I just finished reading an earlier McCarthy book at the urging of my buddy Mike Besch. Mike's one of the best-read men that I know and has turned me on to many great books. After reading The Road, I delved into Blood Meridian and have to say it is a war- and terror-filled tome where Indians certainly are not portrayed with any Hollywood-stereotype nobilities. There are scenes of death and destruction that you simply have to read to believe, and given the strangely unique style McCarthy has, I doubt anyone could make it all sound so poetic. It's like poet apocalyptic scribe sat down to craft a myth based on real events of the early 1800s at the Mexican border area of the West. McCarthy draws a fair amount of criticism from all spectrums. I can't say I agree with any of it. Folks much smarter than me all have their apparently erudite opinions. All I know is that I wish I could write like this man. I thinks he's one of the rare artists of our time.
Apparently the ol' Cormanator is a very private man. You can YouTube his interview on Oprah (she picked The Road as an Oprah Book). But you'll find more on a fan site of his at:
If you want to read up a little on the characters featured in Blood Meridian, at least what I dug up, check out this link:
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