Blood Meridian

[rich]

same here--well, in terms of total lack of humor, nothing beats BM;
Suttree, however, despite its bleak doings, in parts is at least
somewhat humorous.

delillo's last few books have been overwrought in the same way.

rich

On 4/19/05, Will Layman <WillLayman at comcast.net> wrote:
> I have never head BM because I thought ALL THE PRETTY HORSES was one of the
> most overrated and overwrought books I'd ever read.  I thought that book was
> somewhat ridiculous ode to the homoerotic power of horses/men out on the
> open plain.  I couldn't relate to it at all.  And the total lack of humor
> kind of got to me too.
> 
> Would I like BM more than ATPH?
> 
> -- Will Layman
> 
> 
> 
> On 4/19/05 2:21 PM, "Tim Strzechowski" <dedalus204 at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> Absolutely.  The Judge is one of those great literary incarnations of the
> "devil," right up there with Dickens's Fagin, Melville's Confidence Man, et
> al.  
>  
> And the style of BM is ... I don't know ... "poetically stark"??
>  
> Great book.
>  
> Tim
>  
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> 
> > yeah but BM has that bald gay pederast satan-person, and you can't beat 
> > that. 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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