[HN Gopher] Cormac McCarthy's Olivetti Lettera 32
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       Cormac McCarthy's Olivetti Lettera 32
        
       Author : nyc111
       Score  : 25 points
       Date   : 2023-01-27 11:53 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | metmac wrote:
       | I believe the Olivetti Valentine famously on display at The Met
       | and the MoMA at one point, were actually just retooled/modified
       | Lettera 32s.
       | 
       | In any case, these little machines are brilliant and I've owned
       | around 4 of them over the years.
        
       | idlewords wrote:
       | It would be way more fun if _The Road_ had been written on a
       | tangerine iBook G3.
        
       | chadlavi wrote:
       | That stupid website paused my music and played sound effects with
       | its intrusive chat bot
        
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       | david_shaw wrote:
       | Unrelated to his typewriter, I'm currently reading Cormac
       | McCarthy's _Suttree_ , and I'm really enjoying it.
       | 
       | I had previously only associated McCarthy with _The Road_ and
       | _Blood Meridian_ , but I'm glad I gave some of his other work a
       | shot.
        
         | themisto wrote:
         | When _Suttree_ found me it was exactly the right time and it
         | left me forever changed. Not a month goes by I don 't think of
         | it nearly a decade later. Definitely my personal favorite of
         | his. Wish I was reading it again for the first time :)
        
         | Baeocystin wrote:
         | Cormac McCarthy has the dubious distinction in my library of
         | producing the most beautiful English I've ever read in service
         | of such unrelentingly dismal stories that I don't feel that I
         | have the stomach to read them again. I admit this is a me
         | problem, but still.
         | 
         | I've only read _The Road_ and _Blood Meridian_ , though. Does
         | _Suttree_ follow the same pattern?
         | 
         | [edit] Thank you for the answers!
        
           | giraffe_lady wrote:
           | They're all sort of heavy and with grim parts but I think the
           | two you already read are the most disturbing by far. There
           | are some parts of his other books as intense as those two but
           | they aren't pervasive.
        
           | ycombinete wrote:
           | All the Pretty Horses isn't all that bleak. More of a western
           | Bildungsroman.
        
           | beezlebroxxxxxx wrote:
           | Not really. Suttree is not exactly a happy story, but it has
           | beautiful prose descriptions of filth and the Tennessee
           | river, great rendering of vernacular language and culture,
           | and some hilarious laugh out loud segments (the watermelon
           | incident, for instance). It's probably the least dismal of
           | his books, tone-wise.
        
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