DashiellHammett@alien.topBtoBooks@metacritics.zone•If you like Cormac McCarthy you should check out Thomas HardyEnglish
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11 months agoI adore Thomas Hardy, his novels and poetry. Jude the Obscure is one of my all time favorite novels. In contrast, I abhor Cormac McCarthy, and his tortured faux-Faulkner (or wannabe Faulkner) style. (BTW I LOVE Faulkner). Blood Meridian may be one of the most over-rated so-called classic novels ever. And don’t even get me started on The Road.
And that is also his biggest problem. Nothing McCarthy ever wrote holds a candle to Faulkner.