I remember this one fondly, but it was most likely a right place, right time sort of situation. There are a few passages, like you mention, that are really, really good. The final scene being one of them.
You did an honest job of scoring up this one. I never knew it was written over 20 years, and I agree that it definitely reads like it was an on and off project. But even lower ranking McCarthy is still a head above most other novelists.
And as a check in - how you doing? You getting a tired of McCarthy yet? Still got a ways to go!
Just finished Suttree this morning and I thinkninfelt much the same as you. The book just meanders...and then ends. Directionless and seemingly purposeless, it arrives, lingers, and then leaves without attempting to even really leave an impression.
It does feel like McCarthy at his funniest and most lyrical, but it is a very strange book that I'm glad to be done with.
Excited for Blood Meridien, which I read back in like 2006 or something.
I remember this one fondly, but it was most likely a right place, right time sort of situation. There are a few passages, like you mention, that are really, really good. The final scene being one of them.
You did an honest job of scoring up this one. I never knew it was written over 20 years, and I agree that it definitely reads like it was an on and off project. But even lower ranking McCarthy is still a head above most other novelists.
And as a check in - how you doing? You getting a tired of McCarthy yet? Still got a ways to go!
Just finished Suttree this morning and I thinkninfelt much the same as you. The book just meanders...and then ends. Directionless and seemingly purposeless, it arrives, lingers, and then leaves without attempting to even really leave an impression.
It does feel like McCarthy at his funniest and most lyrical, but it is a very strange book that I'm glad to be done with.
Excited for Blood Meridien, which I read back in like 2006 or something.