Reading/Saying Goodbye to Cormac McCarthy 13-THE SUNSET LIMITED: RGBIB 438

[@darklingeraeld-ridge7946]

Love your attitude which makes your channel entertaining as well as informative. However, I think CMcM is philosophical, but in the sense of natural philosophy (not old sense of biology etc) - but as in what you hear in a cafe or at a bus stop … ideas about living life, aside from academic philosophy, talking up it’s own fundament. Was surprised not to be have subscribed - have now! Many thanks

[@Scottmbradfield]

Thanks for dropping by the bathtub, Gerald! We may finally catch up with Cormac's last novels by the end of the year! s

[@stantonsullivan-readdelillo]

Hey Scott, glad you’ve returned in one piece. I read this last year and it was pretty unsettling for me. I found it really powerful. Some of the implications towards the end to me almost seemed to a subversion of the Manichean. Maybe I misread. Really interesting nonetheless. Thanks, Scott

[@Scottmbradfield]

There's not much to hope for in a Cormac McC novel except maybe the least worst option... I don't think you can miss much there! Stay safe anyway, Stanton!

[@martinsFILMS13]

I'm staring with Blood Meridian

[@Scottmbradfield]

That's a good start...s

[@bluewordsme2]

i actually loved it...i think reading it hand-in-hand with the Road dooms the book....just like the Counselor, which is a brilliant cant-put-down screenplay a la early McCarthy, but the film was god awful.....can't wait to see your vid on The Passenger and Stella Maris, loved. both, even with some of the mad math stuff, but i think if you think Stella (at least for me) is actually a prologue to the suicide of Alicia Western (which opens The Passenger)...but wont say more until your video as to how i read/interpreted the The Passenger.....but welcome back SB, glad to see your made it unscathed and Raphaelesque from the Red Curtain....i guess you ate well....welcome home....and happy thanksgiving from the great Maple Leaf Curtain....bb

[@Scottmbradfield]

Yeah it's hard not to eat well in China... More McCarthy (and living poets) soon! s

[@lukestables708]

Tommy Lee Jones & Samuel L. Jackson made a movie about this too which isn't bad I guess. Yeah I like this too. You feel he's grappling with the issues (or issue) and not coming up with something that's just trite or simply been said before.

[@Scottmbradfield]

Interesting... I don't think I'll watch the movie, but I did enjoy the book...s

[@MrKylePopovich]

It's my favourite play to movie adaptation for chamber plays and two characters/two handers. Really excited to hear a comparison.

[@Scottmbradfield]

@@MrKylePopovich Interesting, I do really like the novel version but didn't know about the film one... Take care, Kyle! s

[@ChrisC-ei2kc]

Never read the novel 'The Road' but I did watch the film. Did you figure out what started the cataclysmic event? - and, very well directed I must say.

[@ChrisC-ei2kc]

And by the way, McCarthy was an innovative prose plagiarist; Possibly the best in modern history.

[@ChrisC-ei2kc]

"Show me a religion that prepares one for death." Sounds like a Nietzsche quote.

[@Scottmbradfield]

I couldn't bring myself to watch the movie but the book is pretty brilliantly dark. It doesn't matter to Cormac much who starts these wars we're stuck with the same end in the long run! Stay safe, Chris. s

[@ChrisC-ei2kc]

@@Scottmbradfield The part where his wife abandons him and the child is a huge clue.

[@williamgass9242]

Because the first trump term was so horrible..

[@ChrisC-ei2kc]

Hahaha You could have become a millionaire under Trump.

[@williamgass9242]

@@ChrisC-ei2kc technically with our free market system, you can become a millionaire whenever you're ready

[@freddydurbin6778]

Yeah. It was.

[@williamgass9242]

@freddydurbin6778 what happened?