This opening line/paragraph... Dear friend now in the dusty clockless hours of the town when the streets lie black and steaming in the wake of the watertrucks and now when the drunk and the homeless have washed up in the lee of walls in alleys or abandoned lots and cats go forth highshouldered and lean in the grim perimeters about, now in these sootblacked brick or cobbled corridors where lightwire shadows make a gothic harp of cellar doors no soul shall walk save you. Stunning.
Just started it after finishing "Outer Dark" (which I loved for its bleakness and tension). "Suttree" has been on my list for a long time because I grew up and live in Knoxville, and the Comer in Comer's Sports Bar is my great uncle. :o) His description of Market Square - "He went among vendors and beggars and wild street preachers haranguing a lost world with vigor unknown to the sane" is A. one of my favorite lines ever and B. 70 years later is still pretty much true about Market Square on a Saturday during the Farmers Market.
Suttree is my favorite McCarthy novel. I consider it to be on the top shelf of American literature. Currently reading The Passenger, back to the Tennessee novels👍. While a very different story and protagonist there are echoes of Suttree in Bobby Western’s outlook and perceptions of living. Strongly encourage you to read The Passenger…
Why haven't u done more of these?!?! Book reviews matched with music to read by...u are definitely a man after my own heart!! Please make some more videos.
Pretty dope review, might have to pick this book up! One question though, what happened to the mic? Watching on my phone theres a significant drop in audio quality from the first review.
Just started Suttrree. Recently (in March-now) read Blood Meridian and Child of God, and Sound and Fury and As I Lay Dying. How do you handle the unusual vocabulary? Pause and look up every word you don’t know?
If you got through Blood Meridian, you’ll have no trouble with Suttree. Suttree is much less depressing and gruesome and it’s a more lighthearted read. You know I use to make a strong effort to stop and look words up, but after I started taking on more difficult books (especially David Foster Wallace, who’s vocabulary is frustratingly excessive), I’ve learned the best thing to do is to analyze the context the word is used in, usually you can get the main idea the author is trying to convey.
Just finished Suttree on audiobook, I know probably cheating. I enjoyed it and I took away the struggle of the poor and destitute to survive is really heroic. You can’t help but be on their side, often humour is a coping mechanism. Overall McCarty shows down and outs in a soft kind light although he might not admit it.
I know it takes place in the 50’s, but does the book reflect Knoxville accurately? After reading this book I feel like definitely been under that bridge in Knoxville myself. It’s clear that McCarthy thought that the setting was the most important part of the novel given how much emphasis he put on describing it so well
@@bookreviewpnw9838 I don't live in the US but i have read that they have a few places in Knoxville named after Suttree. It's The Knoxville book like Ulysses is for Dublin.
PIKE, not 'pipe'. Your luke warm take on this masterpiece was one thing, not knowing an age old idiom solidified it: your literary bona fides are bogus.
This opening line/paragraph...
Dear friend now in the dusty clockless hours of the town when the streets lie black and steaming in the wake of the watertrucks and now when the drunk and the homeless have washed up in the lee of walls in alleys or abandoned lots and cats go forth highshouldered and lean in the grim perimeters about, now in these sootblacked brick or cobbled corridors where lightwire shadows make a gothic harp of cellar doors no soul shall walk save you.
Stunning.
Just started it after finishing "Outer Dark" (which I loved for its bleakness and tension). "Suttree" has been on my list for a long time because I grew up and live in Knoxville, and the Comer in Comer's Sports Bar is my great uncle. :o)
His description of Market Square - "He went among vendors and beggars and wild street preachers haranguing a lost world with vigor unknown to the sane" is A. one of my favorite lines ever and B. 70 years later is still pretty much true about Market Square on a Saturday during the Farmers Market.
Suttree is my favorite McCarthy novel. I consider it to be on the top shelf of American literature. Currently reading The Passenger, back to the Tennessee novels👍. While a very different story and protagonist there are echoes of Suttree in Bobby Western’s outlook and perceptions of living. Strongly encourage you to read The Passenger…
Why haven't u done more of these?!?! Book reviews matched with music to read by...u are definitely a man after my own heart!! Please make some more videos.
It is a ride...
Like a rickety rollercoaster
blasting through pine trees and poison ivy.
It goes nowhere until the end.
Dig it.
Peace on earth.
Read it twice but it’s been a while - your review shares the story’s breath and brings it back.
Haven't read this one yet, so thanks for the review -- plus the music recommendations! Good taste 👍
Great review. I loved this book.
Do you think Gene is the one who hit Willard in the eye?
Great review sir thank you.
Books like Suttree teach you how to read a book. You can't breeze through. McCarthy demands that you pay attention.
why don't you make videos anymore? I really want to watch more reviews by you
Pretty dope review, might have to pick this book up! One question though, what happened to the mic? Watching on my phone theres a significant drop in audio quality from the first review.
Thomas Walsh still playing around with different cameras and set ups. I’ll hone it in over the next couple videos
Just started Suttrree. Recently (in March-now) read Blood Meridian and Child of God, and Sound and Fury and As I Lay Dying.
How do you handle the unusual vocabulary? Pause and look up every word you don’t know?
If you got through Blood Meridian, you’ll have no trouble with Suttree. Suttree is much less depressing and gruesome and it’s a more lighthearted read.
You know I use to make a strong effort to stop and look words up, but after I started taking on more difficult books (especially David Foster Wallace, who’s vocabulary is frustratingly excessive), I’ve learned the best thing to do is to analyze the context the word is used in, usually you can get the main idea the author is trying to convey.
Loved Suttree! And thank you for introducing me to the Black Keys. I love them.
Just finished Suttree on audiobook, I know probably cheating. I enjoyed it and I took away the struggle of the poor and destitute to survive is really heroic. You can’t help but be on their side, often humour is a coping mechanism. Overall McCarty shows down and outs in a soft kind light although he might not admit it.
this sounds very similar to Cormacs life. He seems to have lived a very boring, driftwood life
I love black Keys btw.
I liked your review. I live in Knoxville.
I know it takes place in the 50’s, but does the book reflect Knoxville accurately? After reading this book I feel like definitely been under that bridge in Knoxville myself. It’s clear that McCarthy thought that the setting was the most important part of the novel given how much emphasis he put on describing it so well
@@bookreviewpnw9838 I don't live in the US but i have read that they have a few places in Knoxville named after Suttree. It's The Knoxville book like Ulysses is for Dublin.
I don't think you plumbed the depth of this great novel.
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Why did he stopped making videos ,is he dead?
PIKE, not 'pipe'.
Your luke warm take on this masterpiece was one thing, not knowing an age old idiom solidified it: your literary bona fides are bogus.