RIP Cormac McCarthy

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Pour a whiskey for our fellow cowboy tonight.
McCarthy had a gift for Southern Gothic. His influence was huge on my family, it is a sad day at home today.

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Amazing writer, makes me sad people only know him for No Country, hes a good man
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The Road is still my favourite novel, an incredible piece of work.

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I've always drawn connections between Cormac and BoC. They both are very private, rarely grant interviews, have a deep respect for their process and aren't in a hurry to release something until it's perfect, and create art that changes people in profound ways.

My favorite author by far. He will be missed. RIP

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RIP. The Road and Blood Meridian were masterpieces unlike anything else.

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Ahhh no I didn't know that he passed :(

RIP to a fantastic mind. His writing was always amazing. The end passage of The Road was truly beautiful.

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My favorite writer.

His novels and the way he lived his life will always be an inspiration to me. We'll never see a writer like him again.

I'm so incredibly lucky that I bought a paperback copy of Blood Meridian on a complete whim pre-internet without knowing anything about what I was about to get myself into. It totally changed how I thought about literature and made me a more serious reader.

Blood Meridian is hugely popular with millennials now, for reasons that I don't completely understand, but for those who are considering reading McCarthy, I wouldn't start there. I would probably start with Suttree , work your way chronologically forward, then reading his earlier novels.

I could go on. As they did.

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