The Road (was Homer & Langley )

[Carvill, John]

Hi Rich. I infer from that, then, that you didn't rate 'The Road' all that highly?

Will put 'Suttree' on my list.

BTW, did you get that Vasily Grossman book?


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if you get the chance read Suttree, McCarthy at his best--very grim
yes (some of the finer descriptions of being a bum, drunk and freezing
yr ass off) but tender at moments by gravesites, scary, funny (cf
watermelons), profound (there's a real witch towards the end
dispensing psychedlics)
Suttree is smart and lives by his wits on the river

its alot more balanced than the one note drone that Blood Meridian is
(not a criticism)

many of McCarthy's later works were originally screenplays so they
seem less than fleshed out novels. one is hoping this New Orleans
novel which he has been working on for awhile is a true novel

i also liked Child of God (gothic to the extrme) and Outer Dark (which
reads like a smaller version of BM, same dream-like menacing quality)

fwiw The Crossing is the best of the border trilogy books I think

rich