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Blood Meridian

Or the Evening Redness in the West

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Blood Meridian

Written by: Cormac McCarthy
Narrated by: Richard Poe
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Summary
 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 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 don’t do westerns. They’ve always been a genre I’ve never really had much interest in. However, thanks to multiple tiktok reels and Facebook book club recommendations I decided to give it a shot. I’m glad I did. I’ve never read (listened) anything as visceral, poetic, and confusing as this story. It’s violence is top tier, as in you feel as though you are bearing witness in the flesh as the countless terrible events unfold in this epic drama.
If you love westerns and compelling realism and want to feel every stab, every dry mouth from thirst, and jaw dropping moments of base animal acts of degeneracy, this is going to keep your brain processing what you’ve just endured for days, if not weeks, to come.

Raw and Unapologetic

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This is hard to listen to (McCarthy's style) but utterly gut-wrenching and stays with you.

Jesus Christ

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The greatest journey story in modern literature. Raw and brutal, subtle and powerful. Epic in every sense of the word.

And they rode on…

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It’s McCarthy. It is very good. Give it a try. Here are five more words.

It’s as good as I expected.

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Absolutely loved it. One of those audiobooks where the writing and the narrator’s performance come together in an exceptionally complimentary way. Dark, brutal and thought-provoking with a genuinely interesting (if morally bankrupt) set of characters. Can’t recommend it enough.

An Actual Masterpiece

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