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SnakeBytes - Brain Food (good reads) - Lynn Wilber - 03-14-2025 Lately I've noticed a touch of early onset senility, not only in myself, but also in some of my friends and neighbors.  I usually try to assuage my anxieties in that direction by cracking a good book and getting distracted by some scintillating prosage.  Anyways, I always thought "BLOOD MERIDIAN" was Cormac McCarthy's best effort, but I dug out and started re-reading his "SUTTREE     " and I'm not sure it's not even better.  It's damned funny and full of vigor, grand elocution, and pungent irony.  It reminds me a little of Nelson Algren or Frank Norris, but uses a much more baroque style seasoned with real down South dialog. It is full of novel use of language and I had to cool the pages of my dictionary from flipping the pages too fast. Some words he uses I could not even find.  The upshot of all this is that by noodle was so stimulated that I swear I'm at least five phlogiston units smarter than I was last week before I started reading it, and my urinary tract seems to be working a little better. It's good medicine, try it. SvH RE: SnakeBytes - Brain Food (good reads) - Tim Stokes - 03-14-2025 Loved the post. Keep them coming, Lynn.