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  • Paperback: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage (May 5, 1992)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0679728759
  • ISBN-13: 978-0679728757
  • Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.7 x 8 inches
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5.0 out of 5 starsMcCarthy's masterpiece
By Peter Kettle on October 27, 2004
Format: Paperback
Blood Meridian

by Cormac McCarthy

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 the best thing to relax with on a sunlounger, while supping a drink with a hat on. But Blood Meridian is, at the risk of sounding pretentious, on a par with Faulkner's 'As I Lay Dying' or Beckett's 'Waiting For Godot' or even that most astounding work of all, 'King Lear'. High claims, but give it a try.

You might well have to try it more than once, because it is very strong, and at times even rancid, meat. But a lot of people, after they've closed the book, might find they can't read another novel for a while.

I finished the book, and picked up another. But the pages were slipping by and all my head could think on was Blood Meridian. So I did something I very rarely do. I put the other novel down and turned back to Blood Meridian, and read it again. It's a hell of a book. And I'm not speaking particularly metaphorically. It tells us more about the human condition than most other respectable works we laud so much. Blood Meridian is original, disturbing, heretical, challenging, difficult, and awe inspiring. Just like King Lear.

Here endeth my rant.
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5.0 out of 5 starsHard work that more than rewards the effort
By Jacob G Corbin on October 17, 2005
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his was one of those things where I'd heard about the book, in bits and pieces, for years: namechecked by William Gibson in Virtual Light and by Garth Ennis in Preacher, yapped about by online friends, and requested every so often by customers at the bookstore where I once worked. You know how this kind of thing goes: after a while, all these name-droppings have a cumulative impact, flipping a little switch in your brain one day and sending you off in search of the item in question. So that's how I came to Blood Meridian - knowing the book by its notorious reputation alone and little else. Having finally finished it, I can say that its notoriety is richly deserved, but that's hardly the whole story.

The premise could be described for the ADD among you as Huckleberry Finn meets Natural Born Killers, which hardly sounds flattering, I'm sure, but bear with me. The story opens on the peregrinations of the Kid, a vicious, knife-fighting fourteen-year-old runaway from Tennessee who in 1848 drifts down the Mississippi first to New Orleans and thence to Texas, where he falls in with a rogue Army unit making a piratical raid into Mexico. After Apaches wipe out the unit in the Sonora desert, the Kid lands in a Mexican jail, where he meets and is recruited by a group of bounty hunters retained by the government to collect Indian scalps as retaliation for a string of Apache massacres in remote border villages.

Here is where the story really begins.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe Sanctity of Blood
By A Customer on April 12, 2002
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I've read all of Cormac McCarthy's earlier books set in Tennessee, such as "The Orchard Keeper" and "The Outer Dark" and I've read his "Border Trilogy" which contained the wonderful, "All the Pretty Horses." Nothing, however, that this wonderful author has written can prepare the reader for the sheer brutality and the sheer lyricism of "Blood Meridian."
The Old West portrayed in "Blood Meridian" is not the Old West of Zane Grey or even of Larry McMurtry. Images of the most horrific abound in "Blood Meridian," (charred human bones, blood-soaked scalps, a tree hung with the bodies of dead infants), all rendered in McCarthy's gorgeously lyrical writing.
As far as I'm concerned, "Blood Meridian" is McCarthy's best book, by far. It doesn't have the "feel good" qualities sometimes found in "All the Pretty Horses" but I didn't expect it to. "Blood Meridian" is the book in which McCarthy makes crystal clear the one theme that runs through all of his writing: the undeniable presence of evil in the world. The fact that he writes about this evil in language so lyrical and so elaborately beautiful only intensifies the horror of it all. We feel as though we have left the real world behind and entered into some surreal place from which no escape is possible.
"Blood Meridian," which takes place in 1847, is loosely based on actual events and is the story of a fourteen boy, known only as "the Kid." Drifting through the American Southwest, the Kid joins a disparate and bloodthirsty band of Indian-hunters-for-hire led by a mysterious and learned man called, Judge Holden.
It is after the Kid joins Judge Holden and his band that McCarthy really hits his stride. Juxtaposed next to descriptions of the most horrific and grotesque are images of the most sublime beauty.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsAn American Classic
By Bruddy Dahl on November 20, 2001
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I recently saw Harold Bloom, the famous literary scholar from Yale, on a television show where he stated that Blood Meridian was the greatest work of any contemporary American author. I agree. First, you have the prose style, which is so controlled and crafted and at the same time flows so naturally that it must have taken years to develop. It reminded me of the bible: hypnotic, enigmatic, ancient and at the same time, familiar. I kept thinking of the ocean when I was reading it because of the vastness of the landscape he describes. It seems as if the characters are on a journey, but they're not, unless they're circling further and further down into hell.

I think the familiarity of the novel comes from it's relation to violence from a Christian standpoint. There's no doubt that McCarthy intends to have us react to this book from a moral perspective and yet at the same time be fascinated with it's violence. The setting, the wild wicked west, is a part of the American psyche that still takes forms today in our action films and tv shows that feed our hunger for blood and murder. By taking us back to our roots, stripping away the restraints of our Judeo-Christian values, MCCarthy steeps the story of death and evil in biblical prose and washes it with blood so that we see our dark selves reflected in all our ugliness.

I compare this work to the works of the great Russian novelists ,Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, who always went for the big questions, What is life?, Who is God?, What is morality? and the American Moby Dick which encapsulated a universe. When you read books like these a lot of what appears on the bestseller lists seems so meaningless.

This is a book you simply stand in awe of if you're a writer or ever thought of being one.
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4.0 out of 5 starsExistential western

It's hard to follow at first cause he writes dialogue in the action parts so it's not written normally. Read more

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4.0 out of 5 starsBeautiful and beautifully written but absolutely brutal and savage...

Man... I needed a hug after reading this. It is a beautifully written and complex story that is absolutely savage. Read more

Published 3 days ago by Mason Miller
5.0 out of 5 starsA true classic

One of the best works of fiction I ever read.

Published 4 days ago by dissenter
5.0 out of 5 starsThis is easily the best book I've read in the last decade

This is easily the best book I've read in the last decade. This is my first book of Cormac McCarthy's. I'm sad that it has taken me this long to stumble onto his writing. Read more

Published 5 days ago by David A. Kaplowitz
1.0 out of 5 starsTerrible!

Way too... what? "Literary"? As in, "stream of UN-consciousness? As in, pretentious, maybe? Read more

Published 8 days ago by John Skye
4.0 out of 5 starsOtherwise a great book!

It's hard to read a bit, mostly because that is how Cormac McCarthy writes. Otherwise a great book!

Published 9 days ago by Amazon Customer
5.0 out of 5 starsRivals Moby Dick

Best American novel ever written.

Published 10 days ago by Kourtney Williams
4.0 out of 5 starsTypical Cormac

Typical Cormac if you have read his other work. Reminds me more of "All the Pretty Horses" than anything else. Very graphic violence, but not really suspenseful.

Published 11 days ago by cinnaframe
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

One of the greatest books ever

Published 12 days ago by J. Fraas
5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent Read

Excellent read. Reminds me of a much grittier and evil McMurty.

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