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Hopefully the movie will be better than the book.

Posted by Mr. Poe | October 9, 2007 4:19 PM
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It's nice that he got an SF book into Oprahs Book club.

Posted by The Baron | October 9, 2007 4:23 PM
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I wasn't crazy about that book either, but I love the Coen brothers and Javier Bardem is a wonder. I think this is only his 2nd Hollywood film (with "Before Night Falls" being his first.) Am I right?

Anyhoo, I like the older Cormac McCarthy books much more, when he was still trying to be Wm. Faulkner and before he decided to write for the movies. "Outer Dark" is a terrifying story of love and incest. Like Faulkner vs. Stephen King. "Suttree" is plain gorgeous. Well drawn Southern misfits and high weirdness. You know what he’s got in that sack?

Posted by Gurldoggie | October 9, 2007 5:09 PM
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@3

"I wasn't crazy about that book either, but I love the Coen brothers and Javier Bardem is a wonder."

100% agree, although I didn't finish the book. Sigh. I tried.

"I think this is only his 2nd Hollywood film (with "Before Night Falls" being his first.) Am I right?"

Well I wouldn't consider Before Night Falls a 'Hollywood film', and no. He was in Collateral, playing the dude Cruise sent Foxx to talk too in order to retrieve the lost info on who to kill for the night. He was also in Goya's Ghosts, which was fucking boring as hell.

So technically this is his second 'Hollywood' film. By that I mean it's his second film that will land in at least 3,000 screens.

Posted by Mr. Poe | October 9, 2007 5:21 PM
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Gurldoggie,

I'm pretty sure its his 4th Hollywood film, actually, if you count his cameo in Collateral (wherein he knocks the everloving hell out a monologue about Santa Claus). Anyway, agreed with you on McCarthy's earlier stuff. I'm already hankering for an Outer Dark reread.

Posted by Andrew Wright | October 9, 2007 5:21 PM
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"Anybody else need a cigarette?"

Smoking is bad, Meatwad.

Posted by Frylock | October 9, 2007 9:39 PM
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the book read like a screen play. I bet you it's going to be a blast.

Posted by tim | October 9, 2007 10:19 PM
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McCarthy's The Road is the most harrowing thing I have read in years. Wonderful and wrenching, it left me in tears. I have not read Blood Meridian, but this quote makes me want to although it also reads a bit like Larry McMurtry at his most self-indulgent, NTTAWWT I suppose. That the Coen Brothers are directing a movie makes me even happier.

Posted by JSB | October 9, 2007 10:20 PM

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