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Message: [QUOTE="Lefty2one, post: 2953572, member: 1001"] Re: Blood Meridian Does the sporadic purple prose not bother anyone else? Some of the passages are ridiculous IMO. There's poetic, highbrow literature and all that but some parts of the book seem so over the top, especially since McCarthy plops them in irregularly. Every other chapter, maybe, things are going along as normal and then he drops something like this: The book is still fantastic but this takes away a little bit for me, calling it a 9/10 instead of a 10/10 isn't bad! It messes with the flow a little bit IMO, when I know I've arrived at another pretentious ultra-flowery paragraph to say something simple, then he gets back to his usual amazing writing. It's interesting reading this book after The Road, which is as sparse and simple as a novel gets. No Country For Old Men was a bit of a middle ground, and Blood Meridian is on some highbrow nonsense at times. All are great books though. [/QUOTE]