utterly and completely off topic

maru dubshinki · 03 Aug 2006, 00:19 · from 2006-August.txt.gz

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From: marudubshinki at gmail.com (maru dubshinki)
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 20:19:33 -0400
Subject: (urth) utterly and completely off topic
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On 8/1/06, don doggett <kingwukong at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've just finished reading Blood Meridian by Cormac
> McCarthy and I wish to express that it is one of the
> finest modern novels I have ever read, neck and neck
> w/ BotNS and Tim Obrien's The Things They Carried. It
> is also quite possibly the most violent literary book
> ever written. Incredible.
>
> Don

I have to ask, why you think it is so marvelous? I read that just last
year, and I remember thinking in incomprehension that the judge was a
marvelous character, but that the rest seemed pretty pointless and
gratuitious (Harold Bloom's criticism notwithstanding).

~maru

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