Joe Lyon

I applaud Cormac's McCarthy's Blood Meridan as a very courageous novel that ignores conventual writing standards and trailblazes its own way through the wilderness. We've been taught to NOT have run on sentences, and to use proper dialogue tags. McCarthy ignores all these conventions and sets out on his own, turning full circle in his expertise of the English language by using the words to paint emotional images instead of adhering to standards vocabulary rules. Love that he, someone, has challenged us with just such a gritty, meaningless violent, existence. This is the way life was for those pioneers that lived in constant danger and settled the southwest.