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by Cormac McCarthy (Author), Harold Bloom (Introduction) "See the child ..." (more)
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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 the Paperback edition.


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"McCarthy is a writer to be read, to be admired, and quite honestly—envied."
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"McCarthy is a born narrator, and his writing has, line by line, the stab of actuality. He is here to stay."
—Robert Penn Warren
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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
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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.

the judge dances
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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
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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3.0 out of 5 stars Hard to review, really...
I enjoyed reading this book, if only for the sake of McCarthy's beautiful prose. But I'm at a loss as to how to interpret my reaction to it. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Dara O'connor

2.0 out of 5 stars Over rated
I am glad I didn't pay for this book. Get it from your local public library. It is okay, but not great. "The Kid" is hardly mentioned. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Give Me Something I Can Use

5.0 out of 5 stars Langauge
It is actually immaterial that the book is based on "actual events". Shakespeare's history plays emerge from circumstance but transmute those circumstances by a use of... Read more
Published on Sep 5 2005

2.0 out of 5 stars The Seventh Steal
One star for style; one for content....Here I was all set to do my own screenplay: the definitive Western remake of Igmar Bergman's Fifties' existential angstfest: "The... Read more
Published on Jan 3 2005 by W. GRUENDLER I I

2.0 out of 5 stars Purple Pretense
I came to this novel urged on by the gushing, almost speechless, praise of Harold Bloom in an interview on television a couple of years ago. Read more
Published on Jul 18 2004 by Harold Ledbetter

5.0 out of 5 stars It Just Doesn't Get Any Better
The only reason I have given this book 5 stars is because the option to give it more was not available.

Just an excellent work. Read more

Published on Jul 18 2004 by M. Wasserman

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Powerful Novel
At first the style of writing takes some getting use to. But when you find your rhythm for reading the prose, it's actually quite beautiful. Read more
Published on Jun 4 2004

5.0 out of 5 stars Poetic Genius
This, I must say, is one of the best book I have ever read.I read this two years ago when I was 15 and couldn't believe what a great writer McCarthy was. Read more
Published on May 27 2004 by Jenny

3.0 out of 5 stars Good, not great.
I came to this book like most of you, through the praises of Harold Bloom. Alright, I'm going to dissent with most opinions on this book. Is it good? Read more
Published on April 4 2004 by Merovingian

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the finest books I've read
I'll keep it simple here. McCarthy is a poet - his language is superb. One line from this book I'll never forget, describing the Commanches: '......a legion of horribles'. Read more
Published on April 3 2004 by Wildenbill

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