Re: And Cormac McCarthy, too, RIP...
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Blood Meridian is a must read. A brilliant book that, yeah in a sort of Peckinpah way, uses extreme violence to make a point. Cormac was working on a script for a film version, to be directed by John Hillcoat (the man who made The Proposition and Cormac's The Road) and hopefully the film gets made. It's kind of an impossible novel to film for a couple of reasons, the most obvious being the level of violence in the story and the second being that McCarthy creates such an amazing villain in the Judge.
I will warn that Blood Meridian has haunted my dreams since reading it years ago. The imagery and horror he paints in your mind being so incredibly vivid. Not a happy read, but a stunning book. Do not let that one slip by unread.
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Blood Meridian is a must read. A brilliant book that, yeah in a sort of Peckinpah way, uses extreme violence to make a point. Cormac was working on a script for a film version, to be directed by John Hillcoat (the man who made The Proposition and Cormac's The Road) and hopefully the film gets made. It's kind of an impossible novel to film for a couple of reasons, the most obvious being the level of violence in the story and the second being that McCarthy creates such an amazing villain in the Judge.
I will warn that Blood Meridian has haunted my dreams since reading it years ago. The imagery and horror he paints in your mind being so incredibly vivid. Not a happy read, but a stunning book. Do not let that one slip by unread.
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'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
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