![]() Little known to the public at age 60, he would become one of the country’s most honored and successful writers despite rarely talking to the press. McCarthy’s own story was one of belated, and continuing, achievement and popularity. ![]() “And since death comes to all there is no way to abate the fear of it except to love that man who stands for us.” “Every man’s death is a standing in for every other,” McCarthy wrote in “Cities of the Plain,” the trilogy’s final book. As the doomed John Grady Cole of McCarthy’s celebrated “Border” trilogy would learn, dreams of a better life were only dreams, and falling in love an act of folly. Across stark and forbidding landscapes and rundown border communities, he placed drifters, thieves, prostitutes and old, broken men, all unable to escape fates determined for them well before they were born. McCarthy’s themes, like Faulkner’s, often were bleak and violent and dramatized how the past overwhelmed the present. McCarthy, raised in Knoxville, Tennessee, was compared to William Faulkner for his expansive, Old Testament style and rural settings. ![]() “Millions of readers around the world embraced his characters, his mythic themes, and the intimate emotional truths he laid bare on every page, in brilliant novels that will remain both timely and timeless, for generations to come.” “For 60 years, he demonstrated an unwavering dedication to his craft, and to exploring the infinite possibilities and power of the written word,” Penguin Random House CEO Nihar Malaviya said in a statement. Knopf, a Penguin Random House imprint, announced that McCarthy died of natural causes at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. SANTA FE, N.M.-Cormac McCarthy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who in prose both dense and brittle took readers from the southern Appalachians to the desert Southwest in such novels as “The Road,” “Blood Meridian,” and “All the Pretty Horses,” died Tuesday. 16, 2009 (Mark Von Holden/Getty Images for Dimension Films) Just don't forget to get the necessary cabling when you order it.Writer Cormac McCarthy (L) and director John Hillcoat attend the New York premiere of "The Road" at Clearview Chelsea Cinemas in New York on Nov. If you're looking to get more over-the-air stations in your area, the ClearStream MAX-V is a solid choice. Not only did it do better than many of our favorite indoor antennas, including the Mohu Arc Pro, it also matched some of the best outdoor antennas, like the ClearStream 2MAX HDTV Antenna, though paying for a more expensive model will often get you better performance thanks to amplifiers and better tuning capabilities. While its aesthetics may leave something to be desired, there's no doubt that the ClearStream MAX-V is a very capable TV antenna. ![]() And it did much better than some comparably priced models, such as the $80 Mohu Arc Pro Indoor HDTV Antenna that only pulled in 34 stations in our testing. The ClearChannel MAX-V didn't capture as many stations as, for example, the $100 Winegard Elite 7550 (73 stations) or the $150 Antop AT-800SBS HD Smart Panel Antenna (68 stations) but it is much less expensive. The MAX-V could be hidden behind a table-top situated TV, but to get the best reception it's better to attach it to a wall (with the supplied mounting plate) near the exterior of your home, which many may regard as akin to sticking a giant black insect on the wall. It can't be concealed like a flat indoor-only antenna or tucked behind a bookcase. Shaped like a large figure 8 with a horizontal antenna bar, the ClearStream MAX-V may not suit the decor of many living rooms. And while it didn't do as well in testing as some outdoor models, like Antop AT-800SBS HD Smart Panel Antenna, the ClearStream MAX-V is roughly half the price of such antennas. For example, it pulled in 15 more channels than we saw in our Mohu Arc Pro Indoor HDTV Antenna review, a similarly priced amplified model. It doesn't use an amplifier but it still did very well in our tests. Rated to capture stations as far away as 60 miles, the ClearStream MAX-V from Antennas Direct will work indoors or out and is competitively priced.
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