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4.01 AVERAGE
4.01 AVERAGE
dark
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Racial slurs, Violence, Murder
challenging
dark
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
While well written, the message feels more than a bit redundant. I do appreciate an unfiltered view of american settlers, rather than our polished captain america lens of history - however, the story itself felt a little daunting to exist inside of: the depravity, the ignorance, the racism, the violence. it can all be found here, but at what cost? the story and it's redundant message of cruelty in the hearts of man works much better in retrospect, to think back on as a cautionary tale of what we have the potential to devolve back into, or perhaps it's a mirror reflecting our ongoing cruelty and the poisonous roots of the very land we stand upon.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Content Warnings
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Death
challenging
dark
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
if this wasn't one of the most violent, distressing & emotionally exhausting books i've ever read... if you need a reason to be cynical of man, this is it. it's interesting when you spend the entire book looking forward to the deaths of the main characters (that may or may not happen), and when a wave of apprehension rises in you with each chapter because you know something is about to go deathly wrong. unspeakable violent acts committed by terrible, depraved people. i felt so, so bad for the poor women, children, and animals...
the unflinching merciless nature of the desert is described in just about every single way you can imagine and commas and quotation marks are unheard of and descriptive sentences trail on and on just like this one. sometimes it was exhausting to read, other times i found it beautiful.
the unflinching merciless nature of the desert is described in just about every single way you can imagine and commas and quotation marks are unheard of and descriptive sentences trail on and on just like this one. sometimes it was exhausting to read, other times i found it beautiful.
"The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day."
Requires a strong stomach and sturdy soul, but it’s worth it.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I found Blood Meridian to be a challenging, but haunting masterpiece. At times I became self-consciously fatigued by the drudgery of the endless prose, even if it was terrifically done. The book's thesis takes some time to present itself, perhaps a tad too long. Ultimately, I think these "shortcomings" are features and not bugs. Blood Meridian is a quintessential American novel, although I don't agree that it is THE GREATEST American Novel.
YouTuber Wendigoon and others have posed that The Judge is the greatest villain in all of fiction. I would not necessarily agree, however he becomes more disturbing the more one thinks about him.
I provide a full review here: https://youtu.be/AIfNHpItYR8
YouTuber Wendigoon and others have posed that The Judge is the greatest villain in all of fiction. I would not necessarily agree, however he becomes more disturbing the more one thinks about him.
I provide a full review here: https://youtu.be/AIfNHpItYR8