While I agree with Kevin's initial post to a certain degree,
I don't think BLOOD MERIDIAN the novel belongs here. It's
more like a fictionalized account of an actual genocide,
except as told by the perpetrators. In a sense, it has more
in common with Dee Brown's BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE or
Adam Hochschild's KING LEOPOLD'S GHOST than any fiction. Both
of those works are highly recommended, btw.
On the other hand, an adaption of BLOOD MERIDIAN, if it turns
out to be a hit movie, may actually have the effect that Jack
fears. Kinda like A CLOCKWORK ORANGE way back when.
From:
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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Jack Bludis
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Neo-Nah
[.] I'm not sure many reader's are "getting off on it." But
I've read enough about Cormac McCarthy's *Blood Meridian*
here to let me know that I don't want to read it. That in
spite of liking *No Country for Old Men* and thinking
that
*The Road.* is the best book I've read since college.
If some of the things mentioned here with *Blood Meridian* go
to film, I supsect we'll have a spate of copycat events with
the criminal element of society.
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