Meridiano de Sangre / Blood Meridian (Paperback)

from jpporter

Another reason to admire Cormac McCarthy. His minimalist prose style is effective here in providing us with a brutal story about American incursions into Mexico in the early 19th Century. The novel follows "the kid," a run-away from Tennessee who finds himself in Texas, around the age of 15, bein...

from gonzobrarian

In addition to watching the recent movie No Country for Old Men and reading The Road, I thought I'd explore Cormac McCarthy more deeply by reading his novel Blood Meridian. I'd heard about it from friends and intrigued for a good story, I dove in. Thrown in is more appropriate, like an infant int...

from DCArchitect

This can be a hard book to read. While the language can be dense, at times archaic, it is the absolute horror and savagery of the character's actions and the excruciating detail Mr. McCarthy employs to relate them that daunts the reader. Don't let that stop you. This is a tremendous piece of writ...

from The_Wiz

When I read this book it reminded me of a passage from Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game - "only those who kill have power; and those who don't are subjects to those who do." (Of course this was all written after McCarthy's work, but my reading list does not follow in chronological order.) McCarthy...

from kettle666

Blood Meridian, by Cormac McCarthy, is the most overwhelming novel I've read for years. I came late to it in two senses. It's almost 20 years since it was published in 1985, and it is late in my own reading life, because I'm 63. I read it on holiday. Not a comfortable choice, and certainly not th...