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He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.
Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Antisemitism, Stalking, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent
Minor: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Cannibalism, Murder, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail
- Struggle with graphic depictions of violence and gore
- Don't like stories that focus on characters of low moral character
- Do not like poetic writing
- Are uncomfortable with allusions to child abuse and pedophilia
- Are offended or uncomfortable with realistic depictions of historical racism
- Avoid occasional nudity in literature
- Do not like stories based in the American Southwest and Northern Mexico in the 1800's
- Want something light to read
- Are nihilistic or are prone to nahilism
You should read this book if you:
- The above list can be tolerated
- Have a strong moral compass
- Are able to analyze and find meaning in the literature you consume
Version:
- Audiobook (Borrowed through the Libby app)
- Publisher: Recorded Books Inc.
- Narrator: Richard Poe
Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West is about:
- The moral degradation and depravity of man after reaching the pinical of its societal achievement
- War
- Peoples, cultures, and groups striving to live up to the supposed achievements their predecessors with only the knowledge of their virtues and the absence of their faults
- The results of pride, racism, natural justice (or the justice of God), alliances with the immoral and depraved, colonization, genocide, violence, greed, nihilism
- Those that dance, and those that do not dance
Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Murder
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Murder, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, War
Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Excrement, Kidnapping, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Racial slurs, Racism, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, War
Minor: Child abuse, Pedophilia
Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Racial slurs, Racism, Murder, War
Minor: Pedophilia
Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, Sexual harassment, War