I loved Blood Meridian Feev. Probably his darkest though. It disturbed me on all sorts of levels.
By the way, there's talk that Daniel Day Louis will be playing the main antagonist in the movie. ;)
Look forward to hearing your thoughts.
Printable View
I loved Blood Meridian Feev. Probably his darkest though. It disturbed me on all sorts of levels.
By the way, there's talk that Daniel Day Louis will be playing the main antagonist in the movie. ;)
Look forward to hearing your thoughts.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...577274572.html
Quote:
WSJ: Does this issue of length apply to books, too? Is a 1,000-page book somehow too much?
CM: For modern readers, yeah. People apparently only read mystery stories of any length. With mysteries, the longer the better and people will read any damn thing. But the indulgent, 800-page books that were written a hundred years ago are just not going to be written anymore and people need to get used to that. If you think you're going to write something like "The Brothers Karamazov" or "Moby-Dick," go ahead. Nobody will read it. I don't care how good it is, or how smart the readers are. Their intentions, their brains are different.
hmmmm...
this humble reader loves a good long read!
I think the guy is greatly mistaken.
I'm in with the others here. Comments like this irritate me - give readers a little credit, would ya? Maybe there are a lot of people who wouldn't even consider a 1,000 page novel, but to flat say "Nobody will read it." is pure ignorance. Perhaps McCarthy was speaking of his own readers? :unsure:
Well I'm a fan of McCarthy. His novels are all short-ish, around 300 pages. But this does sound like a really nearsighted comment. It's unfortunate that it's coming from him.
You summed up my feelings perfectly, Pablo.
Obviously this guy didn't get the idea while in college and doing multiple guess tests that any absolute statement is a bad idea. I mean really, who is he to say "noone will read" any type book? Sounds like he was not thinking when he made these statements.
I love the long novel, and ofcourse this was bad timing for him to say this since SK just came out with a very long one, was this statement in conjunction with the release?
Mcarthy is an excellant writer but it's a shame he has such little faith in his audience
If he wrote something big then I'd certainly read it!
I think he has a point in that a lot of young (and not so young) people nowadays just aren't into reading longer books, or books in general for that matter.
But as others have said, he is wrong to make such an absolute statement. We might be a minority*, but we are a LARGE minority.
It's probably just an exaggeration though.
*And I'm not convinced that's true. I've known quite a few people who read long books.
what Brice and Jean and everyone else said. I've only read No Country for Old Men, and found it to be entertaining, but over the top gory for no real reason. However, I will eventually read all of his books.
Has anyone seen his interview with Oprah? It's on youtube. I think he made a couple of stupid remarks in that interview as well.
Sounds to me like someone's jealous.... :evil:
Going to move this to Dutch Hill.:thumbsup:
this thread will shortly be merged with that thread
oh, don't even get bears or daghains started... it was so annoying...
By the way, Dmitry Bykov - my favorite author of those currently writing in Russian - comes up with another 1,500-page-long novel every two years or so... and they are not mysteries... and I'm not even mentioning I've read every one of them at least three times (because bears may be weird), but only saying that his popularity is steadily growing with people, too, and this in our difficult times...
It would seem the sort of people who feel a thousand page novel is too long are the sort who don't use punctuation properly. I've not read any of his books and his ignorant statement kind of makes me not want to. I generally don't dismiss writers without reading them, but one thing I am certain of is he sure as hell couldn't write The Karamazov Brothers. Perhaps if he tries really hard he can write One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, but even there I have my doubts.