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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 4:40 am Post subject: |
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| swetepete wrote: |
hmmm...sounds like cormac McCarthy. Dude loves his compound words and despises hyphens, I guess...eg. (from 'the road,' opened to three random pages): "eyeholes, roadcut, illformed, billcap, seedpackets," and "backtracked."
His earlier stuff had even more of that. |
Never heard of him, but I'm sure he's a slambrain grabmate. |
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swetepete
Joined: 01 Nov 2006
Location: a limp little burg
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| Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 12:01 pm Post subject: |
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Hmmm. I googled slambrain and grabmate, and came up with basically nothing. Afraid I have to ask you for definitions, jajdude.
Cormac McCarthy, btw, is one of my favorites. He's won big prizes--a National Book Award, and this year, a Pulitzer.
Some critics say...
"I found it hard to believe that anyone could write with such sustained yet apparently effortless intensity, and that a first novel should emerge so fully evolved and perfected, leaving nothing to be desired except more books."
"If his themes are universal, their vehicles are nonetheless often grotesque, ranging from recreational kite-flying with a legless buzzard ("The Orchard Keeper") through incest, infanticide and cannibalism ("Outer Dark") to necrophilia ("Child of God"), sex with watermelons ("Suttree") and the numberless horrors of the extended scalp-hunting expedition that makes up "Blood Meridian."
Weird stuff. A lot of people hate it. One guy calls McCarthy "a banal bore of Faulknerian proportions." Guess he didn't like Faulkner either...
The Coen Brothers have made a movie of McCarthy's 'No Country For Old Men" and are now showing it at Cannes. Could be good! |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 4:14 am Post subject: |
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| Ah sorry didn't realize the "words" had to mean anything, just thought I was being clever. |
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