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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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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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One of the most underrated and unrecognized novels in history. An outstanding reading from Richard Poe who understands the way that the greatest American writer since WW2 wrote.

The GOAT

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One of the greatest books ever written. Great narration too. Gets even better with each reread.

The best book written by a living author

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punctuation is overrated. great villains never die. the judge is the best villain I've read since Wolf Larssen

American Western Bloodbath of Perfection

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a deep, intense and graphic novel isn't something easy to come by nor enjoy no wonder this novel is "unfilmable" so far.

never read something like this

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I really enjoyed this. McCarthy has crafted a story with an iceberg’s worth of extra meanings and insights into the humanity. And he’s managed to do so with of the ugliest and depraved outlaws you’ve ever met.
The narrator’s voice is perfect for this western story.
The main antagonist will stay with me for a long time, much like how he haunts the story’s protagonist.

Loved it. Great story. Haunting antagonist. Fantastic narrator.

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