Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Blood Meridian finale...whoo hoo

Never read a Cormac McCarthy book or saw one of his films. Tyler T. was adamant..this is a great book. Well..it is written with a style that is engaging, and different than Ive ever read. Mc book is a wealth of dictionary lookups..so many that if you wrote down every word you didn't understand .then most of your time would have been spent on looking up words. Mc combined Texas history with fiction. This was interesting. I guess there really was a judge with the Glanton gang in Texas history. Most of the historical lookups I found were in the Spanish conversion of English. As far as the plot ...I was struct...no I was stuck in the old story mantra..good versus evil. I expected the Kid to eventually show some sort of moral value that most of the human race buys in to. I was waiting for the kid" to come thru for me...he almost did in one scene...but he didn't. The Judge was true to his character, he was evil til the end..and beyond. The Kid is following him to Hell. True descriptive evil. I followed this book by watching,"No country for old men", yikes this author truly knows how to describe evil. His character Anton Chigurh was a convincing character. Like the Judge in the Glanton gang, he epitomizes (sp) evil. Chigurh has the moral universe his own...and he's convinced and convincing it is right. A sociopath probably. I'm sure he will be heading very very very south in the end. Woody Harrelsons acting is some of best since Brando. A five minute seen where he is sitting in a chair facing Chigurh should have won him an Oscar!!..in my opinion. I have a new poem I'd like to share. Can't find an attachment function...won't cut and paste..I"m.....see ya.Craig

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