Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

I'm about 100 pages into Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, and it's really good. I rarely use the cliché "impossible to put down," but it's not like I wanna sample multiple books at one time to break up the monotony, which is what I do most of the time when I'm reading: I like to multi-task my books. But I've been straight on Blood Meridian since yesterday, and I'm recommending it heartily. McCarthy's prose style is astonishing. Some sentences are paragraph length, and blood, guts, spit, flies buzzing, snot spurting, guns blazing, buzzards buzzing make up some of the intense scenes of death and decay (like an apocalypse narratives sometimes and frankly bizarre).

In any case, I also picked up a brand new copy of All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, Book 1). I'm keeping these books on my bookshelf when I've finished them. A lot of the other books I've donated or given to my students when I've finished. I'm gonna hang on to McCarthy's though. He's quite a specialist. I'm glad I started in on his stuff.