 Welcome to Church of the Chair where we celebrate our heroes. I'm your host E and today Unfortunately, I have some very sad news Cormac McCarthy passed away yesterday For those of you expecting a Thursday, I'm sorry a Stephen King theorist video today. There won't be one Instead, I want to sit with you guys and celebrate My one of my favorite authors and a man who I believe was our greatest living novelist Cormac McCarthy the very first book that I read of his was blood meridian and I absolutely fell in love with it Some people complain about his lack of punctuation or quotation marks But I've never had an issue with that To to celebrate His his work and his life. I'm going to show you guys my book collection Some of these about myself some were gifts from really good friends of mine And I'm just going to go through them tell you the ones that I've read and the ones that I am planning to read He has just just last year. He published two more books I believe one was in the summer or fall and the other one was in the winter But we're going to start off with those. I have not read them yet. These are the hardcovers. You have Sorry the passenger and you have Stella modest I believe is how you pronounce it and together they make This cover Kind of they don't really fit together all that well But uh, yeah, there's the here's the spines. I have not read these yet But I plan on getting them very soon I want I even toyed with the idea of doing a Cormac McCarthy theorist He doesn't write about worlds or or fantasy or any of that stuff But I thought it'd be cool to go in and try to you know, piece together certain characters and whatnot now on to the books that I have read This book is touted by many as being their favorite Cormac McCarthy. It's usually either this one or it's A blood meridian And I will tell you my favorites as we go along But uh, this one is The Road, which was of course made into a movie starring Viggo mortison It's a very affecting piece of literature. It's a very affecting movie And they're really really close. I think they're about as close as they could possibly get Um, but yeah, this one, uh, they should be in order of publication So this is the last book that he published Before the passenger. Um, I believe there was a span of 16 years between them. I could be wrong I haven't I haven't gone into much research about, you know, the chronological Order of his books or when they were published. So I apologize for that The next one is No Country for Old Men, which is another fantastic adaptation starring Tommy Lee Jones and Josh Broden. Is that his name? Uh This is this is one of those those books where the ending I think is absolutely pitch perfect for the stuff that came Before it especially in the adaptation where Tommy Lee Jones is just sitting there talking Um, and it's it's a very poignant Uh final bit of dialogue from Tommy Lee Jones. And I think it was absolutely pitch perfect All right, so the next ones I have not read these. Um And I have two different versions of them. I used to have three But I sent the paperbacks to a friend after my friend Josh sent me this one This is the border trilogy Um, which has all the pretty horses the crossing and cities of the plain and this is a Let's see here every man's library edition. It collects all three books in this one edition Um, and it's a chonker. It's about thousand pages. I believe each one of these books is three to four hundred pages in the series But yeah, it's a very very basic design. There's the man himself Cormac McCarthy And then I have the hard covers of each They I do have to do some sticker work But this is cities of the plain which I believe is the last book Yeah, it's the fine. It's the final one. So we're going in reverse. This is book three cities of the plain And then we have the crossing which is book two I believe let me make sure Yeah, and then finally we have all the pretty horses his covers were always super understated Um, sometimes I loved it. Sometimes I loved them. Sometimes I didn't I'm not a huge fan of the passenger and Stella Morris Um, but uh, yeah, I do like some of his understated covers I think the cover for the road is is brilliant. Just the the black cover with the With the title and byline on it Next up we have my personal brother. I have two favorites. Um, they're they're tied I can't pick one of the over the other. I know several people are going to disagree with this But that's not what this is about. I would love to hear the books that you loved From this author from Cormac McCarthy down there in the comments. I want to celebrate his life Um instead of mourning his death I want to celebrate his life by talking about The books that he wrote that meant the world to me meant the world to you Um, so yeah, please please no comments about how you couldn't get into them so on and so forth Um, just let this be a fan thread Next up we have blood meridian, which is tied for my favorite of his work The judge the character of the judge in this one is absolutely terrifying and the uh, the hints and nods That he might be the devil Certain stuff like that. Um, but the language in this is probably his most beautiful beautiful writing Next up we have another one. I have not read Uh, I know josh. I'm getting to it. I'm getting to it. But this is my buddy josh's favorite book of his and that's satree Um, I have no idea what this one is about. I'm not I believe it's another western But I could be completely off base and I don't want to know what it's about I go into cormac mccarthy's work completely blind Other than the road I ended up watching the movie first and then reading the book But uh, yeah, this uh, I'll get to this one Very very soon Next up we have my second Well, not second that this one's tied with blood meridian and that's outer Sorry, not outer dark outer dark's the next one. This is child of god Um, this book I feel this is literary horror done exceedingly well Probably my favorite literary horror and when I call him a horror author People roll their eyes or disagree with me But horror in the sense of horror as an emotion. It is deeply affecting brutal ugly And just amazingly written. So that's child of god Next up we have outer dark, which is the last book of his that I have read Um, it seemed like for a while there. I was going backward. I had read all the new stuff But I will be going through and rereading all of his stuff in order of publication Just because I like doing that. I'm a nerd in that sense. I love reading an author's Uh progression as they get older Outer dark is a very upsetting story About a baby created out of incest a brother and sister And the journey that they go on the brother lies and all this stuff is on the back cover the brother lies about having Killed the child out in the woods, but he actually just passed it along And the sister goes on a journey to try and find the baby and it goes places. I never would have expected Uh, for me, this is the closest thing McCarthy has done to a supernatural novel, but even those elements are just hinted at and he never gives you a definite Um, the last book I have of his in my collection. I know I'm missing some scripts. I'm missing some plays I'm missing some other things, but I I believe I have all of his novels Uh, you guys can let me know. Um, I didn't have much time to do this video So that's why I didn't research certain things But please if I say anything wrong as always correct me down there in the description If I get something major wrong and you want to correct it, I'll pin it But the orchard keeper is another one that I have not read. So I still need to read the border trilogy I need to I got a bunch of stuff and I'm very happy that I still have so many of his books to read because You know, we're not going we're probably not going to get anything else from him But yeah, the orchard keeper, I have no idea what this is about. I believe it's about a serial killer Um, he wrote a lot of westerns. He wrote a lot of Well, not only did he write a lot of westerns, but all of his books are horribly tragic But he somehow still managed to retain the beauty of the world Even when he's writing about the most crazy fucked up shit. So yeah Rest in peace Cormac McCarthy. You are definitely Definitely going to be missed especially by me and I'm sure countless others But until next time I'll hell the chair