Okay my first introduction to McCarthy was Suttree. I was handed the physical book by a coworker at work. I read a bit of it and then got the audiobook and explored it a bit. I found it odd and like a movie in my mind or sentence that kept running on and on. Not bad but I had to speed it up because I was getting a bit bored with the story.

The same coworker gave me a different title that is the current book, Blood Meridian that I am reading and partly studying. I have never read anything like McCarthy. He had very loose with grammar and strange. It reminds me of a landscape painting of the wild west or mid west scenes of American Wild landscapes.

I have seen movies about his stories but his written form is strange. I feel a connection with his free style flow and none commitment formality. I’m studying the style. He had a nice poetry pose and western drawl. Hmm. It’s wild.

There is a lot of heavy poetic voice in his writing. It almost brings to my mind a picture of him sitting at his writing desk for hours on end just typing away a bit at a time with dictionary on one end of the desk and bottle of jack Daniels on the other end of the table.

He paints a very vivid dark down and dirty realistic picture of that time period of the western American experience and time in history before the west was fully won and it was born a kin to time of gun smoke and back alley business deals.

Warm Regards

GuardianDogg