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Friday, February 24, 2012

Sometimes

The Phantom Wagon by Salvador Dali
Sometimes a book grips me. By the throat. While I'm sleeping.

I'm reading Blood Meridian by Pulitzer prize winner Cormac McCarthy. There are scenes in this book that I can't get out of my head, and I wish I could. But that's only because they're terrifying. A bloody wedding veil. An broken ailing horse shaking its head, kept alive for who knows what heinous motive. Thinking about these scenes again, I feel the need to look over my shoulder at that desert of darkness behind us all, the one we only wish were empty.

I might not sleep much tonight but I can't stop.
Posted by DB Stewart at 8:59 PM
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15 comments:

  1. UnknownFebruary 24, 2012 at 11:05 PM

    And this, this is why I want to be a writer...

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  2. AlistairFebruary 25, 2012 at 12:15 AM

    Takes a great writer to make that happen.....

    I might seek out that one myself.

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  3. ToBlog todayFebruary 25, 2012 at 5:36 AM

    After I read terrifying passages I close the book, place a cross on it, and back away from the book slowly. But it pulls me back until I'm done and can't sleep with the lights off for months.

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  4. SultanFebruary 25, 2012 at 6:20 AM

    Great book!

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  5. PickleopeFebruary 25, 2012 at 7:13 AM

    Cormac is sooooo goooooood. One of my favorites but I do have to wait months between reading his books or else my soul and outlook for humanity would be as dark as The Road.
    (And I call him by his first name because we're close like that.)

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  6. Debra She Who SeeksFebruary 25, 2012 at 8:11 AM

    I hate images of pain and suffering that sear themselves into my brain. I'm getting too old for it.

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  7. PokerLawyerFebruary 25, 2012 at 8:50 AM

    Ditto all the comments. The Road haunts years after reading.

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  8. Al PenwasserFebruary 25, 2012 at 11:19 AM

    I haven't read "Blood Meridian" but I think I'd like it.
    I've read "The Road," though. Not terribly upbeat. But, it was very good, in an "end of the world" kind of way.

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  9. michael.offworldFebruary 25, 2012 at 12:15 PM

    His writing is so direct. No fancy showing off. Love it.

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  10. Antares CryptosFebruary 25, 2012 at 5:50 PM

    Strange coincidence, someone recommended it to me a few days ago and I'm waiting for my copy. *gulp*

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  11. wendyFebruary 25, 2012 at 6:33 PM

    Cormack McCarthy is a pretty "heavey" writer.
    I haven't read this....Hmmm, after your images, maybe I better now.
    I am a scardy cat!!!

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  12. wendyFebruary 25, 2012 at 6:34 PM

    not better now
    I meant to type better NOT

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  13. karensomethingorotherFebruary 25, 2012 at 9:09 PM

    Oh yuck--that's what "The Road" did to me. I was HORRIFIED by that book, but couldn't put it down. I'll never read it again.

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  14. ChelleFebruary 28, 2012 at 9:15 AM

    I love Cormac McCarthy. Have you read Child of God? Chilly.

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  15. Karen M. PetersonFebruary 28, 2012 at 3:43 PM

    I really *want* to read a Cormac McCarthy book, but I'm scared.

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