Best books/ BLOOD MERIDIAN

[Jake Martin]

>   I'm not much of a western reader ('cept for historical tomes & narrative
> accounts) but BLOOD MERIDIAN by Cormac McCarthy is one of the better ones.
> And more real than many people would like it to be.

I don't know that you gotta be much of a western reader, or even that 
it's appropriate to consider Blood Meridian strictly to be a western. 
It is, however, a damn fine read, and the best piece of writing on 
the violence at the heart of America that I've seen in years.  Makes 
a great whitemale companion to Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the 
Dead, too.