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Let's be honest with ourselves. This book (Blood Meridian) is the greatest work of American fictional literature ever written.

I finished it nearly 2 months ago and I still cant stop thinking about it, cant stop trying to understand it more. Will probably read it a 2nd time through when I get a chance

>> No.11544921

It's shit

>> No.11544927

>>11544916
After the sound and the fury I agree. There’s nothing like it

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>> No.11544941

>>11544927
2nd post best post
Melville has nothing on Faulkner

>> No.11544942

>>11544927
>the sound and the fury
havent read it, will have to look into this one

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>>11544942
>Calls Blood Meridian the best US lit ever and hasn't even read the book everyone else calls "the best US lit"

>> No.11544958

>>11544941
Moby Dick at its high points (like ahab’s gnostic speech about striking the sun of it insulted him) is on par with the best of Faulkner (the mausoleum of time passage etc) but Faulkner is the better storyteller and says more with way less

>> No.11545078

Blood Meridian is trash for edgy adolescents who haven't grown out of their 'I want big muscles' phase.

>> No.11545084

>>11545078
t. feeble coward who doesn't want big muscles

>> No.11545087

>>11545078
t. miserable contrarian cunt

>> No.11545247

>>11545078
t. edgy adolescent faggot

>> No.11545254

>>11544916
>This book (Blood Meridian) is the greatest work of American fictional literature ever written.
go away bloom

>> No.11545259

>>11545078
t. absolute fucking faggot

>> No.11545269

>>11544916
What did you think was so interesting about it? What questions does it bring up in your mind that you are trying to understand? I liked the writing style but it hasn’t stuck in my mind at all otherwise.

>> No.11545270

>>11545254
Bloom says the supreme aesthetic achievement of any LIVING American author if I recall correctly. Bloom would choose Moby Dick over BM. Probably some Faulkner, James and Hawthorne too

>> No.11545301

I’m nearly done with crime & punishment should I read it or read lord of the flies instead?

>> No.11545305

>>11545301
If youre 12 you should have read Lord of the Flies by now

>> No.11545333

>>11545301
Lord of the Flies can be read in an afternoon

>> No.11546597

>>11545078
t. big poopy face

>> No.11546606

>>11545269
Answer my question you posers

>> No.11546612

>>11545270
Bloom is an antiquated and worthless “scholar.”

>> No.11546658

>>11544916

It's the American Dante's Inferno

>> No.11546697

>>11545078
If wanting big muscles was good enough for Plato, it’s good enough for me

>> No.11546704

>>11544916
it's the death grips of lit (in a good way)

>> No.11546829

>>11544942
its wild

>> No.11546844

>>11545078
muscles are a manifestation of my will to power you daft cunt
>>11546606
It's not worth asking let alone answering. You're a pleb. Come to terms with that and cease your jabbering and dithering in this place.

>> No.11546886

I'm reading it right now. Thoughts:

I dig the style and the characterization, just wish there was a bit more characterization for the Kid, as of now he's pretty much a non-character. I'm about half way through. I like where they're going with the Judge character. I don't think there's ever been a villain like him before. He's portrayed as oddly feminine and childlike. He's the most interesting part of the book so far.

Also the violence and gore are really great in deconstructing the romanticized Wild West of popular culture. This is a Cowboys vs Indians tale without any of the pantomime.

Some of the analogies and long-winded Moby dick-like philosophical musings went a bit over my head. This is a book where the first reading is only getting your feet wet. Definitely requires a second reading...

>> No.11546928

>>11544916
t. hasn't read Moby Dick

>> No.11547208

>>11546844
Oh so you don’t know why you like it. Guess I didn’t miss much.

>> No.11547235

I really liked it as well. Also I read Faulkner was an influence on CM, I'm looking for something similar in terms of prose and setting, is Faulkner similar?

>> No.11547264

>>11547235
I wouldn't say it's similar, but they definitely go well together. Faulkner goes out of his way to confuse you though, whereas McCarthy's storytelling is pretty simple in structure. Start with the Sound and the Fury and then go to Absalom, Absalom!

>> No.11547335

Too much purple prose for me. His characters dont even talk like real people.

>> No.11547342

>>11547335
Only the villains don’t talk like real people, and I’m glad they dont

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>>11547335
>tfw he plagiarized the dialogue from autobiographical 1800's lit

>> No.11547349

>>11546928
This is true not only because Moby Dick is the better novel, but because of its masive influence on Blood Meridian. If Mccarthy heard someone say that BM was better than than Moby Dick, I imagine he would find that blasphemous.

>> No.11547360

>>11545078
not striving for perfection of body alongside perfection of mind and spirit smdh

>> No.11547417

>>11547335
It's "prosy" but it's not purple like Nabokov.

>> No.11547422

>>11547335
Mmm yeah they do.

>> No.11547522

>>11545078
t. slack-jawed faggot