Well I finished Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian. What an awesome read! Extremely brutal, but kept me entrenched all the way through. I'll probably read some more of his works, but I don't know how that one could be topped.
reading can be tough, one of my survey collegues once had problems with his blood pressure while he was reading an Andy McNabb or a Chris Ryan, two former SAS or Seals that started writing about their 'brutal' military adventures. I enjoyed most of their books.
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'Blood Meridian' is indeed brutal and extreme writing by McCarthy, but it is certainly a classic of modern American literature. Once you've read it, you will never forget it.
Judge Holden is one helluva scary but fascinating character. Heck, he's almost as smart as Kent. However, the Judge is an allegorical figure, and represents the culmination of all evils. More like TDD in that sense 😉
McCarthy is pretty good at portraying Good versus Evil. Read 'No Country for Old Men' and see the characters Llewelyn Moss and Anton Chighur for another good example.
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Well, I probably ought not to recommend the more sedate stuff that I like to read, George Simenon (in English, unfortunately for me) and Raymond Chandler.
Mark Helprins "Memoir in Antproof Case" is a good read
I recommend John Sanford and Chuck Logan....good Minnesota crime fiction.
sidetrack...fwi
On my city trip yesterday, I was told "On the Road' is being filmed
Filming has started in Montreal and then will move to New Orleans later this year and then to Mexico
I can't comprehend it if they do not include a lot of other locations.
Supposedly will be in B/W or that modern B/W that they use.
No big name male stars but the females leads will be some young popular actresses.;-)
Coppola has had the film rights for decades and no one has ever produced a screenplay and concept that he thought was fitting.
He finally turned it over to to the director/writers who did the Motorcycle Diaries a few years ago.
> sidetrack...fwi
> On my city trip yesterday, I was told "On the Road' is being filmed
> Filming has started in Montreal and then will move to New Orleans later this year and then to Mexico
> I can't comprehend it if they do not include a lot of other locations.
>
> Supposedly will be in B/W or that modern B/W that they use.
> No big name male stars but the females leads will be some young popular actresses.;-)
> Coppola has had the film rights for decades and no one has ever produced a screenplay and concept that he thought was fitting.
> He finally turned it over to to the director/writers who did the Motorcycle Diaries a few years ago.
I can't wait to see that.
I'll have to see that when it comes out, "On the Road" is one of my favorite books' I first read it when it first came out and a copy got passed around my high school. It was a sensation at the time.
Here are a few Lowell scenes; The road started here.
Also one of my favorites, way back when. The 1980 movie attempt with Nick Nolte as Dean Moriarty (based on real life Neal Cassady) was pretty uneven, though Nolte fit with his character well enough. Hopefully it isn't a book like "Fear and Loathing", where lots of people wish they could film it, and a few think they can film it, but it just can't be done. Nothing can drive you out of a theater faster than a bad film made from one of your favorite books.
Currently reading "Girl with the Dragon Tatoo" and the sequels after, then "A Farewell to Arms" (finally). After that, I think I'll take Robby's reccomendation with "Blood Meridian". But, usually, as soon as a new Sandford goes paperback, that becomes next.
The most riviting book I've read lately is God's Middle Finger by Richard Grant. Crazy stuff south of the border down Mexico way.
Now that will be interesting!
Or possibly a disaster....
I would agree that they will need more locations.
BTW... I hope it was not me that caused you to abandon your Sasquatch persona...
it also looks a little like my son in law!
yeah...or when the itch gets so bad you buy Sanford's latest in hardback!
