Blood Meridian

[Ian Livingston]

I thought the movie was as disturbing as the book, but without the humor.

On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 2:48 PM, jesse gooch <jlguuch at gmail.com> wrote:

> Has anyone seen the Child of God movie? Tough watch. Not sure how I feel
> about it. The guy was so elfin’ unpleasant. I know that he was supposed to
> be, but not sure how well it carried over. Might be wrong, watched it after
> reading the Fangoria article, and just found it too harsh at the time.
>
> On Jun 6, 2017, at 7:05 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> That's Child of God, of course, with an act of godlessness that can sink
> all hope.
>
> On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 5:02 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> For what it is worth, I'll repeat it here. Suttree was the first novel
>> McCarthy started to write.....and the fourth published, as you know.
>>
>> The late Roger Ebert liked it most, it seems. Widest and richest were his
>> reasons, as he steadily said. ( do not know if he wrote a singular piece
>> about it--or Blood Meridian. )
>>
>> Ya know McCarthy's phrase " pandemonium of the sun" was the one Pynchon
>> had JohnLarroqutte use in his show about Pynchon and the new book he was
>> working on. Pretty much All think
>> Pynchon collaborated with him, this was not John and his writers.
>>
>> The Orchard Keeper is the novel, the first published, which frames well
>> most of his lifelong themes and tropes. His Faulkner influence with the
>> widest angle lens--until the later novels. The other two early ones go
>> deeper into the baddest shit.....ESP the unforgettable Dostoevskian scene
>> in Act of God.
>>
>> The story of how Sonny Mehta " broke him out" to bestselling success with
>> the campaign, " the greatest unread living novelist" is a good piece of
>> cultural history.
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> On Jun 5, 2017, at 10:15 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I would try Suttree, Joseph--a much better book than Blood Meridian
>> (which I highly respect and would recommend but do not love).
>>
>> rich
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 12:15 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
>>
>>> First step to get out of hole, stop digging. First step to cooling down,
>>> stop starting fires.  We want the evolution of the species to require the
>>> sum total of human genius but what does that mean when so much skill has
>>> been developed for burning down the house.
>>>
>>> There is a certain kind of gnosticism that sees this as a hell planet
>>> ruled by deception.  In such a world fiends have a supernatural advantage.
>>> McCarthy seems to waver between something like that and a kind of grim
>>> survivalism. His is a mind I don’t care to visit ever again despite the
>>> visceral prose style.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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