NP:Blood Meridian

[Michael F]

There's a helluva lot more going on than just "Wild West Action."  Not only
is the language aesthetically brilliant, it is a smorgasboard containing
referents that direct a careful readers attention to everything from early
Christian thought up to the French thinkers from the latter part of the 20th
Century.  Read, and re-read- Carefully.
On 8/3/06, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> I'm about a quarter of the way through Blood Meridian (just past the
> massacre by the Indians in Mexico sequence).  I know a lot of the people on
> this list have read it.  Question:  Is it worth finishing?  I get the whole
> history- of- the- West-as- bloody- wasteland thing, but is there going to be
> any real character or plot development from here?  Is there anything this
> book conveys that isn't conveyed by the show Deadwood in a much more
> entertaining/pop culture way?  I ask, because I'm kind of depressed, and the
> book's a real downer to plow through.
>
> Laura
>
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