Peace through superior firepower

| quote: Originally posted by k5blazer: He can be a hard read...
You ain't seen nothin' yet. |
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Partial dichotomy
| Okay, this is definitely going on my list!
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Peace through superior firepower

| Revisiting one of the greatest books in all of American literature.
"His origins are become remote as is his destiny and not again in all the world's turning will there be terrains so wild and barbarous to try whether the stuff of creation may be shaped to man's will or whether his own heart is not another kind of clay."
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Internet Guru
| "A mans at odds to know his mind, cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but he don't want to. Best not to look in there." |
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Excitable Boy

| I took a break from books for a while. I need to dust off Suttree and finish reading it. Next on the list will be Blood Meridian.
China is Asshoe |
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Cogito Ergo Sum
| Finished reading it in May 2024. Enjoyed the story and the style. |
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| The Passenger and Stella Maris can be a slog at times, but are still rich with the genius of McCarthy. Compared to Blood Meridian, they seem like the literary equivalent of Mickey Mantle returning for Old Timer’s Day in 1978 and hitting one to the warning track. |
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| quote: Originally posted by parabellum: I'm consuming this thing slowly, like a package of exotic food unobtainable hereafter, or like a beautiful woman who, once gone, will never return.
I thought I was odd, taking time to read a good book. To stretch it out so as not to reach an end too soon. You describe my feelings of reading a gem quite well. Thanks for the recommendation. Got a hold on it at the library. |
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| I love reading McCarthy and Blood Meridian is about as epic a novel as you'll find in modern American literature. I need to reread it; it's been a while. Child Of God and Outer Dark are both pretty heavy, as well. No Country For Old Men and The Road are really good, too, and the movie adaptations were pretty faithful.
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