"tactful" = 'tactical'?

[Jonathan Lighter]

Not at all. _Blood Meridian_ made me sick. Think _American Psycho_ without
the sense of incongruity.

More pointlessly "distressing" than any of the war novels I've been
immersed in.

JL


On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:

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> Google News gives (verbatim?) an item from _GQ_, "10 Books from the 21st
> Century Every Man Should Read."  Cormac McCathry's novel _The Road_ is
> praised "for the sheer tactful feat of turning a post-apocalyptic
> skin-crawler into . . . a critical stick of dynamite . . . ."
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> A personal side note:  I found that novel so utterly distressing that I
> cannnot reread it or see the movie based on it!  Must be a father thing . .
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