A Rabid Dog

I was emailing with some friends recently about Cormac McCarthy, who doesn't do a lot for me personally. His writing is good enough but not a lot seems to happen in his important novels - and I'm always on the look out for symbolism! IMO, his more recent work is more entertaining (if you could call the brutal realism of The Road that) if only because the plot is more up front. Anyways, I enjoyed what this blog had to say about Blood Meridian:

I think you need to have read quite a bit of contemporary fiction to appreciate rare his talent is for writing beautifully about horrible things. This book’s the literary equivalent of a rabid dog.