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Mike 03

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3. "Blood Meridian" by Cormac McCarthy
Sat Aug 31, 2019, 11:52 AM
Aug 2019

The first time I read BM I was so enraptured by the language that I missed a great deal. This re-reading was like reading it for the first time. But at one point I had to stop for a week and thought to myself, "Do you have to be slightly insane to write a book like this?" Finally, though, I had a sense of understanding this book, which had puzzled me for ten years.

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