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Read in January, 2007
This has been on my list for years now. Both David Foster Wallace and Harold Bloom—two writers who could not be more different—both worship this thing, so why not give it a whirl? Upon finishing it I immediately did some research; It turns out that most of Blood Meridian is based on true events. If so....hell, if so then I'm speechless; I was pretty naive about just how uncivilized civilized humans can be. At times (at many times) I was reading the book with jaws agape. The violence flashes ...more
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Feb 23, 2009
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Read in April, 2009
I found this book both satanic and dull until the final 100 pages. Then it became monumental. I know now the reason for its status as his masterpiece. Nobody can break your heart like McCarthy can, even when everything he writes is gauzed in the ugliness of man's basest acts. It is like reading the Bible, the Upanishads, some undulating spiritual text of sin. Blood Meridian contains some of McCarthy's finest writing - he sets aside simplicity in favor of a wordy, viscous language - as well as hi...more
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Read in July, 2007
Man, he can write!
Great prose, especially his descriptions of the barren landscapes of the West. Story-wise, though, it read like a diluted version of the Iliad; i.e. not much story to it.
Great prose, especially his descriptions of the barren landscapes of the West. Story-wise, though, it read like a diluted version of the Iliad; i.e. not much story to it.
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