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Blood Meridian

Or the Evening Redness in the West

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Blood Meridian

By: Cormac McCarthy
Narrated by: Richard Poe
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Author of the National Book Award-winning All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy is one of the most provocative American stylists to emerge in the last century. The striking novel Blood Meridian offers an unflinching narrative of the brutality that accompanied the push west on the 1850s Texas frontier. Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Scary Emotionally Gripping Old West Wild West
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“The authentic American apocalyptic novel…I venture that no other living American novelist, not even Pynchon, has given us a book as strong and memorable as Blood Meridian.” (Harold Bloom)
"McCarthy is a writer to be read, to be admired, and quite honestly envied." (Ralph Ellison)
"McCarthy is a born narrator, and his writing has, line by line, the stab of actuality. He is here to stay." (Robert Penn Warren)
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i tried to read this years ago but gave up after an hour. glad to have found it here. amazing.

fantastic

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I loved The Road, but I couldn’t get into this story. It was a real struggle to finish.

Overrated

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Best Mcarthy novel. Best American novelist alive today. The violence might be too much for some, but it's an accurate reflection of the times. Brilliant.

Amazing

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Poe's gruff rattling tones lazily yet clearly enunciate each of McCarthy's carefully selected words, to describe both tremendous beauty and terrible violence which equal lucidity.

Outstanding!

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To be honest, I had a 3-star experience.
If you are not a native speaker, it is like hell to listen to this recording. But it's not due to the reader's performance nor the qualities of the book itself, but rather because of the way they work together.
I much regret not reading it and I believe that it would be the most proper way to truly feel the story and engage yourself in it.

Otherwise, it is a true gem. So different from everything you would imagine. It is a strange mixture of meaningless slaughter and brutality on one hand and deeply philosophical narratives, presented through the most simple words and emotions.
I was touched by the ouroboros motives about the never-ending, never-changing, self-destructive nature/faith of mankind.

The narrator conveyed the dull, senseless atmosphere perfectly in his characteristic, primarily monotonous, yet somehow pleasing and calming manner.

A deeply brutal odyssey

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