Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
All the Pretty HorsesA few years ago I hear about the now "scuppered" The Road -- "the man", "the boy", the bleakness and violence, etc. Actually with Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses and No Country for Old Men and on I can imagine a quadrant with an axis of violence and an axis of roving agents of violent evil. McCarthy's output arises from bleak landscapes and crowds into on small area of a quadrant. I am sure I will enjoy reading more throughout my life and look forward to more film adaptations, but it no longer holds much urgency for me.
On this re-reading, the obese bald judge still sticks out in his dancing fiddling, hands-on gunpowder making, and more and he rather reminds me of Oscar Zeta "Brown Buffalo" Acosta. In this audio book, the narrator voices the judge with a hint of Orson Welles, which I think is great.
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