# Cormac McCarthy has died (13 June 2023)

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** celebrity-death, books-writing-myths\
**Created:** [June 13, 2023, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cormac-mccarthy-has-died-13-june-2023/985448 "2023-06-13T19:49:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2023, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cormac-mccarthy-has-died-13-june-2023/985448/41 "2023-06-15T15:41:55Z")

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I really enjoy most of Cormac’s books, but I do sometimes have a hard time getting through parts of them. I really loved _The Road_ and _No Country For Old Men_ and found them to be the easiest to read. My favorite books were the Border Triology. I have his two new books that recently came out, but have been waiting for our upcoming vacations to dive into these. I’m looking forward to them.

> [@Chefguy](#):
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> I can see that. I’m afraid my favorite western writer is still McMurtry. I recently reread all of the Lonesome Dove books in order and enjoyed them ever bit as much as the first time around.

I think I lean this way too. Love the _Lonesome Dove_ series as well as his “americana” novels like the Duane Moore series.

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**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2023, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cormac-mccarthy-has-died-13-june-2023/985448/42 "2023-06-17T13:12:42Z")

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I read **The Road** and thought it was fantastic. While reading it I thought how it would make a great movie. Not so much.  
Some of the best stuff about the book was omitting any backstory about an event that lead to the apocalypse or their life before being on the road. I guess Hollywood types decided audiences couldn’t handle the vagueness and added that in for them.

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**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2023, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cormac-mccarthy-has-died-13-june-2023/985448/43 "2023-06-17T13:57:46Z")

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Did you see the movie or only the trailer? The movie didn’t have anything about the cause or life before, other than a few scenes in the early post-apocalypse period with the mother. But they added stuff to the trailer about global disasters that was nowhere to be found in the movie.

That said, I thought the movie was very good but not amazing. It was true to the events and tone of the book, but never really took off. I’d rank it higher than _All the Pretty Horses_ but not as good as _No Country_.

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