Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy

[brekk]

I originally read this book back in highschool for a class. I just bought a copy last week to read again, because it's one of my all time favorite books.

Its the tail of a group of mercenary scalp hunters in the southwest along the US/Mexican border. Its extremely violent, and graphic. I highly recomend this book to anybody who likes the closest you could get to an action movie in book form.

I really do hope it eventually is turned into a film, it could be a "300" level of awesome.

Note: The event's are some what historically accurate the group is based on a real group of scalpers led by a buy named Glanton.

[Rune]

I really liked Cormac McCarthy's recent stuff, and some of his older stuff that I have read, but I felt like I gave this book a pretty good try and it was fucking unreadable. It has all of his vagueness and sparse poetic meanderings but with none of the incisiveness. After a hundred pages I still had no clue what was going on, or even the bare minimum biography of the protagonist. Like, say, his name.

[Simas]

Yeah I read about 1/2 of it and had trouble getting into it. I intend to give it another shot here in a little while though.

No country for old men was a breeze though, hoping the movie will be decent.

[Dokomo]

His newest novel "The Road" is Oprah's Book of the Month.

I can see tons of housewives getting depressed over a post-apocalyptic future now.

[Raytes]

Speaking of The Road, it just won the Pulitzer. A few people in academia and literary circles are saying he's the next Faulkner (an assertion that is supported by the winning of the Pulitzer) but I know a lot of people are resistant to that idea. The Road is a classic, however.

[brekk]

Originally Posted by Rune

Like, say, his name.

you never find out his name. He's just "the kid"

The book is very hard to read and the early part of it is confusing, but it does become more readable and better.

[darksensei]

Originally Posted by Rune

I really liked Cormac McCarthy's recent stuff, and some of his older stuff that I have read, but I felt like I gave this book a pretty good try and it was fucking unreadable. It has all of his vagueness and sparse poetic meanderings but with none of the incisiveness. After a hundred pages I still had no clue what was going on, or even the bare minimum biography of the protagonist. Like, say, his name.

QFT, had to read this for college English class.