[luckystrike]

Finished Blood Meridian a few weeks ago. If you like Faulkner or Hemingway or any of the other American authors post-1900 you should definitely pick it up. Or if you just like massive bloodshed, cowboys, or swearing. Or if you like to kill indians, then it will also be good for you.

HoL was interesting enough for me to get through the end, but I thought at it's very core it just didn't use very interesting language, and as such I didn't like it as much as some. Also, it reminded me very much of the kind of thing I would have written for creative writing class circa-10th grade (not a compliment, i guess), had the class required a 1000-page work as a final project.

Also, As I Lay Dying is basically the funniest book I've ever read. If you aren't laughing and grimacing at the plight of those miserable fools, something's wrong.

I went back recently and started re-reading some books from my childhood, including some classic Goosebumps and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark series after unearthing them in a corner of my parent's basement. Shit's weak.