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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 harrowing, post-apocalyptic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that follows a father and son walking through a devastated landscape.
Discussed“So today, we're going to dig in on one of those books, number 13 on the list, The Road by Cormac McCarthy.”
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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 gripping modern Western thriller following a hunter who stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and a relentless, calculating killer named Anton Chigurh.
Discussed“And Cormac McCarthy in one of his novels, I think it's No Country for Old Men, he says that people reach a stage in their life where they've lost so much that they focus on it and they don't see what else is going out the door.”
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The Orchard Keeper
The Orchard Keeper is Cormac McCarthy's debut novel, published in 1965, which explores bleak rural landscapes and complex human relationships in the American South.
Discussed“I picked up Cormac McCarthy's first novel I've been meaning to go back and reread some of his books I haven't read this one before called The Orchard keeper published in 1965”
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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“Dwight you wrote a piece late last year following the publication of the passenger and Stella Maris those two Interlink novels about food in the work of Cormac McCarthy”
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All the Pretty Horses
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy is a celebrated Western novel following a young Texan who crosses the border into Mexico with a companion, encountering hardship, romance, and tragedy.
Discussed“All the Pretty Horses was published by afov and there was a big PR push for All the Pretty Horses and before that no one really knew the name cor M McCarthy”
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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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Outer Dark
Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy is a bleak, atmospheric southern Gothic novel that forms the second book in the acclaimed author's early trilogy.
Discussed“im reading outer dark which is the second of his first three novels and the third that I'm reading on this little jaunt I'm on”
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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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