Outer Dark | Cormac Mccarthy | The Inner Darkness of the American Spirit

Outer Dark | Cormac Mccarthy | This guy gives me goosebumps

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Outer Dark

	Outer Dark Cormac Mccarthy Vintage, 1993 - 256 pages average customer review:based on 33 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The Inner Darkness of the American Spirit

This is the third book I've read by Cormac McCarthy. One thing that impresses me about his work is how well he's captured the endemic American inclination to do violence. His characters ring true. They are typical Americans - like those who in our time vote repeatedly for Bush, clamor for war, support the death penalty, are willing to tortures hapless prisoners, and passionately announce that such-and-such a country should be bombed back to the Stone Age. McCarthy has captured America. What a country!

This guy gives me goosebumps

And I feel blessed when i read him and I pity those who have tried and will try to measure up to him. He is the modern Hugo and Baudelaire wrapped into one. His work will do surgery on your sense of literature, and I don't say that lightly!

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A Hammer Blow

I read this book in the first couple days of a road trip across the United Sates. I finished it five days ago and am still stunned by this work's ending. An absolute must read.

Beautiful and terrifying.

Don't be put off by mediocre Matt Damon movie adaptations, Cormac McCarthy is one of America's greatest living authors, and without a doubt the most worthy successor to William Faulkner, his greatest influence. I prefer his earlier Appalachian novels (The Orchard Keeper, Child of God, and this one). Later in his career he moved out west with The Border Trilogy (All The Pretty Horses, Cities of the Plain, and The Crossing). Whichever you prefer, there is no doubt that McCarthy's beautiful, streaming prose masterfully depicts the horrors of the south and the west, and the evil in the hearts of men. In this novel, a young girl is impregnated by her brother, who then attempts to kidnap the baby, taking it out to the woods to dispose of it, all in the first few chapters. What follows are two epic journeys - those of each of the siblings, as they attempt to find the lost child. We follow them through their respective journeys, encountering both the mercy and evil that lie in the heart of man, ending in a bloody and unspeakable climax that will haunt you for days after finishing.

This is one of McCarthy's first novels, and as good as this novel is, he has gone on to hone his talent even further, becoming one of the true masters of 20th century American fiction. I would recommend this to anyone who is a fan of Faulkner, and any of the authors he has influenced over the decades. Like his influences, McCarthy is not easy reading by any means, but also like them, reading him is a substantially rewarding experience.

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Cormac Junky Review

I admit it. I am hooked on McCarthy. Working thru every published thing the man has written. Just finished Outer Dark moments ago. Once you have the "break through" into his writing, (getting used to paragraph long sentences and the stunning lack of commas), you get totally and completly sucked into his world. The smells, taste, awe, the horror. Usually. I know outer dark is an early work and it is, in itself, truly amazing. At the same time, I did not find myself as transported into the story as Suttree, a work of similar nature and setting.

I would recomend this book, but not as a first Cormac read. You want your socks knocked off? Read Blood Meridian. Hell, read them all....But be ready to be changed. There is no going back after McCarthy.

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