Best books/ BLOOD MERIDIAN

[Ted Samsel]

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> >   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.
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> 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. 

Read that, too. Good stuff!! Ever read RABBIT BOSS?

Ted Samsel....tejas at infi.net
     "driving a Hudson Hornet on the disinformation triple bypass:
      cruising for burgers & garage sales. Hooks baited, lines en-
      tangled, roadkill cooked"