Cormac McCarthy
Paperback | Pages: 256 pages Rating: 3.88 | 14218 Users | 1145 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Outer Dark |
| ISBN: | 0330314920 (ISBN13: 9780330314923) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Culla Holme, Rinthy Holme |
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This is my third Cormac McCarthy book. First one was The Road, which is without a doubt one of the best books I ever read, it had a great impact on me. Second was No country for old men, after seeing the movie and discovering this story was also written by McCarthy I felt the need to read the story too to fully grasp its meanings. McCarthy writes dark, incredible, fascinating stories, Outer Dark is no exception. I find his writing and style very powerful, very expressive, beautiful, clear sentences, language and descriptions and the stories are so fascinating and always food for thought, I am a big fan of Cormac McCarthy now. This book leaves you thinking... what does this all mean, and it stays in your mind. I'm sure I will want to keep rereading his books. This man is a great writer. So glad I discovered his talents last year with The Road. Next McCarthy book is on my list to read, but after a break and some other books. This book has to sink in first and first I need some lighter reads before starting the next one. However, looking forward to it already.Particularize Out Of Books Outer Dark
| Title | : | Outer Dark |
| Author | : | Cormac McCarthy |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 256 pages |
| Published | : | August 3rd 2007 by Picador USA (first published 1968) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Horror. Gothic. Southern Gothic. Literature. Novels. Literary Fiction |
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Outer Dark: Cormac McCarthy's Novel of Judgment and Responsibility And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Matthew 25:30, KJVIf there were ever a more unprofitable servant to appear in literature, it would be difficult to find one less so than Culla Holme. Brother to Rinthy, he has perpetrated the social taboo of incest. He fears his sin will be found out. When Rinthy's water breaks, he allows her to suffer through labor, refusingAbsolute pleasure to read. Artistic perfection. The book and the author are classics!Update after second reading. A horrible and violent story, beautifully written. No happy ending.
Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away. Cormac McCarthy, Outer DarkI keep reading Cormac McCarthy to find a single crack of light in his dark, grotesque lyricism. 'Outer Dark' was unconventional and amazing. The story was allegorical without being stiff, it was regional without being provincial. Like most of McCarthy's work it is Biblical in its power and intensity. In 'Outer Dark', McCarthy is throwing chert boulders at the dark center of
An air of ruin permeates this bleak tale of abandonment, desperation, and want. 'Hard people makes hard times.' Culla and Rinthy Holme, brother and sister, were brought up hard. They ain't never had nuthin'. Look for a man who bares 'his orangecolored teeth in a grimace of lecherous idiocy.' Regard the 'dead gray serpentine of the river' as it flows. See the old crone with the elfin face in the woods. She won't abide a hound dog on the place, but has no qualms with a pig rooting around and
McCarthys Outer Dark is a dark tale (as to be expected) of a woman who goes in search of her baby, who has been taken into a forest and left for dead by her brother. Her brother is the father of this baby. What unfolds is a narrative that tracks both her and the brother on their travels searching for what they have lost. For her, its her child. For him, its her (his sister). While the writing is beautiful, lyrical, and sparse (like all of McCarthys writing), the issue I take with this book is
As though Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire focused intently on the concentration of forces at issue in the moment of "the things I do for love." I've read enough McCarthy to understand, I think, that his prose is almost tediously spartan for nine parts and then will bust a sudden swagger of rhetorgasm, as perhaps suggested by prior remarks on Blood Meridian.Some examples (in addition to the quotations in the status updates):Early foreshadowing in "the trees reared like enormous androids provoked
Typical McCarthy novel. Although early in his career, it is still dripping with his trademark dank nihilism and prevalent biblical allegory. This one didnt work for me as much as his next novel, the ghoulishly fascinating Child of God, and isnt as masterful as Blood Meridian or No Country for Old Men. There are plenty of nuanced descriptive passages to flora, which McCarthy utilizes so well to maximum effect. Probably the best part of the novel.Recommended for fans of southern grit-lit in the
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