Reviews tagging 'Death'

Blood Meridian; or, The Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

124 reviews

luckyoldsun's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child death, Death, and Genocide

noah8421's review

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism and Drug use

marcel_beres's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I found the book to have a slow start, because I was looking for a concrete, easily summarisable plot. When I realised this is not a book you read for the plot, I was instantly hooked.

Blood Meridian certainly deserves its reputation; a bleak, violent deconstruction of the Western genre and the American Dream, an exploration of the darkness in the human heart. While the lack of punctuation often tripped me up, I eventually got used to it—though I don't understand the point of it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, and Blood

applequinn's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Murder, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child abuse and Suicide

amiwriterwrong's review

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

This novel feels like the recounting of a lost dream told through the voice of a mad poet and I mean that in the most positive manner I can possibly convey.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

hjb_128's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Blood, Medical content, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

nlesnevich's review

dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

Wildly Violent

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Murder, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

luca_b95's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

A truly dark western that doesn’t look away from the horror of colonization for one instant. A thoroughly uncomfortable read at times and absurdly funny at times. It is not for the faint of heart and there are no happy endings. Impossible not to think about long after putting it down.

Violence is inherent to our nature as humans. There are some who participate, and those who do not. Like the bear who killed the Delawares and the dancing bear who was shot dead in the bar.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Murder, Colonisation, and War

Minor: Ableism, Rape, and Slavery

breakphonics's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

oncemeridiem74's review

adventurous challenging dark informative reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

I wrote an essay on this: “Mythic Old West to Grim Modern Mess: Blood Meridian through Freudian Psychoanalysis and Said’s Postcolonialism”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Blood, Excrement, Religious bigotry, Abortion, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Cultural appropriation, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Bush full of dead babies