I've read his All The Pretty Horses and enjoyed it. He writes similarly to Hemingway, who's another author I like. The next book in my line to read is The Undergound Railroad by Colson Whitehead. I have to be in the mood to read any historical fiction like that (slaves escaping the South) because you know by it's very nature that it's going to be deeply moving.
That book is one of a trilogy known as the border trilogy. All The Pretty Horses, The Crossing and Cities of the Plain. Well worth reading them.
Long considered a potential candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature, Cormac McCarthy, a reclusive yet Hollywood-recognized American novelist and screenwriter, is also not a fan of punctuation. Quotation marks – “weird little marks,” as he puts it in an interview find themselves shunned in his works, which include No Country for Old Men and the Pulitzer-Prize winning, post-apocalyptic novel The Road. “I believe in periods, in capitals, in the occasional comma, and that’s it,”. “I mean, if you write properly you shouldn’t have to punctuate.” With a slew of literary awards under his belt, Cormac McCarthy certainly is not one to challenge when it comes to defining “writing properly”.
Let me start by saying that this is a football forum, where people from all walks of life, with different levels of education and different interests can come and express themselves about the game we all love. With that in mind, I don't expect everyone else to have the same interest in, or appreciation of, the nuances of language that I have, and I only light-heartedly take the piss out of some egregious mistakes for a bit of fun on here. However, I take exception to the claim that it makes no real difference. It's probably too long an argument to have on here, but it can often make a world of difference.
I think he's probably typed it so many times now that his phone has learnt the new spelling and defaults to it.
Yeah, well that's one that drives me mad like from and form. I think I should just call them oligarch ****s from now on.
You're absolutely right, saint. As usual. You and I see grammar the same way. It's a thing of beauty when used proficiently. No disrespect to anyone. My eldest daughter has a first class in history and an MA and I still have to bollocks her on occasion.
Surely the full stop after Saint is redundant plus one thinks in the context used the correct terminology is the singular of testicles
I agree it should have been "bollock her", although to RHC's credit they do usually hang around in pairs. I hasten to add my experience of said appendages is limited to my own pair.
The brevity of the first three sentences is ok, imo. That sort of staccato punctuation has a poetic function. My username is not capitalised at the beginning though, because I'm arty and pretentious.
Thought Leeds played in white. Have they changed colours or is that tshirt like that dress conundrum from a few years ago were some people saw it as blue and others white?
