I have read Suttree. It's great. It's right up there with Blood Meridian as my favorite Cormac McCarthy book.
Yeah it's one of my favourites too. I love the way he can describe mundane things but the way he phrases stuff makes it seem magical. Like the part in Blood Meridian where they're riding through the desert and the lightning's striking all around.
Have you got a least favourite McCarthy book?
I read Child of God about a year ago and man, I loved it but I felt like I had to take a shower after finishing it. I read it in two sittings and just being in that world for that amount of time was a little too much.
The first one I ever read was No Country, right after I saw the movie which I was just so struck with, but in retrospect I think it's one of my least favourite of his books. It's still great, and after seeing the movie again recently I was really impressed by how well the Coens adapted the feel his prose into film (if that makes any sense), but it's just not as engaging or as mythic-feeling to me.