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Everything that's important goes on in the darkness, no doubt about it. We never know anyone's real inside story.

I do believe Sergio Leone was inspired by this when he made The Good The Bad and the Ugly

This is a great novel. But Celine is such a cynical man. He acts like he is the only cynical man in the world.

"I believed in her body, I didn't believe in her soul. I thought of Lola as a charming goldbrick, miles away from the war, miles away from life."

HAHAHAHAHA! what the hell?

"The little that had been left in 1914, people were ashamed of now. Everything you touched was phony, the sugar, the aeroplanes, the shoes, the jam, the photographs ... Everything you read, swallowed, sucked, admired, proclaimed, refuted, defended was made up of hateridden myths and grinning masquerades, phony to the hilt. The mania for telling lies and believing them is as contagious as the itch"

"The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time."

"The soul is the body's vanity and pleasure as long as the body's in good health, but it's also the urge to escape from the body as soon as the body is sick or things are going badly. Of the two poses, you take the one that suits you best at the moment, and that's all there is to it! "

"If you wanted to be respected and looked up to, you had to hurry up quick and pal up with the civilians, because they were becoming more and more vicious as the war went on. I saw that as soon as I got back to Paris. It also became clear to me that the women had ants in their pants and that the old men were talking big, and their fingers were all over the place, in assholes, in pockets ....."

How little I remember of novel. Bardamu and Robinson, two French soldiers are so desolate, they want to be captured by the Germans. But the Germans do not want them.

This is one weird, slow but interesting novel.

This is one sleazy novel.

This is so well plotted. Stark is a clever and witty writer.

Damn! Too many characters. I wish it was a book with Parker and cohorts doing a heist.

Damn! Why the hell did I stop reading these Parker novels? This one is fucking good so far.

Greene conjures up sweet but stinging melancholy so effortlessly.

Damn, the battle scenes are terrific. I am getting used to McCarthy as I progress. He is not an easy writer. This is all leading up to a very violent finale. It is not a typical coming of age novel. It is not anything like the books I have read. It is more like the movies that I have watched.

It is one of those novels where you never really feel comfortable as a reader. You never really get the measure of Blood Meridian. The detailed, beautiful descriptions of grotesque landscapes, adorned with similies and obscure references. You miss a line and you suddenly don't know what's going on. My social media addled brain is getting a furious workout.

The rare book where the writer doesn't seem to care much about the characters. Even the nature that he describes is ghoulish and unbearable.

This is the kind of book that should be made into a film by Francis Ford Coppola. It requires the grandeur, pomposity and attention to detail of APOCALYPSE NOW.