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Blood Meridian is not perfect at all but I do like how it's one of those rare books that has thrilling moments and action but at the same time isn't dumb and totally focused on dime a dozen action scenes.

Any other books like this that you'd suggest?

>> No.11973497

>>11973479
>Blood Meridian is not perfect at all
what flaws did you see in it

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>>11973497
Somebody casually uses the term "Monroe doctrine" in 1849 which was before it was first coined. Unforgivable.

>> No.11973540

>>11973519
when was it coined?

>> No.11973545

>>11973540
1850

>> No.11973546

>>11973540
1850

>> No.11973566

>>11973540
1850

>> No.11973624

>>11973479
On The Road

>> No.11974329

>>11973497
Not him, but the entire middle is kind of a blur. The beginning and end are unforgettable, but the middle is just a mad seizure of random violent acts.

I get that that was the point, but it can be a slog to read at points.

>> No.11974373

Read anything else by him? The border trilogy is pretty good and less heavy handed. Butcher’s Crossing is good, so is Warlock. Also if you’ve never read Lonesome Dove read that shit.

>> No.11974886

>>11973479
No Country for Old Men by the same author might be right up your alley. I enjoyed that shit.

>> No.11974913

>>11973497
End ending is cheesy and spoonfeeding.

>> No.11974938

>>11974913
>spoonfeeding.
How?

>> No.11974960

I need to know if it's a meme. I relatively new to /lit/ and cant tell if people are fucking with me or not. I want a good, contemporary american novel. I can't tell with you people!

>> No.11974988

>>11974960
>They wandered the borderland for weeks seeking some sign of the Apache. 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 alike 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. Like beings provoked out of the absolute rock and set nameless and at no remove from their own loomings to wander ravenous and doomed and mute as gorgons shambling the brutal wastes of Gondwanaland in a time before nomenclature was and each was all.

>> No.11975029

>>11974988
My jaw just hit the floor

>> No.11975035

>>11974913
Yeah, you're full of shit.

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>>11974913
Nah

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>>11975044
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>>11975047
(3/3)

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>>11975051
This is all from good ol’ /lit/ btw, it’s posts like these that keep me comin’ back for more, thank you based anon wherever you are

>> No.11975069

I wasn't big on Blood Meridian, but read horror novels. They aren't focused on action scenes, and have all the thrills you could want.

>> No.11975286

>>11974938
I enjoyed the novel a lot. I think it's a great work of literature that stands apart from the rest of contemporary literature that people talk about (DeLillo, Roth, etc).

But as far as I'm concerned, the novel ends after the kid kills Elrod. Thematically the novel is complete. The violent and brutal nature of man has been explored adequately. The kid, even after growing up and showing some remorse or at least acknowledgement of the wrongness of his actions, falls back into the violence. Man can acknowledge the horrors of violence but he can never renounce it; violence and conflict are in our nature and are fundamentally inseparable from being human.

The last scene sort of just reinforces this for most interpretations of the Judge, and so it's redundant. On top of that, it's heavy handed, sort of ridiculous (the Judge hasn't aged), and feels pretty out of place.

>>11975044
>>11975047
>>11975051
This is an interesting interpretation, but what does it really tell me about being human or anything else?

>> No.11975397

>>11973479
OP you should really check The Diezmo, Rick Bass. It's very good, and it does not have that snobbish flavour that Blood Meridian has.

>> No.11975569

>>11973519
How do you know they don't say it in 1849 in the book? When the gang collapses apart, the Kid is already sixteen years old as they've been traveling around for two years, and the book starts at year 1849.

Or am I misremembering things?

>> No.11975587

>>11975286
Alright I see that, can't say I disagree or agree, I need to read it again. But I'll keep that in mind when I do.

>> No.11975841

>>11973540

December 2, 1823