Greatest Post-War American Novel

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Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy?

Is Judge Holden our equivalent of Captain Ahab?

Critics have compared Cormac McCarthy's nightmarish yet beautifully written adventure masterpiece, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West, with the best works of Dante, Poe, De Sade, Melville, Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor and William Styron. The critic Harold Bloom, among others, has declared it one of the greatest novels of the Twentieth Century, and perhaps the greatest by a living American writer. Critics cite its magnificent language, its uncompromising representation of a crucial period of American history, and its unapologetic, bleak vision of the inevitability of suffering and violence.

http://www.cormacmccarthy.com/works/bloodmeridian.htm

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Critics have compared Cormac McCarthy's nightmarish yet beautifully written adventure masterpiece, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West, with the best works of Dante, Poe, De Sade, Melville, Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor and William Styron.

That is a little like comparing [name your presidential act] with the greatest accomplishments of Lincoln, Francois Mitterand, and Warren G. Harding.

[Corlyss_D]

Dante, Poe, De Sade, Melville, Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor and William Styron.

Somehow I can't imagine Dante being menitioned in the same breath with the rest of those scribblers, much less Cormac McCarthy, unless the Dante in question is a linebacker and the rest are teammates.

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Dante, Poe, De Sade, Melville, Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor and William Styron.

Somehow I can't imagine Dante being menitioned in the same breath with the rest of those scribblers, much less Cormac McCarthy, unless the Dante in question is a linebacker and the rest are teammates.

So Melville and Faulkner are not in the same league with Dante? I wonder who would be then.

[Corlyss_D]

Dante, Poe, De Sade, Melville, Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor and William Styron.

Somehow I can't imagine Dante being menitioned in the same breath with the rest of those scribblers, much less Cormac McCarthy, unless the Dante in question is a linebacker and the rest are teammates.

So Melville and Faulkner are not in the same league with Dante? I wonder who would be then.

You're kidding right?

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Dante, Poe, De Sade, Melville, Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor and William Styron.

Somehow I can't imagine Dante being menitioned in the same breath with the rest of those scribblers, much less Cormac McCarthy, unless the Dante in question is a linebacker and the rest are teammates.

So Melville and Faulkner are not in the same league with Dante? I wonder who would be then.

You're kidding right?

No, unless you also think Perotin or Machaut are superior to Mozart or Beethoven

[Corlyss_D]

Dante, Poe, De Sade, Melville, Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor and William Styron.

Somehow I can't imagine Dante being menitioned in the same breath with the rest of those scribblers, much less Cormac McCarthy, unless the Dante in question is a linebacker and the rest are teammates.

So Melville and Faulkner are not in the same league with Dante? I wonder who would be then.

You're kidding right?

No,

Yes you are. You're pullin' our collective chains here.

unless you also think Perotin or Machaut are superior to Mozart or Beethoven

Not Mozart, but certainly Beethoven.

[Ralph]

Dante, Poe, De Sade, Melville, Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor and William Styron.

Somehow I can't imagine Dante being menitioned in the same breath with the rest of those scribblers, much less Cormac McCarthy, unless the Dante in question is a linebacker and the rest are teammates.

So Melville and Faulkner are not in the same league with Dante? I wonder who would be then.

*****

For Corlyss the leading contender would certainly be Danielle Steele.

[Corlyss_D]

For Corlyss the leading contender would certainly be Danielle Steele.

Eeeeyyyyyyeeeeewwwwww! Yuck! Get it away from me.

[Ralph]

For Corlyss the leading contender would certainly be Danielle Steele.

Eeeeyyyyyyeeeeewwwwww! Yuck! Get it away from me.

*****

Grace Metalious (phonetic)?

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John Grisham or Dan Brown perhaps?

[Ralph]

John Grisham or Dan Brown perhaps?

*****

Don't kid yourself. When the sun goes down over the desert and the curtains are drawn, Corlyss is a Chick Lit Lover.