Reviews - Meridiano de Sangue ou o Crepúsculo Vermelho no Oeste

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Meridiano de Sangue ou o Crepúsculo Vermelho no Oeste

Cormac McCarthy

4.01 AVERAGE

wallacha4's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark emotional tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

lachiemorris's review against another edition

3.75

challenging dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Violent brutal and in offering of no reprieve. This book does a lot and nothing at all in its entirety. The plot itself is hard to even map out as it’s basically a travel log that changes the group after each outing. They don’t really change character wise as their beginning is how they stay, but in a book like this I think it works.

For the standouts it goes without saying that the judge carried the book. He is in my honest opinion why the book is rated so highly. No one comes close to him character wise. Glanton has some moments and so does the expriest but that’s all. Everyone else is fodder, even the kid who doesn’t do or say much other than being a great shot.

How this book is written is really hard to recreate and at times read. It’s prose at its most beautiful is flowing and gorgeous, but at its worse, conversations are indistinguishable and everything comes too quickly.

It’s enjoyable and worthy of its praise but it does have its fair share of negatives too. Enjoyably bleak and doesn’t even indulge in the ‘torture porn’ aspect these kinds of books tend to go towards.