/lit/ - Literature

One of the best books I've read this year, any other writers like this?

>>16429474
this cover is far better tho

Why the fuck would I read this shit?

Sounds like it's horrible and only got popularity as 'cult status' ie a bunch of contrarian losers jacking eachother off over how different it is.

the entire novel:
>gang rides around a barren, hellish, empty, sandy, dry, red, desert with mountains, lightning, stars and dust in the background
>gang camps
>gang kills mexicans/indians
>gang parties and trashes a local town
>repeat throughout rest of book

its not a bad novel but i expected so much more

>I know your kind. What's wrong with you is wrong all the way through you?
Brainlet here. What's the Kid referring to?

What did we think of it

Simply by being superior.

>They is four things that can destroy the earth, he said. Women, whiskey, money, and niggers.
is this, dare I say, /ourbook/?

Me: *throws a yellowed book on the dias* Discuss Blood Meridian.

(Anons enter stage left)

All: Yes.

>What is the significance of giving the judge both human and angel-like agency?

>How would you describe the Judge’s philosophy? Does it correspond to any particular contemporary philosophy? Why does he deliver it like gospel?

>What do you make of the kid’s fate? What evidence do you have to support your views?

Just finished this 30 minutes ago.

First book I've finished in 7 years.

I read it.

How do I better understand it?

>>15544716
There's a reading group on /lit/ talking Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian right now, though it might begin a bit earlier than your specified dates. It's also very ethereal, if you're into that sorta thing.

>le empowered black man chops off le oppressive white man’s head
Why didn’t anyone tell me McCarthy was a sjw cuck before I started reading this trash?

>“The writing was dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time the Judge was shown, the author wrote that he was 'naked to the waist'. I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. McCarthy’s mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that he has no other style of writing.”

Do you agree with Harold Bloom's review of Blood Meridian? Seems a bit harsh.

NPC: The Novel. You quickly notice the lack of internal reflection and characterisation - things just happen as the protagonist drifts from one action sequence to the next.

So I just finished Blood Meridian and I'm still shell shocked. Let's see if I can put my impressions into words.

>it's a shit book, I dropped it after X pages.
You were plebfiltered. Suck a dick.

>Characters:
The Judge is obviously amazing. Original, scary, horrifying, unpredictable. Every page where he speaks is golden. (Legit loled when he buys the puppies and a second later throws them into the river.) I just didn't like how often McCarthy made him smile silently. It's a cheap trick to make someone look creepy.
The other characters, while not as memorable, are easy to distinguish and functional.

>Rhythm:
In the beginning, I considered the middle part of the book way too repetitive. The massacres and the descriptions of the scorching desert felt redundant and trite, after the first 100 pages or so. I was annoyed and bored. I even considered dropping the book.
I wondered why an author of McCarthy's caliber would make such an obvious mistake... until I realized that the repetition had a specific function. McCarthy was training me. He was getting me accustomed to the ultraviolence of the book until I started to consider it normal, even boring. He takes modern readers, people unused to even mild violence, and after a steady diet of brutality he turns them into people that can witness babies' skulls broken against rocks without raising an eyebrow. People who consider a world made of roasting sand and desiccated corpses normal. Just like his characters. Now the readers are ready to understand the message of the book.
You thought you were reading McCarthy, instead McCarthy was reading (and rewriting) you. Faggot.

The problem I had in the beginning is that I kept waiting for Blood Meridian to become a normal book. I was waiting for the usual character development, the usual cycle of mistery-to-solve, goal-to-reach, hints, struggle, failure, more hints, personal growth, struggle again, success. But none of this stuff ever came, because Blood Meridian is NOT a normal book. It completely ignores the usual scheme and does its own thing without giving a fuck about your expectations, and only when you realize exactly WHAT it's trying to do, you start to appreciate it. Because it does what it wants to do extremely well.
So hang in there, or you'll get plebfiltered.

Just finished bros. Holy shit was it great. What are your thoughts? Was Judge Holden the devil? Is he Manifest Destiny? Is he America? What does the make the kid? What does the epilogue mean? I'd love to discuss it with you

Then he killed and murdered and raped an Indian. Then he spat. They rode on. They said not a word to eachother. The judge looked at him and smiled.

>that final chapter
it's been like 5 yrs since i read it and i can still picture it so clearly. whats your favorite blood meridian scene /lit/?

>>15000440
Blood Meridian

Just finished this masterpiece, one of the greatest things I've ever read. Opinions?

I just finished this absolute masterpiece for the first time. May just be one of the greatest things I've ever read. What was the fate of the kid in the end?