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Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

jillian_eckert's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

"i wonder if there's other worlds like this, he said. or if this is the only one." this entire book was a punch to the gut.

lloydstein's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

acertaineh's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

undeadgearhead's review against another edition

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It's genuinely not a bad book if you're okay with gore. It's very descriptive of gore. I just couldn't finish it due to the lack of quotations around dialogue. I know that's the authors style, I just didn't think it'd be as difficult to follow as it was. I plan on trying it again some day. 

stuartjash's review against another edition

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challenging dark tense medium-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? Yes

5.0


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wolperding's review against another edition

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adventurous dark tense medium-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? Yes

3.5

charlottesaville's review against another edition

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challenging dark reflective tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • 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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zhqlley's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional reflective tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

mlogan021's review against another edition

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dark
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.0

jayseewhy's review against another edition

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4.0

What a book. At the same time beautiful and wholly repulsive.

“The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.”