It's an incredible book, and incredibly difficult. Haven't been able to actually finish it yet.
Probably should get to it instead of grinding in Brave Zzzvius bro. At least us Terra Battle players are able to finish the book!
It's an incredible book, and incredibly difficult. Haven't been able to actually finish it yet.
I initially read it like that too, but eventually I stopped trying to understand every word and read it like a stream of consciousness.
Just let the beauty of the words and images flow over me. Only re-read if I absolutely have zero clue what's going on.
What was that one line about Judge killing a bird or something simply because it existed without his permission? That always stuck with me for some reason
Amazing
They should get Denis Villeneuve to direct an adaptation of this book.
I've honestly never struggled with a book to the level I'm currently facing with BotNS. Shit is tough yo!
Well, time for a reread hahaha. I just want to post fifty Holden quotes. His rant about birds is incredible and really sums up what's so shitty about human beings.
Also, one of the most badass lines in the history of literature and very Ghengis Khan
The part with the babies being dashed against the rocks disturbed me for several days, and that was just an off-hand visual descriptor. Similarly horrible stuff happens in other books, but it's the language McCarthy uses to describe violence which makes it so potent.
They had but two animals and one of these had been snakebit in the desert and this thing now stood in the compound with its head enormously swollen and grotesque like some fabled equine ideation out of an Attic tragedy. It had been bitten on the nose and its eyes bulged out of the shapeless head in a horror of agony and it tottered moaning toward the clustered horses of the company with its misshapen muzzle swinging and drooling and its breath wheezing in the throttled pipes of its throat. The skin had split open along the bridge of its nose and the bone shone through pinkish white and its small ears looked like paper spills twisted into either side of a hairy loaf of dough. The American horses began to mill and separate along the wall at its approach and it swung after them blindly. There was a flurry of thumps and kicks and the horses began to circle the compound. A small mottled stallion belonging to one of the Delawares came out of the remuda and struck at the thing twice and then turned and buried its teeth in its neck. Out of the mad horses throat came a sound that brought men to the door.
I have a question regarding the ending because I'm still confused about it.
Is it implied that Judge Holden killed the Kid?
McCarthy is a genius and Blood Meridian is pretty incredible. I also love The Road but I need to read more of his stuff.
Ditto, it is my favorite Cormac McCarthy novel and Judge Holden is arguably his most compelling character. To this day I have yet to figure out what he stands for.
I just finished listening to that at work. It was gorgeous. Thanks for posting.
I have a question regarding the ending because I'm still confused about it.
Is it implied that Judge Holden killed the Kid?
Harold Bloom takes a Gnostic look at it. It's worth looking into his interpretation.
The closing piece seems to suggest he's representative of humanity's drive for war and technology to further that. We're those little figures following him from hole to hole.
He wants to keep Judge Holden completely inexplicable. Saying that he is a sort of Gnostic demiurge is too facile for McCarthys portrayal of him. - http://www.avclub.com/article/harold-bloom-on-iblood-meridiani-29214
It's the best book to tell people is your favorite book.
Gene Wolfe?Blood Meridian is my favourite book of all time, read it multiple times, and I'm struggling way harder with Book of the New Sun.
With BM, I actually found it easier to read while stoned. It's got this feverish flow to it that just grabs you eventually if you sort of turn off your brain.
Suttree is less accessible than Blood Meridian but still should be read. I prefer the writing in Suttree to any of McCarthy's books.
It's my most admired book but hearing it's someone's favorite should elicit some eyebrow raising. Shit is fucked up, yo.
This made me think of my several attempts to read Only Revolutions by Danielewsky. I restarted it so many times over a few years and it finally clicked when I started singing it instead.I've honestly never struggled with a book to the level I'm currently facing with BotNS. Shit is tough yo!
Here's another musical variant: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Pale_Light_in_the_West
There are YouTube versions out there, I think.
I have a question regarding the ending because I'm still confused about it.
Is it implied that Judge Holden killed the Kid?
Should make an HBO TV show of it instead. I'm not sure they can capture it in a 2 hour movie.
Look you, I wasn't saying Brave Exvius wasn't a snooze. I was just saying that Terra Battle is tooProbably should get to it instead of grinding in Brave Zzzvius bro. At least us Terra Battle players are able to finish the book!