Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West | 
panNever visited a book three times but this one I had to in order to finish it. I didn‘t like it. I hated the writing style and the violence almost seemed gratuitous. I couldn‘t keep track of the characters and for the life of me I couldn‘t tell you what the plot is. This may be the last time I read a book based upon friends telling me it‘s a must read and it‘s a classic.
panThis book is probably the worst book I have ever read. It usually takes me 4 weeks or less to finish a book and it took me 4 months to finish this one. It was so confusing, I can‘t remember it having a plot and I wouldn‘t be able to explain to someone what this book is all about. Western is really not my genre and I‘ve learned my lesson, I‘ll continue to stick to the genres I like.
However, I must say, Cormac‘s descriptive writing is very good.
pick5 stars-for the stupendous writing and the sheer impact.🏜
bailedDNF. I should've stopped when I got to the
"tree of dead babies." But I had to be stubborn
and get to p100. There has never been a book
that is more NOT for me than this book.
so-soI never really got into the writing style of this book, so I found it hard to follow. Lots of brutal violence, so if your not into that I would not recommend you attempt this. Maybe I'll try an audio reread down the road. #100EssentialNovels
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Profound! But please do not imitate the characters.
Who else is getting blue balls waiting for The Passenger to come out? 🥴
“Your heart‘s desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.”
pickMy boyfriend got me this book as a late Christmas gift and I‘ll be honest, at first I was annoyed with the writing style. Lack of punctuation and almost Stephen King type descriptions it felt long winded, but it was absolutely a page turner. Small details that are used later and descriptions that haunt. I loved it.
My boyfriend and I did a book exchange for a late Christmas thing. It was to be a book that either we love or we knew they‘d love and this was what he chose for me. I can‘t wait to start dreading it !
I'm happy with my reading progress this year, so much better than last year! 😃🔖
My Top-5 of the year is coming soon! 📚✅
Did you have a particular book that stood out among the rest of your 2020 reads?
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1.) He's just a great, great writer and I thoroughly enjoy his books; they're so easy to read and always impact me somehow.
2.) I'd say The Hobbit is a big comfort read for me, I've read it quite a few times; it's easy reading and pure escapism - best to be read in bed next to candlelight with tea. 🕯☕
3.) Perfect movie adaptations? (Especially the short story adaptations of Stephen King's work) 📼
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gruesomely beautiful. gorgeously brutal.
this took me a while to read because i found myself stopping to marvel at mccarthy's language so often.
1.) Horror! 💀 Why? Because I started off reading with 'salems Lot by Stephen King around 1999-2000 and that's where my love of reading began. I tend to enjoy horror novels more than any other books because I'm always looking for my next scare! 👻
2.) My favourite book series is The Dark Tower because I think it's one of the best things I've ever came across in my life, it's just everything. 🥀
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pick"This desert upon which so many have been broken is vast and calls for largeness of heart but it is ultimately empty. It is hard, it is barren. It's very nature is stone." This book is brutal.
#Popsugarchallenge2020 A Western
pickI love how Cormac McCarthy describes the desert and how he uses his words to really get us there. My favourite is still All The Pretty Horses, but I also had this “deserted“ feeling while reading this book. Be careful: this really is a bloody book, where different kinds of slaughter take place. Sadly, based on true events...
Me: I don't have the time and the money for swaps this year. Also, I have enough unread books here. I'm fine with that.
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As advertised....This novel is extremely dense, and it‘s slow moving at times, like a company of killers plodding through a dessert wasteland.... well, it‘s exactly like that. At other times, it‘s bloody, violent, and cruel. There‘s many types of beasts, thousands of mules (dead, alive, and at various stages of decomposition), and a whole hell lot of riding and moving on. Not for the casual reader. Overall rating: 4.25 stars
A dude and his criminal friends get into shenanigans in the desert. The shenanigans typically cause death. A naked guy dances in the end.
“Deployed upon that plain they moved in a constant elision, ordained agents of the actual dividing out the world which they encountered and leaving what had been and what would never be alone extinguished on the ground behind them. Spectre horsemen, pale with dust, anonymous in the crenellated heat. Above all else, they appeared wholly at venture, primal, provisional, devoid of order.”
Hanging in the hometown of McCarthy this weekend for the Big Ears Music Festival.
“And so these parties divided upon that midnight plain, each passing back the way the other had come, pursuing as all travelers must inversions without end upon other men‘s journeys.”
“For this will to deceive that is in things luminous may manifest itself likewise in retrospect and so by sleight of some fixed part of a journey already accomplished may also post men to fraudulent destinies.”
“The judge smiled.
Books lie, he said.
God dont lie.
No, said the judge. He does not. And these are his words.
He held up a chunk of rock.
He speaks in stones and trees, the bones of things.“
“Far out on the desert to the north dustspouts rose wobbling and augured the earth and some said they‘d heard of pilgrims borne aloft like dervishes in those mindless coils to be dropped broken and bleeding upon the desert again and there perhaps to watch the thing that had destroyed them lurch onward like some drunken djinn and resolve itself once more into the elements from which it sprang.“
“[He] cried out what it seemed he himself would not hear, a howl of such outrage as to stitch a caesura in the pulsebeat of the world. But the kid only spat into the darkness of the space between them. I know your kind, he said. What‘s wrong with you is wrong all the way through you.”
“Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot he deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their meaning.”
“[T]hey rode out of that vanished sea like burnt phantoms [...] and there began to appear above them in the dawn-broached sky a hellish likeness of their ranks rising huge and inverted [...] the howling antiwarriors pendant from their mounts immense and chimeric and the high wild cries carrying that flat and barren pan like the cries of souls broke through some misweave in the weft of things into the world below.”
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If Faulkner wrote Revelations
1) Cormac McCarthy
2) Blood Meridian. Or The Road. Or Blindness. It depends on the day.
3) The Broken Earth trilogy by N.K. Jemisen
4) Sci-fi, horror, dystopia, science nonfiction, history, space stuff, true crime
5) Romance, historical fiction. Basically any story about normal stuff.
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This is scratching some type of itch for me, goddamn.
"The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate."
pickI am such a fan of McCarthy‘s writing style. His use of language is stunning. I love his imagery. That being said, this book is a fighter. I constantly had to reread entire pages. The story is secondary to his use of language to me. The sparse dialogue may be a turn off for some people but I‘ve always enjoyed it in his works. I‘ll reread this one again soon because I know I missed a ton of symbolism.
pickBlood Meridian is a relentless, bleak, blood-soaked novel. It is also one of the most beautiful novels I‘ve ever read. Not a read for the faint hearted, McCarthy commands a lot of his reader here. Both content and style mean that this is not easy reading, but as always McCarthy is the master and I am in awe. #indiebuddyreads
“The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But the man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate.”
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Multiple 5⭐️ reads this month - Blood Meridian, Born a Crime and Wind in the Willows ( yes that is quite a range ! ). Two very interesting debut novels as well.
23/24 on #readharder2018 - nearly done ✅
Better late than never #indiebuddyreads also, #readharder2018 a western
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This is the most violent book I have ever read.
It is a relentless, cruel, blood-soaked novel that I think is near impossible to describe. Probably the bleakest Western ever written but it is also one that transcends the genre into something Harold Bloom describes as - the major aesthetic achievement of any living American writer and I really can‘t disagree.
The language alone is astonishing. Tough going but worth it.
I get that Judge Holden is possibly Satan but damned if the man isn‘t really quotable.
This book is definitely a challenging read but it‘s a very rewarding one. I expect I‘ll have to read it a few times before I have fully absorbed the story.
The opening sentence of chapter two of Blood Meridian is referenced in a Florence + the Machine song I love called “Between Two Lungs”. I love finding little connections like this. It makes me feel like I have discovered a precious little secret.
A little Saturday #bookhaul from B&N. Figured it was time to read some more McCarthy since I never shut the hell up about The Road. Adrift caught my eye too. I really should have saved my money because I‘m going to Blizzcon next week but I live life in the fast lane.
pickSo I realised I left a look of books I‘ve been reading without reviews. This book is incredible and really rather horrific. I was left feeling shocked and really uncomfortable when I finished it. I don‘t think it reads as easily as the other McCarthy I‘ve read but the pay off is huge if you have the stomach for it!
bailedI HATE to bail on this one because I KNOW is spectacularly written. The plot just didn‘t hold my interest. There is no doubt that McCarthy is a brilliant author who can make you feel everything he‘s conveying...but this western type storyline just wasn‘t for me. #guiltybail
Only a tiny way into this prosaic, albeit rather violent novel. His style is just terrific. He has a gift for making your heart connect to the emotions he describes. Interested to see where this is all heading. #cormacmccarthy #bloodmeridian
