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Do you like reading? I found myself back to this habit and i need recommendations!!!

His writing is no match for ( Stanley Kubrick as a director or Jack Nicholson as an actor) Did you see that horrible long made for TV version. Stephen King didn't like the movie. So he took the least talented cast member of the show, Wings and made a horrible TV movie.

I couldn't watch very much of it, honestly.
His movie adaptations rate between 0% on Rotten Tomatoes to 94%.

But honestly, A good Study Bible is what I would recommend Above All Else.

I recommend John MacArthur's( various translations available)
 
Cormac McCarthy - I just love his style!

I can't articulate exactly why, but I guess it's one of those things that will either resonate with the reader or not.

Accessible places to start are No Country For Old Men or The Road. Both are beautifully written, almost poetic. But violent and / or bleak at times for sure.

Although great movies were made from both books, which do pretty much straight up follow the original narratives, the books are arguably better.

Blood Meridian is becoming a much more popular and well known book over recent times, but it has proven extremely controversial, especially upon it's initial release it seems at that time America did not want to know about all the gory details about how the Native Americans were violently decimated.

The violence is unrelenting and too much for many people.

It is also said to be a difficult book to make sense of, in book format, as McCarthy does not use punctuation or speech quotes.

Listening to it on audiobook completely removes those difficulties, and I would recommend that medium for this book. (I'm not sure if he doesn't use punctuation in any of his books, as my own book consumption is done entirely by audiobook.)

I've been so impressed with the above 3 books that I plan to read all of his other works in chronological order.
 
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VoidUwU said:
Interesting! I only read about spiritism, cristianism and buddhism. Buddhism was definitely my favorite from them.
Always good to give it a try to a knew one!
Thank you
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If you like Buddhism you'll probably like some of Guenons other books too, as he wrote extensively on Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity and Islam.
He was a perennialist philosopher, which basically means he tried to find the common essence and truth in the major world religions. This is not to be confused with universalism which demands compromise of the religions to be more like each other, perennialism is more about what they already have in common. As such he extensively studied and compared all the major religions of the world. He ultimately settled on sufi Islam as his personal path, but his works are all fairly unbiased. He tried hard not to lean into orientialism or eurocentrism.
 
l41n said:
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this is intriguing me too
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Apologies for the double post, I don't know how to insert quotes into an edit.
Pretty much any of the religious centric works by Guenon are top tier. I disagree with some of his works of social commentary, but he did genuinely do a lot of great research in comparative religion.
 
Bleaney said:
Cormac McCarthy - I just love his style!

I can't articulate exactly why, but I guess it's one of those things that will either resonate with the reader or not.

Accessible places to start are No Country For Old Men or The Road. Both are beautifully written, almost poetic. But violent and / or bleak at times for sure.

Although great movies were made from both books, which do pretty much straight up follow the original narratives, the books are arguably better.

Blood Meridian is becoming a much more popular and well known book over recent times, but it has proven extremely controversial, especially upon it's initial release it seems at that time America did not want to know about all the gory details about how the Native Americans were violently decimated.

The violence is unrelenting and too much for many people.

It is also said to be a difficult book to make sense of, in book format, as McCarthy does not use punctuation or speech quotes.

Listening to it on audiobook completely removes those difficulties, and I would recommend that medium for this book. (I'm not sure if he doesn't use punctuation in any of his books, as my own book consumption is done entirely by audiobook.)

I've been so impressed with the above 3 books that I plan to read all of his other works in chronological order.
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The Road, what's it about, specifically?The reason I ask is it is too close to the Title of 'On The Road' , That Jack Kerouac Novel found me. I went to a large book store when I was in College in the 90's and I was going to be going on a huge long trip on a bus( Greyhound, it is a long distance bus here). So I am clueless and for some reason I ended up in the fiction isle. I turned around and I saw the words" On The Road." I picked it up and bought it; and had no idea who even wrote it. I have read book after book at times and gone years without much book reading.( I love how ignorant that sounds, is readin' a bit much? I thought so.lol

It took me almost a year to read? Because, I didn't want a novel that novel to end. It was so good so perfect. If stephen King wrote it; I would still not be done. Then again I wouldn't have read it.
Yes, I own Stephen King novels.

Is his style from the lack of a proper education? Or is he he like me and said" The English language is messed up and I will learn to write. Then write as I please, rules"?
 
Jnowhere said:
Is his style from the lack of a proper education?
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Lol, not a chance!

He made his own rules.

In a nutshell it's a post apocalyptic tale of father and son making their way through desolate waste lands, constantly hungry and exhausted. But in that bleak tale is a lot of beauty. It's a great book (and movie.)

It couldn't be any more different to Jack Kerouac's book.
 
What no stolen cars, drugs, kicks, and semi -autobiographical, in the American 1950's.lol Ours ( the 1950's) was a lot more Pleasant, especially after 1953 in America. We lost part of a territory that wasn't a State till 1959 and was 2,500 miles from the western most shores of Cali. ( They don't deserve to have there name spelled out). They had the best state and trashed it.
 
streaM Freak said:
What do you know about Mr Hill?
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I've only read the fireman by him. It takes place in an area I used to live in so it was cool to picture the location as I was reading the book. He also writes horror fiction.
I live in New England so Stephen King is kinda on my radar. I just read something about how he doesn't live in his house in Bangor Maine anymore. It's been turned into a museum and writer's retreat. Bangor is also the real 'Derry'. Maybe one day it'd be worth a visit.
 
I read about Blood Meridian online somewhere, recently.

It's sounds like my kind of book. I'll be giving it a go at some point.
 
Ok , I got a great one if you can find it. I may reread it myself.
Title: Chasing the Dragon, Into the Heart of The Golden Triangle.
Author: Christopher R. Cox.
Genre: non-fiction.
Basic Story: True,real life story of a reporter and his Journey in the 1990's to meet General Khun-Sa, who at the time was estimated to control 1/3 of the world's heroin supply. In Burma he was in charge of A people's resistance army( guerilla army). He taxed and controled opium production to the Triads. This to buy weapons to fight for the Shan people and their land.
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Note: some claim he was a puppet and a retarded 3rd world hillbilly. He loved attention. He liked interviews but was in a war zone where Westerns never go. He disappeared and died many years later.

It is about a journey into a war zone and Burma via Thailand. It is interesting and good.
 
BadBoy377 said:
I read about Blood Meridian online somewhere, recently.

It's sounds like my kind of book. I'll be giving it a go at some point.
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It's probably not the best Cormac McCarthy book to start with tbh, it's difficult for many reasons. Emotionally, punctuation wise, plus the narration is kind of very complex and 'jumps' from one place to another, sometimes mid 'sentence'. Well I found it complex anyway, and several times had to watch some guides for context, background, and summaries to understand wtf was supposed to be going on.

I guess it's like studying any difficult classic in that context. Most people would need further context to be able to get the full benefit of a fuller understanding of what is going on.

Or if you like jumping in at the deep end, go for it!
 
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Bleaney said:
Lol, not a chance!

He made his own rules.

In a nutshell it's a post apocalyptic tale of father and son making their way through desolate waste lands, constantly hungry and exhausted. But in that bleak tale is a lot of beauty. It's a great book (and movie.)

It couldn't be any more different to Jack Kerouac's book.
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look at what I said at the end. Basically did he m ake is own rules, is kind of implied.
 
I mean you acted like I didn't imply that. I was trying to figure if he was a true outsider, so to speak.

Oh, did you see the Back book cover with a review of The Death of Bunny Munro?
Cormac McCarthy is mentioned.
 
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