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Does anyone else dislike Mccarthy? I'm about ~200 pages deep into pic related and while it can be somewhat exciting, overall I don't really enjoy it. The description of the scenery leaves me confused to the point where I'm not even sure what I'm supposed the visualize. There is little to no character development. I don't know. Anyways, I can't be the only one.

>> No.4513316

This is next on my list after I'm done with Silence of the Lambs. It's got a lot of hype behind it.

>> No.4513328

>>4513316
Here's what I've got out of it so far: violence, scenery description, violence, scenery, violence, scenery, etc, etc, etc

>> No.4513341

>>4513328
>>4513302
This isn't by accident by OP. It's not a story about individual people and their changes, it's about humanity and its violent nature as the ultimate manifestation of nature in its eternal conflict with itself. So yeah, that's why it's mostly scenery and people getting killed, without much of a plot.

I don't want to say it's 2deep4u, because McCarthy's style in this novel (and even in some of his others with all of the polysyndetons) might not appeal to some, but if read the Judge's dialogue it becomes pretty obvious that McCarthy wrote the novel in the style he did.

>> No.4513343

>>4513341
>if you* read the Judge's dialogue it becomes pretty obvious why*

Sorry had a few beers and not paying attention

>> No.4513350

>>4513341

>the Judge symbolizes war/man's violent nature

OMG. CAN WE GIVE THIS BOOK ANOTHER AWARD?? DEEP STUFF. I NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT THAT.

>> No.4513377

The hellish landscapes of Northern Mexico and the American Southwest and the barren souls of man have everything in common. The scenery descriptions are integral to the story.

>> No.4513410

What got me about it was its brutal aesthetic. This is genuine horror in beautiful minimalist prose. Dante is a pussy. McCarthy really puts you through hell.

>>4513350
Just kill yourself.

>> No.4513426

>>4513341

Props to this mafucka for teaching me a word I ain't know.

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4513470

>>4513302

>I'm not even sure what I'm supposed the visualize. There is little to no character development.

plotkids pls go

we have enough plebs here already, thanx

>> No.4513481

>>4513470
Goddammit, this just made me disturb an entire library.

>> No.4513490

>>4513410
>Glanton pushed the horse back and took one of the heavy saddle pistols from its scabbard and cocked it.
>Watch yourself there.
>Several of the men stepped back. The woman looked up. Neither courage nor heartsink in those old eyes. He pointed with his left hand and she turned to follow his hand with her gaze and he put the pistol to her head and fired.
>The explosion filled all that sad little park. Some of the horses shied and stepped. A fistsized hole erupted out of the far side of the woman's head in a great vomit of gore and she pitched over and lay slain in her blood without remedy. Glanton had already put the pistol at halfcock and he flicked away the spent primer with his thumb and was preparing to recharge the cylinder.
>McGill, he said.
>A Mexican, solitary of his race in that company, came forward. >Get that receipt for us.

Long descriptions of scenery aside, McCarthy can do descriptions that are so visceral it's like I'm actually the Kid watching it happen. That scene stood out to me, to me it was more horrific than the baby tree or apache slaughter scenes.

>> No.4513601

>>4513350
DID YOU READ THE PART WHERE HE SAID WAR IS THE MOST POWERFUL THING OF ALL. FUKING CHILLS BRO, SO EVIL

>> No.4513616

>>4513490
Yeah, that passage stood out to me too. There's a mexican standoff in the book that's written beautifully as well. I wish I'd noted down the page.

>> No.4513633

>>4513302
Read this about 2 weeks ago and I couldn't stand it. Story was decent, but I can only read 3 pages of description on the arid desert and vacuous similes for so long before it is so off-putting I can't remember wtf was going on. The combination of the verbose over-descriptions and lack of any punctuation (why the fuck did he eschew from quotation marks) made it unbearable.

>> No.4514765

>>4513302
I dislike him, but that might be due to the fact he isn't translated in my language, so I tried reading him in english and failed.

>> No.4514782

>>4513601
Shhhhhhhhh.

>>4513490

My favourite extract...

>... When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.

>> No.4514844

>>4513341
I just started reading, 100 pages in. Although i agree with the interpretation it also takes away some of the novel, maybe that's what interpretation does, but for me it's just as much about lonelines and desolation as it is about violence, also the non-violent mythical language gives it, i don't know, a religious feel.

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4515462

How GoT fans want Blood Meridian to be:

>Holden rapes the Kid at the outset
>the Kid is on a bloody path of revenge
>Glanton is a bad guy who was also raped by Holden
>we feel sorry for him when the Kid kills him
>the Kid has a number of taxing relationships with men/women because he's a brooding rape victim
>realizes he is Holden!!!!!!!