Recently acquired a couple of novels to be added to the TBR file:
1. Dusty Richards' Ambush Valley, A "ride into an unforgettable tale of valiant courage and bloody conflict" it says on the back cover of the Pinnacle paperback. If it's as good as his Texas Blood Feud,
it'll be mighty fine reading.
2. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. This will be the first book by McCarthy that I will be reading and it sounds like a good one. Some of the bloggers have mentioned it as being one of the best, albeit bloodiest, novels that they've read. If it lives up to its billing: "seems to me clearly the major esthetic achievement of any living American writer" so says Harold Bloom of The New York Observer. Heavy praise, indeed, and I will see if it lives up to it in my estimation.
Blood Meridian is certainly a dramatic title. Probably not a book I'd enjoy though.
ReplyDeleteFrom the comments, it must be pretty darn bloody and you have to have a taste for this kind of fiction.
DeleteBlood Meridian was quite possibly the goriest book I've ever read.
ReplyDeleteThe critics praise it highly, but I'll withhold my judgement for now, at least until I get it read.
DeleteNever got through, Blood Meridian, it's beyond me how it is considered a western classic. It is definitely a book every fan of the western genre should try but not enough story and too much blood and gore for me. On the other hand I have not read a Dusty Richards novel that I didn't enjoy, great stories.
ReplyDeleteI will give it a try and see how far I get. Yep, I like Dusty.
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