Quote Originally Posted by Cioran View Post
Isn't that lovely?

The whole book is like that, Faulkner as channeled by McCarthy. Luscious language, endlessly inventive and kudzu-like, efflorescent, hallucinatory, completely different from his later economical stuff.

Great stories, too, from the dregs. Just wait till you meet the watermelon mounter, who becomes Suttree's best friend in prison and beyond, and their madcap schemes. Which usually involve nothing more elaborate, in the end, then cadging a meal.
Thanx Cioran I'm getting through this one pretty quickly considering the size of it, McCarthy is nothing if not readable, he makes these hopeless characters fascinating, the way he focuses on them and the way he uses this focus (of which there has been some interesting thoughts on here). Excellent stuff!