Last Updated: November 24, 2018 (Refresh Now)
Blood Meridian Or the Evening Redness in the West
Last Updated: November 24, 2018 (Refresh Now)
8.1
SCORE
/10
Total Reviews
999
Old Reviews
600
Unverified
242
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249.48 grams
WEIGHT
4326 meters
SIZE
Review Analysis - 157 recent, verified reviews
Detailed Mode
Design
11writing style, prose, novel, style, character
+91%
-9%
" ... Haunting, twisted, perverse, any yet hypnotically beautiful. ... "
" ... This book employs an engaging writing style. ... The characters are presented as masks with no inner dialogue much like in Worm Ouroboros, which is written in a faux epic style like the Icelandic sagas. ... The author tries to create a fascinating character like Lord Gro with the Judge, but I thought this a pale mockery as well. ... "
" ... And sometimes they evoke great beauty. ... "
" ... Cormac McCarthy has a unique writing style that is not for everyone. ... "
" ... You have to be focused because the book is written so descriptive and with so much detail. ... "
" ... The prose is beautiful and evocative, and at the same the writing style is sparse. ... "
" ... beauty and violence and cruelty and desolation. ... "
" ... This darkly beautiful novel of the Border Southwest is written in a wonderfully poetic and modern prose, with McCarthy's remarkable characterizations. ... "
Comfort
10book, violence, mccarthy, characters, sentences
+60%
-40%
" ... Beautiful, difficult (Have a dictionary at hand), violent, metaphors galore ... "
" ... Set in the old west, the book follows the exploits of a young and almost anonymous “Kid” as he falls in with a band of scalp hunters. ... "
" ... That's the best word you could use to describe blood meridian. ... "
" ... This book employs an engaging writing style. ... "
" ... But it was the kind of splinter whose pain and beauty you want to feel before you finally dislodge it in a final act of defiance. ... When I finished I was glad to be done with it and just felt like sleeping, and yet I will re-read it at some point in time ... "
" ... I like how he just springs new characters on you. ... "
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Body
Weight: 249.48 grams
Size: 4326 meters
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