Make one good adaptation of an award-winning author’s work and suddenly everything the guy touches becomes gold. Cormac McCarthy, the author of critically acclaimed books like Blood Meridian and The Crossing, is auctioning his portable Olivetti manual typewriter. The device has served McCarthy over 45 years, and is the tool he used to craft his genius-grant winning novels, but I guarantee if the film version of No Country For Old Men wasn’t made and the only cinematic reference he had was the Billy Bob Thornton directed All The Pretty Horses
, this relic would barely be worth the $50 he first bought it for.What are you really buying if you’re the winning bid to this Christies auction? The item is projected to get between $15,000 and $20,000, which is at least ten Mac books. Sure, this is the same machine which McCarthy used to type out “The Road,” which just came out as a film staring Aragorn and that Monster lady, but it also was used to type out Child of God, a book that isn’t even good enough to be adapted into a television series! Save your money and hope that Stephen King hits the bottle hard enough that he has to hit up eBay. That sounds harsh, but I'm sure he would get an amazing novel out of it. That guy is one hell of a talent.
