Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy - The first few pages
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- The first few pages of Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. This is one of my favorite novels and has haunted me ever since I first listened to the audiobook over a year ago.
"The narrative follows a teenage runaway referred to only as "the kid", with the bulk of the text devoted to his experiences with the Glanton gang, a historical group of scalp hunters who massacred Indians and others in the United States--Mexico borderlands in 1849 and 1850. The role of antagonist is gradually filled by Judge Holden, a large, intelligent man depicted as entirely devoid of body hair and emblematic of violence and conflict."
Just in total awe of the man's writing. He's the sort of author that inspires you to write and at the same time makes you want to give it up entirely because you know you'll never be that good.
Yes. This. I could not say it any better.
never more than each time i go to read him do i feel compelled to at least try for 30 or 40% as good as his worst book, whichever that may be, and which as i understand it is an argument among many of his fans.
Rest in power, Cormac McCarthy. One of the only American writers whose output will undoubtedly stand the test of time for centuries to come.
His work will live on until language itself dies.
You pick this book up and you know it's a masterpiece in the first few sentences. Such unbelievable prose.
One of the greatest novels ever written
Richard Poe is masterful in this audiobook.
Hearing it read so well is fantastic, but I'm pretty sure everyone agrees that reading it is intoxicating.
I am coming 11 years late to agree with you. And I also have been listening to a bunch of Hall and Oates lately so I feel like I'm a decade behind having a fun conversation
McCarthy is a master of literature, Blood Meridian greatest novel written in any language since 1960
“Not again in all the world's turning will there be terrains so wild and barbarous to try whether the stuff of creation may be shaped to man's will”
What a way to describe the Wild West
Absolutely incredible book.
He doesn't get Stephen King or Stephanie Meyer book sales, but he's done quite well after getting public recognition. His earliest books (like Child of God) are so demented and such a chore to read that it took awhile for his writing to get noticed. Also, he did absolutely nothing to promote or market his work. He doesn't seem all that interested in his audience.
God how the stars did fall.
See the child...
There are famous stories of him and his wife practically starving in those early days while he turned down paid readings.
3:00 this is one of the fascinating excerpts from this book. (One of myriad). The “standing over them where they lie bleeding in the mud he feels mankind itself vindicated” really made me think. A great example of the depth and almost esoteric writing of McCarthy.
It is not. The poetry in this first passage is amazing.
Listen to the sentence structure 1:36 "he will not see again the kitchen house in the pre-dawn dark"
Listen from their on in to the sentences, the alliteration, the sentence structures, the ingenious simile. It's as good as writing gets.
hauntingly, horribly beautiful.
And in him already broods a taste for mindless violence...
The child the father of the man.
A Masterpiece!
"And in him broods already a taste for mindless violence "
"Only now is the child finally divested of all that he has been. His origins are become remote as is his destiny and not again in all the world's turning will there be terrains so wild and barbarous to try whether the stuff of creation may be shaped to man's will or whether his own heart is not another kind of clay."
KlCKASS ,rats and jugglin' gerbils
Can't find my copy of Blood
I really love 'All the pretty horses '
Atmospheric genius in Carthy's worlds
Just read the book. After your first read through then go back to where he meets captain white read through again. start again where glanton frees him from the prison and he joins the gang. And then start at the beginning and read again
Haunting
Looking forward to reading this...
Its excellent. One of my favorite reads thus far.
No, they sell well.
They didn't before he gained fame with all the pretty horses, but they sell well now.
@floppykid Absolutely. I really loved the reader's tone and voice. I bought the book afterwards. I read it when I can, and listen to it when I work.
Superb !
An awesome blue print for the next soul reaver
Im enjoying this book but am disturbed by the judges murdering of children for no reason. Is he the devil incarnate? Is that how theyve all seen him before in one place or another? Or how he saved them and created gun powder in the malpais?
I don't believe he is THE devil. Rather I think he is a demon. Or possibly a djinn (like a genie but evil and cunning). The volcano and gunpowder section gives clue to that. And there's a scene where Glanton wants to shoot a Mexican soothsayer woman and the Judge is described as walking through the flames of a campfire unharmed to restrain him. That and he never ages.
I think that's the hint.
I think he is manifest destiny incarnate. A twisted version of the American Dream.
@sethdesade
Listening to this, and rereading the Judge's last words to The Kid reveals some rather disturbing links.
floppykid it's called motif
Joshua Graham reads me Blood Meridian? Where do I sign up?
EVEN though his books have been made into huge Hollywood films I hear his books don't sell well even today..........Is that true?
Mastery
Tried reading some of this on my channel. It's very difficult, but fun.
Dom's Sketch Cast holy shit, it’s you.
Wtf
💎💎💎
What os the title of this narration or who is the narrator?
Richard Poe
I disagree.
And in him broods already a taste for mindless violence...