(urth) utterly and completely off topic

[maru dubshinki]

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