Good cover of the book. I like it as a stand-alone and separate from The Passenger, which for me was Bobby’s book. Cormac let’s Alicia deliver her views in a dense but straightforward manner. For me, both books succeed and deserve a wide audience. Regarding his descriptive passages and poetic prose, I’m returning to his Tennessee novels currently reading Orchard Keeper, next Outer Dark, having read Child of God a couple of months back I’ll skip that and go to a reread of Suttree -for my money his best work, and deserving a place on the top shelf of American Lit. Do you think Cormac has shot his load? I hope not.
@@larrycarr4562 agree that Suttree is his best, although Blood Meridian and The Road (and City of God actually) are all right up there… yeah, I can’t imagine he can’t still write anything to top those at age 90+
Jewishness ... They are iconic characters closely associated to mathematics and the nuclear weapons program. If I were to write a novel with similar characters, I'd be tempted to make them white and Jewish as well.
Off topic...Michael Sugrue looks like an absolute Madman today, but I love his lectures more than anything Krauss has offered. Cormac is old so he kinda went there?
Don't you think that making the Western siblings Jewish (though, 'Western' is about as un-Jewish a name as one could come up with), McCarthy is utilizing the one race which is also a religion, connecting them to an thematic undercurrent of divine intention? Neither Bobby nor Alicia present as particularly religious, though, both speak about Jewishness in turn when it comes to numbers. However, both are somewhat lost or wandering - there's a bit of an exodus from their lives. ruclips.net/video/l70TIU7VicE/видео.html
Thanks for this comment -- yeah, tbh, I don't really know. I know that it can't be merely accidental, especially when you throw Dr. Cohen into the mix. What you said makes me think you're right -- they both seem in-touch with the divine, but unable to process it. I'd love to know if McCarthy, who sounds like he isn't much of a believer himself, thinks about all of this.
There is also a Genesis Adam and Eve implication where Alice wants to marry Bobby and start over again Also, there is a reference to Westermarck, a Finnish anthropologist who is known for his studies of the taboo of incest. I thought maybe the name Westermarck was Americanized into Western. Maybe???
Nice review. I’ve read both novels twice now, and I’m convinced the only reason they were published separately was for commercial reasons - both to sell more books and so Knopf can say they’re publishing “two” new novels. During my rereads, I was constantly having to switch books to go back and read certain passages and compare details between the two, which would’ve been much easier (and made more sense) if they were published as one 600+ page volume divided into two parts (I’d put Stella Maris first, since it makes more sense chronologically in the story). Hopefully they are compiled in future editions.
Thanks for this comment -- I remember reading in about 2018 that McCarthy was nearing finishing this book he'd been working on since the 1980s... and then all the sudden, "There are two!" But yeah, my guess that it was mainly sort of an editorial problem. My sense is that the plot-line with Bobby and the feds (?) never really came to a conclusion... and the Alicia material sort of took over.
Looking good. If i had to guess on the improvement in countenance and disposition i'd guess youve given up pauline gnoticism for the beauty and mercy, and universality of the hebrew bible. If so, keep it up.
@@GodwardPodcast about your looking good? Be strong and of good courage-Moses. take a compliment, dont be all gnostic demi urge defeatist. I'll root for ya'
That tree needs an angel or a star! You will get me to read McCarthy one of these days.
These books were phenomenal. Just phenomenal. If they are the last for McCarthy, they are a worthy capstone to his career.
"The worst possible interviewer imaginable, Lawrence Krauss." Hahaha! I felt the exact same way.
heh, seems to be the consensus going around
Yeh a bit of a pisser, but it did have the effect of probably drawing McCarthy out on a few topics he would probably other avoid comment.
Good cover of the book. I like it as a stand-alone and separate from The Passenger, which for me was Bobby’s book. Cormac let’s Alicia deliver her views in a dense but straightforward manner. For me, both books succeed and deserve a wide audience. Regarding his descriptive passages and poetic prose, I’m returning to his Tennessee novels currently reading Orchard Keeper, next Outer Dark, having read Child of God a couple of months back I’ll skip that and go to a reread of Suttree -for my money his best work, and deserving a place on the top shelf of American Lit. Do you think Cormac has shot his load? I hope not.
@@larrycarr4562 agree that Suttree is his best, although Blood Meridian and The Road (and City of God actually) are all right up there… yeah, I can’t imagine he can’t still write anything to top those at age 90+
Can true poetry transcend language?
Jewishness ... They are iconic characters closely associated to mathematics and the nuclear weapons program. If I were to write a novel with similar characters, I'd be tempted to make them white and Jewish as well.
Off topic...Michael Sugrue looks like an absolute Madman today, but I love his lectures more than anything Krauss has offered.
Cormac is old so he kinda went there?
You really didn't like this one did you?
Like this: I sing the body Incel: ruclips.net/video/CbI79e5iZKs/видео.html
Poetry is where you find it
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Don't you think that making the Western siblings Jewish (though, 'Western' is about as un-Jewish a name as one could come up with), McCarthy is utilizing the one race which is also a religion, connecting them to an thematic undercurrent of divine intention? Neither Bobby nor Alicia present as particularly religious, though, both speak about Jewishness in turn when it comes to numbers. However, both are somewhat lost or wandering - there's a bit of an exodus from their lives. ruclips.net/video/l70TIU7VicE/видео.html
Thanks for this comment -- yeah, tbh, I don't really know. I know that it can't be merely accidental, especially when you throw Dr. Cohen into the mix. What you said makes me think you're right -- they both seem in-touch with the divine, but unable to process it. I'd love to know if McCarthy, who sounds like he isn't much of a believer himself, thinks about all of this.
There is also a Genesis Adam and Eve implication where Alice wants to marry Bobby and start over again
Also, there is a reference to Westermarck, a Finnish anthropologist who is known for his studies of the taboo of incest. I thought maybe the name Westermarck was Americanized into Western. Maybe???
@@WildBillandFriends good help here. I still don’t quite have it sorted but these layers all add something.
There are plenty of Jewish-heritage people with "unJewish" names. Heh.
Nice review. I’ve read both novels twice now, and I’m convinced the only reason they were published separately was for commercial reasons - both to sell more books and so Knopf can say they’re publishing “two” new novels. During my rereads, I was constantly having to switch books to go back and read certain passages and compare details between the two, which would’ve been much easier (and made more sense) if they were published as one 600+ page volume divided into two parts (I’d put Stella Maris first, since it makes more sense chronologically in the story). Hopefully they are compiled in future editions.
Thanks for this comment -- I remember reading in about 2018 that McCarthy was nearing finishing this book he'd been working on since the 1980s... and then all the sudden, "There are two!" But yeah, my guess that it was mainly sort of an editorial problem. My sense is that the plot-line with Bobby and the feds (?) never really came to a conclusion... and the Alicia material sort of took over.
I think Stella Maris second is perfect. And as two volumes? Well ... Who knows. It was probably a stylistic choice.
Looking good. If i had to guess on the improvement in countenance and disposition i'd guess youve given up pauline gnoticism for the beauty and mercy, and universality of the hebrew bible. If so, keep it up.
Hilarious
@@GodwardPodcast about your looking good? Be strong and of good courage-Moses. take a compliment, dont be all gnostic demi urge defeatist. I'll root for ya'