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The thing about Blood Meridian is, though a novel, it is entirely built around a series of actual events occurring mostly in Chihuahua state in late mid-19th C, but also on both sides of border. Also, McCarthy is the most creative prose stylist in English since Skakespeare.
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The man knows how to turn a phrase. Many of his sentences made my hair stand on end. In a good way.
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I read Blood meridian for the first time this summer and holy crap...
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Wait, isn't that the one where at the end the protagonist is reunited with his childhood mentor?
A great, but grim book. I think we'd make better choices if more of us read and appreciated McCarthy.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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And then there are those books where only parts are unbearable: I nominate IB Singer's Satan in Goray - the part when they think the leader's shoulder is dislocated when it's really broken, and they try to "put it back"
Or the beginning and ending of Perfume by Süskind. -
Did you see the movie Perfume? One of the strangest haunting alien beautiful things, incredible soundtrack
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Yes to anything by McCarthy in the brutal/upsetting category but I always find them to be uplifting as well - "All the Pretty Horses" for sure.
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The scene where he picks up the nude toddler hanging upside down by his foot and...
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yep, good book
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That's one messed up book. When I finished it, I wasn't surprised to find out that some people thought of the Judge as the Devil. An evil, "illuminated" bastard.
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