NP:Blood Meridian

[Tim Strzechowski]

Are you referring here to the Bloom book?


> Just received a copy as a gift, move it to the top of
> the To Read list.
>

It's quite good, as far as Bloom goes.  He's always struck me as a blowhard 
most of the time, but his _How To Read and Why_ and _Shakespeare: The 
Invention of the Human_ are solid analyses.


>
>>
>> "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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