# Cormac McCarthy had a 17-year old muse **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** books-writing-myths\ **Created:** [November 22, 2024, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cormac-mccarthy-had-a-17-year-old-muse/1010582 "2024-11-22T02:08:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2024, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cormac-mccarthy-had-a-17-year-old-muse/1010582/7 "2024-11-22T11:36:14Z")
You may find this earlier thread of interest. > [@Is Cormac McCarthy an acquired taste? I’m struggling mightily](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cormac-mccarthy-an-acquired-taste-i-m-struggling-mightily/1004959): > > So I decided to try and read a few high profile contemporary books and started with The Road by Cormac McCarthy and boy I think I may have misfired here. I’m only about 20 pages in but it has been a VERY slow 20 pages because of his writing style. Very little punctuation makes it hard to parse but I’m finding the bigger barrier to be his excessive use of “and”. Huge run on sentences that will have 5+ ands in them. “I did this and this was happening over there and the sky was blue and Greta … Personally, I find his writing challenging but rewarding. However, individual preferences will vary. What’s beyond argument is that the writing in the VF article thoroughly sucks. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cormac-mccarthy-had-a-17-year-old-muse/1010582)._