false 28716 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1202759784m/28716.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1202759784s/28716.jpg 394535 22 1065465 book 1985 Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West total:8465|5:4558|4:2221|3:1069|2:413|1:204| 8465 35911 13267 1562 4178 4.00 104444 20904 6114683 373817 394535 0679728759 9780679728757 1443 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174413525m/394535.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174413525s/394535.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394535.Blood_Meridian_Or_the_Evening_Redness_in_the_West 4.24 7842 Blood Meridianbrilliantly 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.]]> 1985 5 26 false Sat Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 1995 Wed Sep 12 15:45:38 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 10:17:45 -0800 2009 Blood Meridian is unquestionably the most violent novel I’ve ever read. It’s also one of the best.

For those who would consider that a turn-off, I offer this caveat:
For the overwhelming majority of fiction that involves a lot of violence, the violence itself...more...]]> 5873621 351034 394535 0679728759 9780679728757 1443 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174413525m/394535.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174413525s/394535.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394535.Blood_Meridian_Or_the_Evening_Redness_in_the_West 4.24 8465 Blood Meridianbrilliantly 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.]]> 1985 2 16 false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 07 18:54:43 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 09:30:52 -0800 2009
This book is well written. If I'm a 11...more...]]> 9552786 210421 394535 0679728759 9780679728757 1443 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174413525m/394535.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174413525s/394535.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394535.Blood_Meridian_Or_the_Evening_Redness_in_the_West 4.24 8465 Blood Meridianbrilliantly 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.]]> 1985 3 17 false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Nov 26 08:20:30 -0800 2007 Tue Dec 04 18:34:57 -0800 2007 The Crossing, McCarthy proves he can write about about the travels of a wolf in a poetic and engaging way. In Blood Meridian McCarthy writes about three or four wolves, calls them humans - those characters he bothers to name at all - and shows that with enough talent and ...more...]]> 1559164 107855 394535 0679728759 9780679728757 1443 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174413525m/394535.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174413525s/394535.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394535.Blood_Meridian_Or_the_Evening_Redness_in_the_West 4.24 8465 Blood Meridianbrilliantly 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.]]> 1985 5 9 false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu May 31 08:56:41 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 20:25:50 -0800 2009
There are two major aspects I'd like to touch on with this book:

1) Prose. McCarthy is one of those rare literary magicians who, l...more...]]> 3997107 220080 394535 0679728759 9780679728757 1443 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174413525m/394535.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174413525s/394535.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394535.Blood_Meridian_Or_the_Evening_Redness_in_the_West 4.24 8465 Blood Meridianbrilliantly 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.]]> 1985 5 7 false Sun May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Thu Aug 02 19:05:10 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 03:29:45 -0800 2009
Cormac McCarthy has a way with words that is inimitable and majestic. It seems as though every word is chosen with a purpose. ...more...]]> 1881230 127574 394535 0679728759 9780679728757 1443 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174413525m/394535.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174413525s/394535.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394535.Blood_Meridian_Or_the_Evening_Redness_in_the_West 4.24 8465 Blood Meridianbrilliantly 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.]]> 1985 5 7 false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 12 08:55:37 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 21:19:04 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3746518 233448 394535 0679728759 9780679728757 1443 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174413525m/394535.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174413525s/394535.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394535.Blood_Meridian_Or_the_Evening_Redness_in_the_West 4.24 8465 Blood Meridianbrilliantly 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.]]> 1985 2 6 false Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sun Jul 29 11:27:21 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 02:42:45 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1376073 94053 394535 0679728759 9780679728757 1443 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174413525m/394535.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174413525s/394535.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394535.Blood_Meridian_Or_the_Evening_Redness_in_the_West 4.24 8465 Blood Meridianbrilliantly 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.]]> 1985 5 5 false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue May 22 19:17:59 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 19:54:56 -0800 2009 This book is so difficult to describe. Bare? Dismal? Hopeless? no, because those words imply ineffectiveness, which McCarthy's writing most certainly does not radiate.
The characters are at the same time distant and fully formed - we never see their thoughts, ye...more...]]> 30306993 863801 394535 0679728759 9780679728757 1443 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174413525m/394535.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174413525s/394535.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394535.Blood_Meridian_Or_the_Evening_Redness_in_the_West 4.24 8465 Blood Meridianbrilliantly 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.]]> 1985 5 6 false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 16 09:29:12 -0700 2008 Thu Nov 20 12:52:45 -0800 2008
Some claim to have read this book more than 30 times. I can see why. But this is my first Cormac McCarthy novel and I need a long rest. It took me three years before I had the energy to read Moby Dick a second time. Moby Dick and Ahab, an apt comparison as both novels are d...more...]]> 24019145 341354 394535 0679728759 9780679728757 1443 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174413525m/394535.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174413525s/394535.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394535.Blood_Meridian_Or_the_Evening_Redness_in_the_West 4.24 8465 Blood Meridianbrilliantly 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.]]> 1985 1 6 false Sun Jun 08 18:04:09 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 08 18:20:00 -0700 2008 more...]]> 15127435 766524 394535 0679728759 9780679728757 1443 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174413525m/394535.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174413525s/394535.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394535.Blood_Meridian_Or_the_Evening_Redness_in_the_West 4.24 8465 Blood Meridianbrilliantly 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.]]> 1985 5 4 false Mon Jul 31 00:00:00 -0700 2000 Mon Feb 11 06:25:12 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 11 06:25:12 -0800 2008
The whole idea of "the great american novel" really kind of misses the point because we have taken the original meaning of it and twisted it. The "great american novel" should probably t...more...]]> 2356284 150838 394535 0679728759 9780679728757 1443 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174413525m/394535.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174413525s/394535.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394535.Blood_Meridian_Or_the_Evening_Redness_in_the_West 4.24 8465 Blood Meridianbrilliantly 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.]]> 1985 5 3 false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 25 08:01:11 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 24 12:06:38 -0700 2007
"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 "wi...more...]]> 28697582 739464 394535 0679728759 9780679728757 1443 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174413525m/394535.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174413525s/394535.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394535.Blood_Meridian_Or_the_Evening_Redness_in_the_West 4.24 8465 Blood Meridianbrilliantly 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.]]> 1985 2 3 false Sun Aug 31 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 29 20:08:21 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 08 15:36:50 -0700 2008 Blood Meridian doesn’t have a lot of the indicators you get used to in reading a novel. By ‘indicators’ I mean the standards that readers come to rely on—plot, characters, etc. Though these aspects are intact, their path isn’t so obvious, so read w...more...]]> 14813736 569190 394535 0679728759 9780679728757 1443 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174413525m/394535.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174413525s/394535.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394535.Blood_Meridian_Or_the_Evening_Redness_in_the_West 4.24 8465 Blood Meridianbrilliantly 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.]]> 1985 5 2 false Wed Mar 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Feb 07 08:12:38 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 30 08:45:12 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4759977 137802 394535 0679728759 9780679728757 1443 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174413525m/394535.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174413525s/394535.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394535.Blood_Meridian_Or_the_Evening_Redness_in_the_West 4.24 8465 Blood Meridianbrilliantly 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.]]> 1985 2 2 false Sun Aug 19 04:35:45 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 05:52:35 -0800 2009 more...]]> 45946204 337197 394535 0679728759 9780679728757 1443 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174413525m/394535.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174413525s/394535.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394535.Blood_Meridian_Or_the_Evening_Redness_in_the_West 4.24 8465 Blood Meridianbrilliantly 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.]]> 1985 4 2 false Wed Feb 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 11:32:03 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 13:47:08 -0800 2009
This is a great piece of historical fiction. It mostly follows the Glanton Gang, who started off as scalphunters but ended up basically killing everyone that happened to cross their path. Easily the most violent novel I've ever read and the fa...more...]]> 7497725 464314 394535 0679728759 9780679728757 1443 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174413525m/394535.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174413525s/394535.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394535.Blood_Meridian_Or_the_Evening_Redness_in_the_West 4.24 8465 Blood Meridianbrilliantly 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.]]> 1985 5 3 false Tue Oct 09 15:05:20 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 09 15:08:17 -0700 2007
I finished th...more...]]> 68538330 2110350 394535 0679728759 9780679728757 1443 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174413525m/394535.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174413525s/394535.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394535.Blood_Meridian_Or_the_Evening_Redness_in_the_West 4.24 8465 Blood Meridianbrilliantly 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.]]> 1985 5 2 false Sun Aug 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 05:49:49 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 15:40:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 75536297 649064 394535 0679728759 9780679728757 1443 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174413525m/394535.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174413525s/394535.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394535.Blood_Meridian_Or_the_Evening_Redness_in_the_West 4.24 8465 Blood Meridianbrilliantly 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.]]> 1985 4 1 false Tue Nov 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Oct 23 17:00:56 -0700 2009 Fri Nov 13 11:35:26 -0800 2009 War of a Thousand Deserts...more...]]> 58120017 1232712 394535 0679728759 9780679728757 1443 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174413525m/394535.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174413525s/394535.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394535.Blood_Meridian_Or_the_Evening_Redness_in_the_West 4.24 8465 Blood Meridianbrilliantly 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.]]> 1985 3 1 false Mon Jun 01 18:26:40 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 18:23:21 -0700 2009 Blood Meridian. And at a little over three hundred pages, it took me a long time to read.

Maybe it w...more...]]> 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=28716