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Suttree By Cormac Mccarthy ( Vintage )
Release Date: 1992-05-05
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By the author of Blood Meridian and All the Pretty Horses, Suttree is the story of Cornelius Suttree, who has forsaken a life of privilege with his prominent family to live in a dilapidated houseboat on the Tennessee River near Knoxville. Remaining on the margins of the outcast community there--a brilliantly imagined collection of eccentrics, criminals, and squatters--he rises above the physical and human squalor with detachment, humor, and dignity.
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 Why can't I write like this?
I wish I had the ability to describe just how stunningly good this book is. The prose approaches perfection. I rarely ascribe true and unrelenting genius to writers, but I will make an exception for Mr. McCarthy. My favorite opening sentence of all time...
"Dear friend now in the dusty clockless hours of the town when the streets lie black and steaming in the wake of the watertrucks and now when the drunk and the homeless have washed up in the lee of walls in alleys or abandoned lots and cats go forth highshouldered and lean in the grim perimeters about, now in these soothblacked brick or cobbled corridors where lightwire shadows make a gothic harp of cellar doors no soul shall walk save you."
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 suttree ( flodarling )
Incomprehensible..Boring, A waste of money..
I you want to spend time trying to unravel what the heck this man is trying to say, then do so..I gave it my best shot and in disgust tossed it into the waste basket.
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 McCarthy, Simplified. ( theophilusofgethsemane )
Suttree is much more simplistic than The Border Trilogy, and No Country for Old Men. Consequently, the language is not as beautiful. McCarthy, in writing Suttree, was only honing his skill towards greatness.
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Brazenly Anti-Plot ( laina666 )
I read this book because it is on the Modern Library's Top 100 List. This is by far the worst novel I've ever read in my life! There is no plot, it is boring, and very very long. It seems like the author couldn't make up his mind what to write about and just randomly threw in different scenes that could've made up a series of completely different stories. It's like reading a book of short stories where each story starts and then abruptly switches to the beginning of something completely different and never gets to the end or climax of any of the stories. Again NO plot!
Not to mention he seems to have a vulgar and disgusting agenda with this book. The characters are dirty, worthless, transients, that I neither feel for, nor want to read about, and their random acts of violence are dispicable. I don't think he writes beautifully in any sense of the word, he is excessive in his descriptive narrative. It's boring and makes no sense. This is the first book I've ever read that I literally wanted to burn when I was through reading it.
The fact that this novel was ever published is surprising to me, let alone the fact that people actually buy it, and like it enough to put it on the Modern Library's list. Personally I disliked every aspect of his writing.
I think that in our day and age something is widely considered "profound" if it makes no sense. Splatters of paint are a "masterpiece" painting. Unrecognizable shapes are a brilliant sculpture. A urinal plucked and hung on the wall becomes a great work of art, this book reminds me of that urinal.
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Great!
This is an amazing book. I finished it in 4 days and started all over again. Not for children though.
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