A review by asililydying
Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

4.5

depraved. how do the 'enlightened' create and maintain colonialism? liberal democracy, a fair republic, founded on the defiled corpses of millions and millions of innocent lives; crimes committed nakedly, bald, out in the open with many a song to accompany them.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Fatphobia, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Antisemitism, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism