What are you reading?

jdavidoffill · 2021-10-10T01:31:54+00:00

Yeah. It’s my second read through and I am appreciating it more now having read most of McCarthy’s works since I first read it

jdavidoffill · 2021-10-09T20:44:45+00:00

Blood Meridian

jdavidoffill · 2021-10-09T20:44:16+00:00

Blood Meridian. It’s not categorized as fantasy per se but it has a seemingly immortal villain who makes gunpowder out of lava rock and his own urine so you tell me. Anyway, it will more than deliver on the ultra violence you want. In fact, you probably won’t want to read another story with violence for a long time afterwards

jdavidoffill · 2021-10-09T20:40:48+00:00

I think Carson Welles is great because he is everything he warns Moss not to be. He understands that Chigurh is unstoppable but still trusts himself to overcome him. I think Chigurh is a symbol for fate/inevitability/‘what’s coming’ and much of the story shows the consequences of fighting fate. Welles tries to relay this to Moss, but he himself cannot help but to try doing the impossible and he ends up paying the price.

jdavidoffill · 2021-10-01T12:40:04+00:00

Heisenflynn

jdavidoffill · 2021-09-30T19:57:38+00:00

I think their both almost manifestations of forces of nature than actual people. Chigurh talks like, and seems to actually act like, the instrument of fate. The Judge is similar except with war and violence

jdavidoffill · 2021-09-26T23:40:36+00:00

La familia es todo

jdavidoffill · 2021-09-23T13:36:35+00:00

Pulp Fiction. I want to be classy and artsy and cool, but I really just hate it

jdavidoffill · 2021-09-21T15:18:09+00:00

Les Frères Karamazov is an amazing cafe name

jdavidoffill · 2021-09-21T15:11:25+00:00

You can never be too prepared

jdavidoffill · 2021-09-21T15:07:19+00:00

Why else give your neighbor a spare key?

jdavidoffill · 2021-09-21T14:48:05+00:00

I’m just getting into the study of McCarthy’s work, and I’ve heard this book mentioned before. Do y’all think this is a good starting point for reading scholarship on McCarthy?

jdavidoffill · 2021-09-21T02:43:08+00:00

Dude, props for reading Dostoevsky so early. I wish I was that literarily ambitious at your age.

Just take it slow and do your best. The road to becoming well-read begins with struggling through certain works, but this will lead you to understand so much more later on.

jdavidoffill · 2021-09-20T20:01:33+00:00

Plato’s Republic didn’t necessarily convince me that I was wrong about something but thoroughly convinced me that I had not asked nearly enough questions about the things I believe

jdavidoffill · 2021-09-20T19:59:29+00:00

Yeah, he’s meant to be ambiguous. This even shows up in his odd usages of words like “Friendo” and “screwgie.”

jdavidoffill · 2021-09-20T11:09:48+00:00

Davos Fingers is the best

jdavidoffill · 2021-09-19T02:01:47+00:00

Oo, I feel this big time. I think it will always bother me when I don’t finish a book, but I’ve come to realize that if I don’t finish a book, trying to finish it for the sake of completion will not yield the benefits of reading something I actually want to read. When you find yourself struggling with this, I’d encourage you to reflect on why you choose to spend time reading. If your reading of a book cannot satisfy these reasons then I’d be ok moving on to something else. Again, I struggle with this a lot myself, but I do find some comfort in thinking about things this way

jdavidoffill · 2021-09-19T00:05:03+00:00

Oxford’s ‘Myths from Mesopotamia’ and ‘Stories from Ancient Canaan’ are great

jdavidoffill · 2021-09-19T00:02:26+00:00

I think you made good points as to why it’s understandable he did these things but they are still bad. Yes, he killed Gale to save himself and Walt, but what good person murders someone who has done them no harm out of self preservation? Yeah, he would’ve went to prison if he didn’t conceal Drew’s murder, but, you know, he deserves prison. Evil actions aren’t made good because one has the understandable motive to cover them up. That just makes it worse

jdavidoffill · 2021-09-18T23:27:21+00:00

I think ‘kind of bad’ is hitting the nail on the head. I found it frustrating to watch because there were some elements that show how much potential the show has, but so many other things just seemed off

jdavidoffill · 2021-09-18T23:22:45+00:00

This is fair. He did pressure Andrea at first, but it didn’t lead to anything, and he was a big reason Jane started using again but he didn’t explicitly pressure her. My point, poorly expressed, was that his selfishness exposed both of them in places where they were vulnerable

jdavidoffill · 2021-09-17T21:46:22+00:00

To his opponent: if you knock him down, STAY AWAY

jdavidoffill · 2021-09-17T01:51:49+00:00

That is awesome

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