NP:Blood Meridian

[P Taylor]

Yeah, it's well written (is the guy a MacArthur fellowship holder?
possibly)... but it's just variations on a theme of scalping, interspersed
with bludgeoning hints that the big bald guy is the devil.... sitting around
the fire like a foreign deity ONCE AGAIN... struck me as heavy handed, and
the ending really really disappointed, though I couldn't see where it was
going to go that could be satisfying, because there isn't much plot.

I finished it just to finish it, even though there is plenty of good writing
there, 'tis true.

--PT

On 8/3/06, pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Just received a copy as a gift, move it to the top of
> the To Read list.
>
>
>
> >
> > "My concern being the reader, I will begin by
> > confessing that my first two
> > attempts to read through Blood Meridian failed,
> > because I flinched from the
> > overwhelming carnage that McCarthy portrays."
> >
> > Harold Bloom, 'How to Read and Why", p. 255
> >
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