Cormac McCarthy's Olivetti Lettera 32
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Cormac McCarthy's Olivetti Lettera 32
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#3I believe the Olivetti Valentine famously on display at The Met and the MoMA at one point, were actually just retooled/modified Lettera 32s.
In any case, these little machines are brilliant and I’ve owned around 4 of them over the years.
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#4That stupid website paused my music and played sound effects with its intrusive chat bot
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#5It would be way more fun if The Road had been written on a tangerine iBook G3.
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#6Unrelated to his typewriter, I'm currently reading Cormac McCarthy's Suttree, and I'm really enjoying it.
I had previously only associated McCarthy with The Road and Blood Meridian, but I'm glad I gave some of his other work a shot.
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#7Unrelated to his typewriter, I'm currently reading Cormac McCarthy's Suttree , and I'm really enjoying it. I had previously only associated McCarthy with The Road and Blood Meridian , but I'm glad I gave some of his other work a shot.
Cormac McCarthy has the dubious distinction in my library of producing the most beautiful English I've ever read in service of such unrelentingly dismal stories that I don't feel that I have the stomach to read them again. I admit this is a me problem, but still.
I've only read The Road and Blood Meridian, though. Does Suttree follow the same pattern?
[edit] Thank you for the answers!
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#8Unrelated to his typewriter, I'm currently reading Cormac McCarthy's Suttree , and I'm really enjoying it. I had previously only associated McCarthy with The Road and Blood Meridian , but I'm glad I gave some of his other work a shot.
Cormac McCarthy has the dubious distinction in my library of producing the most beautiful English I've ever read in service of such unrelentingly dismal stories that I don't feel that I have the stomach to read them again. I admit this is a me problem, but still. I've only read The Road and Blood Meridian , though. Does Suttree follow the same pattern? [edit] Thank you for the answers!
All the Pretty Horses isn’t all that bleak. More of a western Bildungsroman.
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#9Unrelated to his typewriter, I'm currently reading Cormac McCarthy's Suttree , and I'm really enjoying it. I had previously only associated McCarthy with The Road and Blood Meridian , but I'm glad I gave some of his other work a shot.
Cormac McCarthy has the dubious distinction in my library of producing the most beautiful English I've ever read in service of such unrelentingly dismal stories that I don't feel that I have the stomach to read them again. I admit this is a me problem, but still. I've only read The Road and Blood Meridian , though. Does Suttree follow the same pattern? [edit] Thank you for the answers!
Not really. Suttree is not exactly a happy story, but it has beautiful prose descriptions of filth and the Tennessee river, great rendering of vernacular language and culture, and some hilarious laugh out loud segments (the watermelon incident, for instance). It's probably the least dismal of his books, tone-wise.
Re: Cormac McCarthy's Olivetti Lettera 32
#10Unrelated to his typewriter, I'm currently reading Cormac McCarthy's Suttree , and I'm really enjoying it. I had previously only associated McCarthy with The Road and Blood Meridian , but I'm glad I gave some of his other work a shot.
Cormac McCarthy has the dubious distinction in my library of producing the most beautiful English I've ever read in service of such unrelentingly dismal stories that I don't feel that I have the stomach to read them again. I admit this is a me problem, but still. I've only read The Road and Blood Meridian , though. Does Suttree follow the same pattern? [edit] Thank you for the answers!
They're all sort of heavy and with grim parts but I think the two you already read are the most disturbing by far. There are some parts of his other books as intense as those two but they aren't pervasive.