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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 2766317" data-attributes="member: 259">Glad to see some more McCarthy love! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  I had a writing tutor in college who introduced us to McCarthy, both as a guy who could set a scene and a guy who could build character through dress. Both excerpts were from Blood Meridian:  the former involved resonant earth, and the latter involved a wedding dress.  If you've read the book, I'm pretty sure you know what I'm talking about.The bit about its being fine literature is also no joke.  It's probably not the best literary work I've ever read, but it's undoubtedly literary in even the snootiest sense of the word:  despite being a gripping tale with plenty of plot, it's also very well respected in literary circles, with McCarthy being so good that there's actually a backlash against him.  The backlash article I read awhile ago was pretty silly IMO, but it was interesting nonetheless.And yeah, it's my favorite of teh three or four books I've read by him.  His other books are good, but they weren't forces of nature like this one was.Finally, one more suggestion: if you're looking for a lyric, epic, true-to-history account of the Old West, you can't go wrong by avoiding Rustler's Rhapsody, which is none of those things, but is pretty hilarious in a goofy slapstick way.Daniel</blockquote>

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