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the fine sweet edge of his grief was thinning……………white as applhalves………smallmouth water…..there is no greater writer in english alive…..a brilliant and loving tribute…..i will share more on your ig, ….this novel (i take both as 1 book) is THE great reading experience of my 2022 as well…..a beautiful brilliant analysis chris….just beautiful and fitting….thank you, b….shaped in the rim lighting…..
If you view your video analytics, just know that I'm bailing on your video at the 2 min 30 sec mark not because it's bad, but because I haven't read my copies yet but now I'm more enthusiastic to do so than ever. I'll be back to this one in a few weeks. Thanks for your channel!
Damn. Listening to all this, you make me feel like I didn't read them at all.
Guess I'll just have to reread. Well done
I flew through these books when they came out last year. For whatever reason a New Orleans setting always fascinates me. I'm excited to make my way through your video!
In addition to this duo, I've tried other McCarthy novels before and both in tone and concept, it was incomprehensible. I truly believe it is the great "white male barrier" –– only the same audience as the author can afford the greatest lucidity. I say this because I struggled also with books like Fight Club. P.S. My undergrad was in English and I work at a public library, so no, it is not necessarily a cerebral blockage.
I just started a book club in the local library in Lisbon inspired by your passion in reading and sharing your thoughts this genuinely. First session will be happening this coming April, and I'm hoping to do Roland Topor's The Tenant. Sending you love from the Portuguese capital, love your channel more and more each time you upload a new video.
When a person speaks or writes, the person will use a certain structure again and again, and most of the time the person is not even aware that he or she is using that structure repeatedly – for example, using an apostrophe in "would have" but no apostrophe in "can not." The FBI and CIA know this, and this is one way they hunt criminals. When the FBI was hunting the Unabomber, they analyzed his 'manifesto' and compared it to a letter they obtained from a man who had received the letter from his brother, a highly intelligent mathematician-turned-recluse named Ted Kaczynski. Both writings had the same underlying structure, and the FBI knew Ted Kaczynski was the Unabomber.
It’s here!!!! I am so excited!! Thank you, Chris! I’m so looking forward to watching this.
Building a PC later today. Loved the review and worthy of the time put in to it.
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reminds me of the suttree qoute. But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse
great video!
Good find with that number 7. All McCarthy novels have some sort of numerology to them. Blood meridian has number 8, The Crossing has 3, Outer Dark has 2 etc. The Orchard Keeper also puts importance on the number 7 btw.
Secondly, I think TK is Clairvoyant. His rambles are unmediated because he can't seem to separate the events temporally.
P.S. Recommending Robert Walser.
Absolutely my new favorite books, and I can’t stop reading them ❤. I’ve really enjoyed your insights into the book, and I’m itching for someone to discuss the concepts with – I’ll hit you up on IG, maybe we can connect!
I really love these novels because you can tell that at some point when he was younger he filled out the whole mystery whodunnit plot, and then with age realized he didn’t need it. Can’t think of many examples of masterpieces released when the artist is 89 like this. Feels so singular. Almost a century of experience.
Following up to my post: it reminds me of that letter Akira Kurosawa sent to Ingmar Bergman about how you can’t create a true masterpiece until you achieve your second babyhood in your 80s.
I know it's gotten a rather lukewarm response so far, but for me, The Passenger is McCarthy's masterpiece. It can be a little clunky at times in its setup, but it reaches farther than anything else he's written and it sort of encompasses his oeuvre. Stella Maris was really neat, but I liked The Passenger more. As far as I'm concerned, McCarthy went out like a G.
I've been waiting for this video. McCarthy is a rockstar.
Very excited, for your review! Just finished Stella Maris, very good timing. A quote I can't stop thinking about, "The universe never made anything it didn't intend to destroy."
Super excited to watch this, I've been waiting for you to release a video on these books. These were my first McCarthy novels and I couldn't put them down. The conversation between Bobby and Debussy in the latter half of the second chapter had some of the best and most poignant writing I've ever read. I can't wait to read the rest of his work!
Just found your channel after finishing Stella Maris last night and wanting to read and listen to other people's thoughts and reactions. Great video. I really didn't enjoy The Passenger because of the lack of conclusion to any story arc, but I immediately started Stella Maris hoping it would redeem it. Somewhere about halfway through Stella Maris I made the particle entanglement connection and both works just completely opened up for me from there. Together they're really something very special. I look forward to hearing more of your thoughts on other videos.
The last sentence of Stella Maris may be the most beautiful last sentence I’ve ever read.
Regarding the Platonic religious themes, you may enjoy an academic paper called Proclus on Place [topos] as Luminous Vehicle of the Soul by Michael Griffin.
Thanks for the review.
a lot of david foster wallace on that back chair… something coming?
I found the Turing test comment interesting. especially in relation to her psychiatric evaluations and how she had such an understanding that she could aim for a given result /confound the tester.
Hey Chris. I preordered these books and got each of them when they were released. They’ve been sitting on my shelf (like many other unread books) and I kind of decided not to read them any time soon. Then I listened to the first 2 minutes of this video, and now I have to read them! You have made a major contribution to my already high level of book-FOMO 😉. Thanks Chris!
On a more serious note, you are awesome! Jeff.
Excellent analysis of both books, I smiled every time you mentioned that you'd read a passage. I personally found the scientific thoughts and references that feature heavily in SM to challenge the reader – who whilst maybe relatively well read (Shakespeare, Homer, The Bible) has minimal mathematical or physics knowledge and that considering the volume of written work on these subjects, we as enjoyers of novels are wholly ignorant of that World – let alone the World that they attempt to discover.
Literally just finished Stella Maris a few hours ago, timing couldn't be better. So excited to watch this!
That was great. Thanks.
Enjoyed listening to your discussion and glad you enjoyed them so much.
Unfortunately The Passenger didn't really work for me but Stella Maris was a very poignant and moving read. It was a difficult read (emotionally) but I found Stella Maris to be the superior work of fiction.