BLOOD MERIDIAN
keen to follow the kid / strong rootless drifting / big country beautifully realised / but the kid disappears in a rockfall of nameless characters / then i liked it again - the country is a powerful character / then i was bored for ages / then the kid is back ! gets a weird earless friend / then i'm bored again for ages / towards the end i like it again because i'm near the end but what the hell is happening ? sense of missing the point / being taken for a clever ride / the judge is a classic character creation tho / i picture an epic film looking good on paper but a controversial five hour cut / top heavy / ambitious and NOT bad but wheres the SOUL ? style and content battle for clever points and the reader is left in the cold . . .
whereas
SERENADE
is just plain pure poetry set literally to music
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