McCarthy, and if they did, they’d probably totally misunderstand it and think the Road is really all about how all-protein diets are great for you and how the Judge is like, a stoic, bro. 🤔

    • @valliyarnl
      @valliyarnl  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      So true, bro.

    • @xiiir838
      @xiiir838 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Soybro detected

    • @Iron-Bridge
      @Iron-Bridge 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @carlito:
      Nice one brah😅. You get to be a tiny minded little bigot hoping your
      ' pick me' credentials makes you more appealing to an attractive woman and ignoring your own conceit.
      " Pick me. Pick me. I'm not like those guys" 🤣. You don't have enough experience to stand by your assumptions of what a variety of men will read or be into.

    • @TheGoldenCapstone
      @TheGoldenCapstone 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Insufferable AND a reductionist

    • @MJGianesello
      @MJGianesello 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      This trend of essentially shadow boxing with vague ass demographics that only exist in people's heads or on dark corners of the internet needs to die off