Discussion - Week One - Blood Meridian Chap I - VIII

[Jim]

This discussion covers Chapter I – VIII, pg. 3 – 107


See the child.

[Zadignose]

Wait, I thought pilot bread may have been mentioned in The Dying Grass too... maybe... Guess it's time to reread the whole book cover-to-cover until I find it (no search function in my paper book).

[Jim]

Zadignose wrote: "Wait, I thought pilot bread may have been mentioned in The Dying Grass too... maybe... Guess it's time to reread the whole book cover-to-cover until I find it (no search function in my paper book)."

Speaking of Dying Grass, if you have the time, you might enjoy dipping into Blood Meridian. The first encounter with a band of marauding Indians was pretty intense!

[mkfs]

If you want a good look at the hoglegs that Glanton's men were issued, check out a video of test-firing the Uberti replica of the rather storied 1847 Walker revolver.


Not terribly interested in re-reading Blood Meridian so soon -- I might jump in for some discussion of the ending.

[mkfs]

Cphe wrote: "Has anyone else had difficulty working out who is actually speaking when there is "dialogue" It's a tad confusing to me at times."

Yeah, that was probably what I disliked most when reading this last year. The style works well in something like The Road, where the possible number of speakers is at most 2. Once you start having a bunch of similarly-gruff guys gathered around a fire or huddled in a gulch, it becomes an impediment.

[Doubledf99.99]

Zadignose wrote: "Wait, I thought pilot bread may have been mentioned in The Dying Grass too... maybe... Guess it's time to reread the whole book cover-to-cover until I find it (no search function in my paper book)."

Pilot Bread was mentioned numerous times in The Dying Grass, the first instance on page 165..

[Zadignose]

Thanks, I was pretty sure, but then I wondered if I was substituting it for some other word in my memory.