The Road

[Scott Badger]

Q--
> If you are expecting Blood Meridian, you may be disappointed. It's much 
> more
> stripped-down, bleak, and concentrated. As if McCarthy dropped Blood
> Meridian in a pot to boil away all of the excess fat, then laid out the 
> bare
> bones to bleach in the cold sun.
>

That's pretty much how I'd describe BM relative to anything else....

ATPH struck me as an author in terminal decline, but I've been encouraged to 
give McCarthy one more shot....

Anyhow, currently...
The Education of Henry Adams (boning up for ATD)
A Nathanael West anthology (in the middle of Miss Lonelyhearts, but I can 
only take one chapter at a time...)

next...
The Road
Lookout Cartridge

and perpetually pecking at...
The White Goddess
The Anatomy of Melancholy

Scott