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Books by Cormac McCarthy mentioned on podcasts
Cormac McCarthy's novels have received significant attention from podcast hosts and guests. On How I Write, Dean Koontz referenced No Country for Old Men and The Road to illustrate the later, stripped-down evolution of McCarthy's writing style. On Stuff They Don't Want You To Know, the hosts discussed Blood Meridian and its reputation as an unfilmable novel, and Robert Evans humorously joked on Behind the Bastards about executing an adventure reminiscent of the book. Another speaker on The Joe Rogan Experience cited a violent scene from Blood Meridian during a conversation about large knives, and the hosts of Behind the Bastards also reflected on the challenging, complex nature of reading the book. Regarding The Road, Lawrence Wright mentioned on The Joe Rogan Experience that Ridley Scott had him write a script based on the post-apocalyptic story, while Ben Dominic noted on The Ezra Klein Show that the widely known book is a great work to revisit following the author's passing.
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The Road
The Road by Cormac McCarthy is a bleak, post-apocalyptic novel that follows a father and his young son as they walk across a burned America, striving to survive while holding onto their morality.
Discussed“And when he started drifting away from that when he wrote No Country or Furlough Men or The Road and great books on their own but I kind of miss the way he used to write”
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Blood Meridian
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy is a harrowing and visceral historical novel that depicts the extreme violence and bleak reality of the American West through the harrowing journey of a runaway teenager known as the kid.
Discussed“Like blood meridian like this is like in this is Yeah. And so when you're face to face with that and they have 6 foot long arrows”
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No Country for Old Men
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy is a bleak, violent western thriller about a drug deal gone wrong and the relentless hunter pursuing the survivor.
Discussed“And when he started drifting away from that when he wrote No Country or Furlough Men or The Road and great books on their own but I kind of miss the way he used to write”
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The Orchard Keeper
The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy is the author's stark and atmospheric debut novel, set in a remote Tennessee community and noted for its bleak portrayal of rural life and human isolation.
Discussed“Cormac McCarthy, you go to his earlier books like The Worksheet Keeper or Out of God or any of that it's very strange but it's also as strange as it all is it feels utterly real.”
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All the Pretty Horses
All the Pretty Horses is a novel by Cormac McCarthy that follows a young man from Texas who travels down to Mexico with a companion.
Discussed“Plus, that's another guy, which I think there was a parallel, even though we didn't talk about it, is that the first, until All the Pretty Horses, which I think is his sixth novel or his seventh, that people had maybe bought maybe 1,200 books of each novel, so nobody bought his shit.”
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Outer Dark
Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy is a bleak, atmospheric early novel that follows a brother and sister navigating a nightmarish, hauntingly desolate landscape filled with mysterious violence.
Discussed“Cormac McCarthy, you go to his earlier books like The Worksheet Keeper or Out of God or any of that it's very strange but it's also as strange as it all is it feels utterly real.”
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The Passenger
The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy is an intricate, companion-style novel following a salvage diver in New Orleans who navigates grief, mathematics, and shadowy government conspiracies alongside his late sister.
Discussed“the first one is is the great one the comic one it's called the passenger”
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Child of God
Child of God is a dark and disturbing novel by Cormac McCarthy set in the backwoods of Tennessee, following the harrowing descent of a violent and isolated outcast.
Discussed“but anyway the first three novels yeah the orchard keeper outer dark and child of God are relentlessly Bleak”
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Stella Maris
Stella Maris is a philosophical companion novel by Cormac McCarthy that concludes the narrative arc initiated by its predecessor, featuring deep intellectual dialogues in a psychiatric facility.
Discussed“the second one St amiris is a sort of Koda and it kind of plays out”
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Suttree
Discussed“but the four before that the orchard keeper outer dark child of God and sutri Suri I always say Sury but I'm not positive Sury”
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