Twelve kinds of taste
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Fiction, Glanton Gang, Outlaws, Teenage boys
An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian brilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the "wild west." Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.
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Bleak, epic, prestige and overwhelming.
15 profiled raters. Loved most by The Provocateurs; disliked most by The Comfort Seekers.
We read them all: the case for is ruthless_ruth's, funniest is viktor_v's. Marked below.
The judge is the most frightening character in American fiction and he is barely a character; he is weather. I read it in a week and slept badly for two.
The scalp-hunters ride and the judge dances and there is no moral and that is the moral. The most beautiful prose ever wrapped around the worst things.
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"BLOOD MERIDIAN'' comes at the reader like a slap in the face, an affront that asks us to endure a vision of the Old West full of charred human skulls, blood-soaked scalps, a tree hung with the bodies of dead infants. But while Cormac McCarthy's fifth novel is hard to get through, it is harder to ignore. Any page of h…
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On Open Library, 44 have read it and 994 want to.
“Thirty years ago, if you’d asked someone to name the most important writers in America, Cormac McCarthy would not have been one of them.”
Cormac McCarthy (born Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr.) is an American writer who has written twelve novels, two plays, five screenplays, and three short stories, spanning the Western and postapocalyptic genres. He is known for his graphic depictions of violence and his unique writing style, recognizable by a sparse use of punctuation and attribution. McCarthy is widely regarded as one of the greatest contemporary American writers.
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