It’s too much

>>24489340 (OP)
>It’s too much
Well next time you let Cormac fuck you get an episiotomy.

it insists upon itself

Too much what?

>>24489401
in this case it really does.

I like the themes and all the gnostic symbolism but goddamn this is painful to get through for most of it. I got 60 pages left to read and l'm looking at the other books on my desk I wanna start after this like they're ripe pussies.

>>24489784
Why is it painful?

>>24489787
Something about 80% of the book being descriptions of the desert and hills and forests and steppe in a prose I don't think I really enjoy. Some moments are powerful even during setting descriptions but it get very repetitive after a certain point. When I see two characters starting to talk I get all excited, then they just say a couple lines of dialogue, one turns his head and spits on the ground, then setting again. Inb4 I'm very much a character enjoyer obviously.

>>24489811
The ending will change your opinion and force you to re-evaluate the book

>>24489811
To each their own. I found the landscape desctiptions the best part about the book.

Tho I did read a translated version of the book.

>>24489825
Hope so! I'll try to plow through it today and tomorrow

I listened to an audiobook of this dogshit. How this gets praised is beyond me. Sure, you laugh at the edginess or at the funny albino man but this is just so bad.
glanton spat and then they rode on.
stfu

>>24489340 (OP)
You just don't get it artistic merit literally rots there are literally amounts of being known by others that a thing can be that changes what it is so that Blood Meridian is now no longer a good book because some guy made a youtube essay about it that got a bunch of views /lit/ is a serious board for serious readers of serious books you gotta listen to /lit/ anon be a good goy and throw every baby out with the bathwater at the slightest provocation

>>24489871
You're a philistine

read Suttree instead its the superior book and it has a lot more going for it being a slice of life novel about a man thrusting himself into the dredges of old knoxville as a sort of penance for his lack of drive, very funny alkie story too

>>24489784
if i remember correctly the last 100 pages is the best part of the book, becomes a page turner thats easier to chew through, the judge shootout is peak western

>>24489871
Glanton and Judge are 2 of the greatest characters in western history whether literature or film

>>24489641
There’s very little diversity. The pre-2015 iteration of the word.
Riding on horses. Gore. Little villa. Gore. Tough riding. Man it’s so tough. Gore. More rough riding. Gore.
So much it desensitizes you to the point of disinterest. 2nd act loses most people I’m sure. I’m getting through fewer pages each time I open it.

Also a glossary would have been appreciated. I’m fine not knowing words but I can’t glean the meaning of a word through context clues if I don’t know what the other 10 words in the phrase are.

>>24491125
the 2nd half is stronger than the first imo, though the first probably has the most iconic descriptive prose of the desert among other things

>>24491153
I’m glad to know. At the part rn where the Kid got separated from the company for like an hour and the last of the Delawares got strung up by the heels and I wish it had lasted substantially longer. I’m fine with a blank character to be the readers viewpoint but the Kid doesn’t even get mentioned for whole chapters in a row.
I guess I’m glad I can’t predict too much at this point

found out about this band yesterday, apparently they wrote an album inspired by BM. Sort of psychedelic doomy rock I suppose, maybe some of you will like it.

https://youtu.be/UHRYkQLjKJU

https://open.spotify.com/track/415DrbGl25Dk1mM8ANlFLn
https://genius.com/Messa-void-meridian-lyrics

>>24491185
You are the kid. You aren't being told what to think, you're experiencing the actions of the Glanton gang through his lense, even if it has little impact to their overall course.

>>24489340 (OP)
Not enough

finished it a bit ago and thought it was fine
you fags are lame

>>24495143
OP here. I also did and I bet a reread would help me elevate my opinion of it as a 9.5/10

>>24489401
>family guy sloppa thinks he has an opinion on actual literature

>>24489811
This is the type of book you get in audiobook form and go hiking in the desert while listening

>>24495143
We are a frail lot. Barely able to call ourselves men.

>>24489784
Shit aint even long feller. Go read a 900 page long dense history book and those there books will start looking like prime cunny.

>>24489811
Cormac was simply born a century too late, if he had Romantic peers then he would have been able to hone his craft due to the competition

>>24489340 (OP)

>>24489811
lol pleb

You're supposed to underline the slurs, not read it.

>AHHHH THE GUITAR RIFFS
>AHHH THE DRUMS ARE TOO INTENSE
stick to AI lofi retard

>>24499144
Too many commas

>>24489340 (OP)
i found it boring af. riding horses and shit. oh look the mountains have clouds in the distance. everything is violent. oh no the horse got bitten by a snake. snore

>>24499732
Like the sea, It’s hard to convey into words or even photographs the real fantasy of the desert sky

>>24499791

>>24490820
I found this to be the case. The first 50 or so pages are kino but it becomes a slog once they leave the Mexican jail. But the final third becomes nonstop kino again.

would /lit/ be interested in a read-along for BM? Since it's now a meme cult book it should be required reading. How did the other ones go I never quite followed? I feel like they often choose long, difficult books that, the already illiterate sub, will never even consider. But a few judge memes might convince a few frogs to read this, plus it the perfect moment now with the heat waves approaching

It's flashman and the redskins for pseudo intellectual twenty year olds who unironically think cormac mccarthy is an obscure author
Cormac was a priveiliged yankee who had never been in a fight or experience violence in his life

>>24499469
>anime pic
Opinion disregarded

>>24489340 (OP)
Read it out loud with a cowboy accent, turns the book from a 2/5 to 4/5 or 4.5/5.

>>24501172
> it’s overrated because it just is

>>24489811
> two characters starting to talk
It's not that kind of book

>>24501172

>>24501172
Stfu zoomer, some books are just good

>>24501852
Your comment adds nothing of value.