44 likes2 comments
It‘s brutal!
4.25 Stars
Blood Meridian, Or, the Evening Redness in the West. Cormac McCarthy (Revised) | 
pickAn excellent journey into the old West and its savagery.
so-soI listened to this… blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood a border blood blood blood and more blood. Tough listen but here we are. Did I like it? Blood blood blood blood another border blood blood blood blood…
Listening to this as an audiobook. Super narrator. Incredibly bloody.
so-soDid I like this book? I don‘t know. Like others, I found the story to be gratuitously graphic and violent, but tried to put that aside as a feature of the kind of dystopian frontier western setting at play. And I think in the author‘s mind, the horror of all that was necessary in order for the reader to understand the twisted mental machinations and death cult philosophy that the judge espoused. All in all, a dark, grotesque read.
pickFinished my reread of one of the great books today, just showing a little respect. ✌️
"Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their meaning."
pickMy #Doublespin read for May!
Such a heavy and violent book. But a masterpiece. McCarthy never fails to floor me and serve up a reading *experience*. He is a genius writer. This is all based on historical events, including The Glanton Gang, or so I‘ve heard and is a very dark and bloody vision of the wild west.
#MayMontage
Day 7. Discussion book
#DiscussionBook
Doing a Buddy read through Blood Meridian and thought it fit perfectly for this prompt.
First words/ line: “See the child.”
panNever visited a book three times but this one I had to in order to finish it. I didn‘t like it. I hated the writing style and the violence almost seemed gratuitous. I couldn‘t keep track of the characters and for the life of me I couldn‘t tell you what the plot is. This may be the last time I read a book based upon friends telling me it‘s a must read and it‘s a classic.
panThis book is probably the worst book I have ever read. It usually takes me 4 weeks or less to finish a book and it took me 4 months to finish this one. It was so confusing, I can‘t remember it having a plot and I wouldn‘t be able to explain to someone what this book is all about. Western is really not my genre and I‘ve learned my lesson, I‘ll continue to stick to the genres I like.
However, I must say, Cormac‘s descriptive writing is very good.
pick5 stars-for the stupendous writing and the sheer impact.🏜
bailedDNF. I should've stopped when I got to the
"tree of dead babies." But I had to be stubborn
and get to p100. There has never been a book
that is more NOT for me than this book.
so-soI never really got into the writing style of this book, so I found it hard to follow. Lots of brutal violence, so if your not into that I would not recommend you attempt this. Maybe I'll try an audio reread down the road. #100EssentialNovels
#WondrousWednesday @Eggs
Thanks for the tag @Chrissyreadit.
1. Fall
2. reading scary books and watching scary movies
3. Any library (I love going to the library)
4. grateful I am able to be of service to others today
I know its late but @WJCintron @deeannloso @Arvena feel free to play!
Make a great day everyone -
#ThinkPositiveBePositive @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
Thanks for the tag @Andrew65
@rwmg @Gissy I tag you😊
Make a great day.
Profound! But please do not imitate the characters.
Who else is getting blue balls waiting for The Passenger to come out? 🥴
“Your heart‘s desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.”
pickMy boyfriend got me this book as a late Christmas gift and I‘ll be honest, at first I was annoyed with the writing style. Lack of punctuation and almost Stephen King type descriptions it felt long winded, but it was absolutely a page turner. Small details that are used later and descriptions that haunt. I loved it.
My boyfriend and I did a book exchange for a late Christmas thing. It was to be a book that either we love or we knew they‘d love and this was what he chose for me. I can‘t wait to start dreading it !
I'm happy with my reading progress this year, so much better than last year! 😃🔖
My Top-5 of the year is coming soon! 📚✅
Did you have a particular book that stood out among the rest of your 2020 reads?
#goodreads
#readingchallenge
#2020
1.) He's just a great, great writer and I thoroughly enjoy his books; they're so easy to read and always impact me somehow.
2.) I'd say The Hobbit is a big comfort read for me, I've read it quite a few times; it's easy reading and pure escapism - best to be read in bed next to candlelight with tea. 🕯☕
3.) Perfect movie adaptations? (Especially the short story adaptations of Stephen King's work) 📼
#sundayfunday @ozma.of.oz
gruesomely beautiful. gorgeously brutal.
this took me a while to read because i found myself stopping to marvel at mccarthy's language so often.
1.) Horror! 💀 Why? Because I started off reading with 'salems Lot by Stephen King around 1999-2000 and that's where my love of reading began. I tend to enjoy horror novels more than any other books because I'm always looking for my next scare! 👻
2.) My favourite book series is The Dark Tower because I think it's one of the best things I've ever came across in my life, it's just everything. 🥀
3.) Tagged ✅
@ozma.of.oz #sundayfunday
pick"This desert upon which so many have been broken is vast and calls for largeness of heart but it is ultimately empty. It is hard, it is barren. It's very nature is stone." This book is brutal.
#Popsugarchallenge2020 A Western
pickI love how Cormac McCarthy describes the desert and how he uses his words to really get us there. My favourite is still All The Pretty Horses, but I also had this “deserted“ feeling while reading this book. Be careful: this really is a bloody book, where different kinds of slaughter take place. Sadly, based on true events...
Me: I don't have the time and the money for swaps this year. Also, I have enough unread books here. I'm fine with that.
Litsy: I've got something for you. You might like that. You can sign up now.
#SantaThing
pick
As advertised....This novel is extremely dense, and it‘s slow moving at times, like a company of killers plodding through a dessert wasteland.... well, it‘s exactly like that. At other times, it‘s bloody, violent, and cruel. There‘s many types of beasts, thousands of mules (dead, alive, and at various stages of decomposition), and a whole hell lot of riding and moving on. Not for the casual reader. Overall rating: 4.25 stars
A dude and his criminal friends get into shenanigans in the desert. The shenanigans typically cause death. A naked guy dances in the end.
“Deployed upon that plain they moved in a constant elision, ordained agents of the actual dividing out the world which they encountered and leaving what had been and what would never be alone extinguished on the ground behind them. Spectre horsemen, pale with dust, anonymous in the crenellated heat. Above all else, they appeared wholly at venture, primal, provisional, devoid of order.”
Hanging in the hometown of McCarthy this weekend for the Big Ears Music Festival.
“And so these parties divided upon that midnight plain, each passing back the way the other had come, pursuing as all travelers must inversions without end upon other men‘s journeys.”
“For this will to deceive that is in things luminous may manifest itself likewise in retrospect and so by sleight of some fixed part of a journey already accomplished may also post men to fraudulent destinies.”
“The judge smiled.
Books lie, he said.
God dont lie.
No, said the judge. He does not. And these are his words.
He held up a chunk of rock.
He speaks in stones and trees, the bones of things.“
“Far out on the desert to the north dustspouts rose wobbling and augured the earth and some said they‘d heard of pilgrims borne aloft like dervishes in those mindless coils to be dropped broken and bleeding upon the desert again and there perhaps to watch the thing that had destroyed them lurch onward like some drunken djinn and resolve itself once more into the elements from which it sprang.“
“[He] cried out what it seemed he himself would not hear, a howl of such outrage as to stitch a caesura in the pulsebeat of the world. But the kid only spat into the darkness of the space between them. I know your kind, he said. What‘s wrong with you is wrong all the way through you.”
“Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot he deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their meaning.”
“[T]hey rode out of that vanished sea like burnt phantoms [...] and there began to appear above them in the dawn-broached sky a hellish likeness of their ranks rising huge and inverted [...] the howling antiwarriors pendant from their mounts immense and chimeric and the high wild cries carrying that flat and barren pan like the cries of souls broke through some misweave in the weft of things into the world below.”
———
If Faulkner wrote Revelations
1) Cormac McCarthy
2) Blood Meridian. Or The Road. Or Blindness. It depends on the day.
3) The Broken Earth trilogy by N.K. Jemisen
4) Sci-fi, horror, dystopia, science nonfiction, history, space stuff, true crime
5) Romance, historical fiction. Basically any story about normal stuff.
#ravenclaw_princess913 @RavenclawPrincess913
Another 2-for-1 sale? Don't mind if I do!
#audiblesale
This is scratching some type of itch for me, goddamn.
