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by Cormac Mccarthy (Author) "See the child ..." (more)

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Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Picador (Jan 1 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0330510940
ISBN-13: 978-0330510943

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"The men as they rode turned black in the sun from the blood on their clothes and their faces and then paled slowly in the rising dust until they assumed once more the color of the land through which they passed." If what we call "horror" can be seen as including any literature that has dark, horrific subject matter, then Blood Meridian is, in this reviewer's estimation, the best horror novel ever written. It's a perverse, picaresque Western about bounty hunters for Indian scalps near the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s--a ragged caravan of indiscriminate killers led by an unforgettable human monster called "The Judge." Imagine the imagery of Sam Peckinpah and Heironymus Bosch as written by William Faulkner, and you'll have just an inkling of this novel's power. From the opening scenes about a 14-year-old Tennessee boy who joins the band of hunters to the extraordinary, mythic ending, this is an American classic about extreme violence. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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"Blood Meridian" is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennessean who stumbles into a nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving. 'McCarthy's achievement is to establish a new mythology which is as potent and vivid as that of the movies, yet one which has absolutely the opposite effect ...He is a great writer' - "Independent". 'I have rarely encountered anything as powerful, as unsettling, or as memorable as Blood Meridian ...A nightmare odyssey' - "Evening Standard". 'His masterpiece ...The book reads like a conflation of the "Inferno", "The Iliad" and "Moby Dick". I can only declare that "Blood Meridian" is unlike anything I have read in recent years, and seems to me an extraordinary, breathtaking achievement' - John Banville.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Sie mussen schalfen aber Ich muss tanzen., Jan 20 2008

By	Benjamin Anderson (Fredericton, NB CAN) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)

McCarthy writes in such beautiful, abstract, and often confusing, images. I've never encountered a prose so close to verse in all my years, as if many of the passages through BLOOD MERIDIAN could be lifted directly from some of the more dark, free verse of Eliot or Williams.

And never have I witness something so gruesome and visceral and completely unfaltering in terms of chaos.

This book is something magical, has a pitch-perfect ending, and some of the greatest characters.

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5.0 out of 5 stars An American Classic, Nov 20 2001

By	Bruddy Dahl (Perth Amboy, NJ United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)

I recently saw Harold Bloom, the famous literary scholar from Yale, on a television show where he stated that Blood Meridian was the greatest work of any contemporary American author. I agree. I can't think of anything I've read that even comes close to this novel. First, you have the prose style, which is so controlled and crafted and at the same time flows so naturally that it must have taken years to develop. It reminded me of a missing book from the bible: hypnotic, enigmatic, ancient and at the same time, familiar. I kept thinking of the ocean when I was reading it because of the vastness of the landscape he describes. It seems as if the characters are on a journey, but they're not, unless they're circling further and further down into hell.

I think the familiarity of the novel comes from it's relation to violence from a Christian standpoint. There's no doubt that McCarthy intends to have us react to this book from a moral perspective and yet at the same time be fascinated with it's violence. The setting, the wild wicked west, is a part of the American psyche that still takes forms today in our action films and tv shows that feed our hunger for blood and murder. By taking us back to our roots, stripping away the restraints of our Judeo-Christian values, MCCarthy steeps the story of death and evil in biblical prose and washes it with blood so that we see our dark selves reflected in all our ugliness.

I compare this work to the works of the great Russian novelists ,Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, who always went for the big questions, What is life?, Who is God?, What is morality? and the American Moby Dick which encapsulated a universe. When you read books like these a lot of what appears on the bestseller lists seems so meaningless.

This is a book you simply stand in awe of if you're a writer or ever thought of being one.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Get out your dictionary, Oct 8 2009

By	Anthony England (Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)

It took me a while but I finally finished and loved this book. I'll admit I spent some time looking up the definitions to some words but I don't think you can read this without using a dictionary....unless you're a genius or lying.

Extremely graphic and difficult at times but well worth it. It's striking how his current writing pales in comparison. This must have taken a long time to write wheras NCFOM must have taken him an hour. I still enjoyed NCFOM but it wasn't nearly as fulfilling. It'll be interesting to how Blood Meridian turns out as a film. At one time you wouldn't think it'd be possible to make such a violent film but now it seems anything goes and violence sells.

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