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Blood Meridian

Or the Evening Redness in the West

By Cormac McCarthy

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| Paperback | 9780679728757

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An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, 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 fortContinue

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The Way the West was Won

A wild ride in the desert following a greedy criminal and a demon with a knack for twisting truth and lies. No meaning for the riders, other than pursuing, fleeing, killing, scalping and ultimately being killed. This is how the West was won, and more than that, a parable of the passing of humankind ... (continue)

A wild ride in the desert following a greedy criminal and a demon with a knack for twisting truth and lies. No meaning for the riders, other than pursuing, fleeing, killing, scalping and ultimately being killed. This is how the West was won, and more than that, a parable of the passing of humankind on the planet leaving a trail of horror, torture and destruction. All evoked by the crystalline prose of one of the most sophisticated stylists of the English language.

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Rizzoloris said on Jun 28, 2011 | Add your feedback

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Its good... but.

Mid-nineteenth century deep south dialect coupled with lengthy descriptions (landscapes, weather conditions)proved to difficult for me to feel comfortable with. I don't doubt that it is a good story and maybe when I feel able to devote time and better concentration, I'll come back to it... but not f ... (continue)

Mid-nineteenth century deep south dialect coupled with lengthy descriptions (landscapes, weather conditions)proved to difficult for me to feel comfortable with. I don't doubt that it is a good story and maybe when I feel able to devote time and better concentration, I'll come back to it... but not for me, right now.

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mrpeterryan said on Sep 1, 2010 | Add your feedback

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Abandoned around page 150 on my first attempt at reading Blood Meridian. No harm done - even Harold Bloom gave up on his first try at page 60.
It isn't the violence that I find objectionable, but rather the prose. It is well written I suppose, but the unrelenting style makes me zone out after aroun ... (continue)

Abandoned around page 150 on my first attempt at reading Blood Meridian. No harm done - even Harold Bloom gave up on his first try at page 60.
It isn't the violence that I find objectionable, but rather the prose. It is well written I suppose, but the unrelenting style makes me zone out after around 10-15 pages of reading. I have also found it difficult to get involved in the plot.

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Jubei said on Aug 18, 2010 | Add your feedback

Too much blood

Check out what I wrote in my spanish blog: http://lunairereadings.blogspot.com/2012/01/blood-merid…
OMG: headless bodies, blood flowing like rivers, all kinds of free violence. What I was expecting? It is always the same way with this writer: violence, blood and groseness.

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ariadna73 said on Jan 25, 2012 | Add your feedback

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I saw many critics bid us readers to "persevere" through this book. And then later, when reading this novel, I start to know what "persevere" really means because this is the first novel that makes me feel physically uncomfortable...
It's such a hard read, but still, it's also a dense and well-wr ... (continue)

I saw many critics bid us readers to "persevere" through this book. And then later, when reading this novel, I start to know what "persevere" really means because this is the first novel that makes me feel physically uncomfortable...
It's such a hard read, but still, it's also a dense and well-written and very sophisticated novel. The reading process is slow, but rewarding (such as the vocabularies I check and learn from it--OK, I know I've forgotten many of them now). The prose style is simply stunning (I think one of the best parts of McCarthy is his descriptive language, especially the description of landscape). Reading it is also more like a test, a test of how many texts I've read (not many) and how familiar (oops) I am with them because once in a while something strange would suddenly pop up. Often, it turns out to be an allusion or even a quote (The Waste Land, for example). That adds the extra fun actually.

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yuuyh said on Feb 25, 2010 | Add your feedback

This was an extremely well written book. It is definitely a graphic and violent book. Unlike others i didn't find this to be his best work, but that is probably because i didn't like the topic that much. I thought The Road and No Country For Old Men were better.

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Dave Sanders said on Sep 19, 2008 | Add your feedback

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English Books
Paperback 337 Pages
Edition: 1
ISBN-10: 0679728759
ISBN-13: 9780679728757
Publisher: Vintage
Pub date: May 05, 1992
Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
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