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Originally Posted by GypsySorcerer
Blood Meridian is excellent...and you're right, probably his greatest achievement.
Do you think The Road was his last work?
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Ah, you've read it? Wonderful! I find that most people that I run across that have read McCarthy have only read The Road. Which is fine - it's the most popular right now, due to all that Oprah attention, and at least they've read SOMETHING he's written. Everyone should experience McCarthy at least once.
But man...
Blood Meridian. That book is pure poetry - grotesque and gorgeous - definitely McCarthy at his best, in my opinion, and definitely not something anyone other than McCarthy could have pulled off so beautifully. I can't count how many times I've read it now.
I hear they are making a movie, which concerns me greatly. I don't think the film adaptation of
The Road came even close to capturing the book, and with
The Road being so much more accessible than
Blood Meridian is, I just don't think a film is a good idea. For me, McCarthy's brilliance is partly story, but mostly language - the WAY he tells that story.
"Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery."
But yeah - I honestly hope it is not his last book, because I hate the idea of never getting to read something new from him again. But if it is, then I'd have it "just so and no different," like the man in
The Road would, because I consider each of his books to be a gift and I'm lucky I got to read what I did.
/end total fangirl
