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Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
by Cormac McCarthy
blood meridian is easily one of my favourite things i've ever read. this book is just straight up amazing and it's one of those rare cases where i would actually be thrilled at an adaptation (especially if it is anything like the "no country for old men" adaptation!)
cormac mccarthy uses unbearably long sentences at times, ones that take up half the page, to describe the tedium of the long, brutal journeys the characters face. i really like that, though it made the book difficult to read at times; i found myself stranded halfway through a sentence, not unlike the protagonist shambling through desert wastelands.
the violence is ample in this book, but not gratuitous regardless of how prevalent it becomes. the manner in which the horrors are described are written with such a frankness that it's clear such brutality is not celebrated, nor relished in by the narrator. in fact, i believe that mccarthy's purpose to the violence was to completely desensitize us to it by delivering it to us so matter-of-factly. in blood meridian, violence is just an inevitable facet of life and of manhood. therefore, the characters grow accustomed to it. similarly, readers of blood meridian eventually understand that violence is an inevitable aspect to the book. and consequently, we begin to anticipate it ourselves.
i think it's so well done, i could talk about it for ages, really. i finished this book just as jesse welles released his album "middle", where he quotes the book and mentions it by name in several songs, and it was so fitting and amusing to me that the timing worked out that way.
cormac mccarthy uses unbearably long sentences at times, ones that take up half the page, to describe the tedium of the long, brutal journeys the characters face. i really like that, though it made the book difficult to read at times; i found myself stranded halfway through a sentence, not unlike the protagonist shambling through desert wastelands.
the violence is ample in this book, but not gratuitous regardless of how prevalent it becomes. the manner in which the horrors are described are written with such a frankness that it's clear such brutality is not celebrated, nor relished in by the narrator. in fact, i believe that mccarthy's purpose to the violence was to completely desensitize us to it by delivering it to us so matter-of-factly. in blood meridian, violence is just an inevitable facet of life and of manhood. therefore, the characters grow accustomed to it. similarly, readers of blood meridian eventually understand that violence is an inevitable aspect to the book. and consequently, we begin to anticipate it ourselves.
i think it's so well done, i could talk about it for ages, really. i finished this book just as jesse welles released his album "middle", where he quotes the book and mentions it by name in several songs, and it was so fitting and amusing to me that the timing worked out that way.