I think a video game based off just him would do way better than a movie off the book.

I don't want to hear you out, fuck you

who?

>>713653737
the only book /v/ has ever read

>>713653563 (OP)
Looks like a white Thanos.

>>713653796
I dont even think most of /v/ has actually read it.

>>713653796
Harry Potter?

>>713653563 (OP)
BAH GAWD ITS KANE!

>>713653563 (OP)
why are chuds so obsessed with this book?

Why is this book so famous in America anyway? It’s barely known outside of the US

>>713653796
The scarlet pimpernel?

>>713653997
>>713653796
>>713654042
What book retard?

>>713653563 (OP)
So Garry's mod in the old west with god mode turned on?

>>713653563 (OP)
That book sucked and Holden is gay as hell. The literary equivalent of your run-of-the-mill seasonal FotM edgy anime for retarded teenage edgelords.

>>713653796
Mein Kampf?

>>713653796
Playgirl magazine?

He's a big guy.

>>713654105
50 shades of grey, that should've been obvious considering how grey the dude in the OP is.

>>713653563 (OP)
It's called New Vegas Bounties

>>713653796
dunno i've read around 20

>>713654204
>that head

It would have to be an H-game

>>713653796
The Book of the New Sun?

>>713653997
It's cool

>>713654105
Bone Ecuator

>>713654105
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
>>713654042
It is a cynical play on America's past and how fucked up it was in reality. The best audience for this book are Americans who have a cursory knowledge of their history.

>>713653563 (OP)
Ah Mortarion

>>713653796
This book?

>>713653563 (OP)
ok hear me out
i think OP is a faggot

>>713654105
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. Bad book by a mediocre author many impressionable /lit/ virgins have been tricked into reading and defending because Harold Bloom claimed it was good.

>>713654840
real literature

>>713654958
I bet the only reason you know what book they're even talking about is because that youtube guy talked about it

>>713654204
he is described as having a baby face due to his immortality

Every chud on the planet would buy this game. It would RDR as the top western.

>>713653796
You haven't read it

>>713653796
nigger they don't even read filenames lmaooo

>>713655215
*reads it*
now what, little boy?

>>713653563 (OP)
Is the Judge natty?

>>713654958
I enjoyed it but I am kind of disappointed that everyone just pays all of their attention to the judge and what he might represent as opposed to the other themes of the book as >>713654748
mentioned. Yeah the judge is fucked up but he isn't the entire fucking book.

>>713653796
The 3 Body Problem?

>>713655069
>That YouTube guy
Huh? I've read McCarthy, idiot. Meridian, Suttree, Pretty Horses, The Road and a few cursory glances at that shitty posthumous book(s). A terrible writer.

>>713653796
no longer human?

If the book was worth reading they would've made it into a movie

>>713654042
Because its an American story by an American author (among the best the country has) set in a uniquely American setting?

>>713655453
why you keep reading a guy who you don't like? honest question
the only guy i read often is bowkoski

>>713653796
I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream?

>>713655506
Good books don't make good movies. There is not a single worthwhile adaptation of Miserables, Moby-Dick, Ulysses, Lolita or Master and Margarita. Itsall about that prose, baby. McCarthy is a cheap, watered down Faulkner for retards. Adding As I Lay Dying and Sound and Fury to the list of prose too dope for Hollywood.

>>713653563 (OP)
Thats a white man!

>>713655535
I love the art form and will read any author who reaches prominence to better understand them and the culture that celebrates their prestige. I've read Sally Rooney and Rupi Kaur. I shit on them all day.
>Bukowski
A good writer.

>>713653796
Lolita

>>713654748
This goes hard

>>713656192
Fr no cap this shit bussin

>>713655673
Les Misérables movie was good, just that Russel Crowe's singing is awful. The Count of Monte Cristo is also better than the book and so is Barry Lyndon.

>>713653563 (OP)
Ah, Blood Meridian, monsieur? That novel is the sark and chaparral of literature, the filament whereon rode the remuda of highbrow, corraled out of some destitute hacienda upon the arroyo, quirting and splurting with main and with pyrolatrous coagulate of lobated grandiloquence. Our eyes rode over the pages, monsieur, of that slatribed azotea like argonauts of suttee, juzgados of swole, bights and systoles of walleyed and tyrolean and carbolic and tectite and scurvid and querent and creosote and scapular malpais and shellalagh. We scalped, monsieur, the gantlet of its esker and led our naked bodies into the rebozos of its mennonite and siliceous fauna, wallowing in the jasper and the carnelian like archimandrites, teamsters, combers of cassinette scoria, centroids of holothurian chancre, with pizzles of enfiladed indigo panic grass in the saltbush of our vigas, true commodores of the written page, rebuses, monsieur, we were the mygale spiders too and the devonian and debouched pulque that settled on the frizzen studebakers, listening the wolves howling in the desert while we saw the judge rise out of a thicket of corbelled arches, whinstone, cairn, cholla, lemurs, femurs, leantos, moonblanched nacre, uncottered fistulas of groaning osnaburg and kelp, isomers of fluepipe and halms awap of griddle, guisado, piloncillo.

was the judge even real?

>>713653796
I did a report on it in high school because I googled "books with gnostic themes." I still cringe about it to this day.

>>713653796
I don't like extreme violence/sex in books so I avoid McCarthy like the plague. From what I've extrapolated, he's extremely pretentious

>>713656340
in the context of the story?
yes
in real life?
supposedly he was based on a real person but it is not really known who exactly

>>713656306
I loathe the Miserables movie but you're right about Cristo. I accept defeat.

>>713656474
is that tier list supposed to be how morally good the protagonists are? I get not liking Breeze but how is anyone else in Kelsier's crew bad morally?

>>713656920
No it's ranking how much I like each book. The quotes are just for fun

>>713656474
Are you a girl or what? The list is terrible. Literary equivalent Fortnite.

>>713657298
I'm a 31 year old man

>>713653796
Gay porn?

>>713654836
mortarion would be covered in shit

>Judge this, judge that
I want a game about the Kid.

>>713657763
This guy bottoms.

>>713657819
I'll be the judge of that

I remember reading this when I was 15 and thinking it was silly, my dad gave me as a present

>/vlit/
Why did Atlas Shrug, /v/?

>>713654958
It's fucking weird what bits of irrelevant shit people pick up from Harold Bloom. Cormac is great, but no one will mention Harold's gay ass name until someone brings up the GOAT, then he's quoted - just the one quote - like ad nauseum. No discernable talent my amputated foot.

>>713658001
Your dad was trying to teach you the birds and the bees without actually talking to you about it. You know what book my dad bought me as a present?

>>713656315
You got the picture where he's hunting punctuation?

>>713658110
because it is a dystopia where the "intellectuals" stopped taking responsibility for the world's problems and it went to shit.

>>713656474
how autistic do you have to be to put this much effort into bait

>>713658372
Yes, but why? Why did Francisco d'Anconia ask Atlas to shrug?

>>713653563 (OP)
Hunt: Showdown has an event on that sort of references him. Looks like Holden, but doesn't really act like him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HThYAlBxOV8

>>713656315
What you wrote isn't even nonsense, it's completely understandable.

>>713653796
/v/ also loves the turner diaries even though it is an objectively awfully written book

>rape kill rape kill, what is a man?
>becomes American classic
kek

>>713653563 (OP)
I look like this

>>713653563 (OP)
Only if they change the ending so he is brutally killed.

>>713658282
I dunno about that, man
reading about some teen beating his meat with actual meat, getting beat off by a girl and cumming in her eyes, then as an adult dating a fat but intelligent girl, only to dump her for the hot dumb bitch and going about using her to satisfy his perversions, just to then abandon her in some hotel in europe, finishing the work with a punchline which the whole book was a set up to felt like a very silly read to me

>>713658787
No you don't.

tf is up with these zesty ass paintings

>>713658992
It's ai shit and the judge is almost always either partially or completely naked.

>>713653563 (OP)
The Judge doesn't look like that

He is not meant to be a main character. But leading the band of psychos would be a game

>>713656315
This pasta is what reading BM is actually like, just pages and pages of this shit

>>713659374
You're better off adapting the 3:10 to Yuma film with Bale and Crowe. At least that has an antagonist that can be reasoned with despite being the evilest motherfucker in the West.

>>713659409
It's painting with words.

>>713659509
I like the BM idea because at some point you will encounter marshals or groups of people and you wont even feel like rules are real anymore or that their titles are a thing.

>>713653563 (OP)
There already is one

>>713656474
faggot

>>713659409
>this is just like my ebin 4chan pasta!!!

>>713653796
*read wikipedia summary of.

>>713656230
Imagine getting scalped and that being the last thing you ever heard.

>>713653796
I've read Fate Stay/Night. Does it count?

>>713653563 (OP)
Why did he throw those dogs in the river? to subvert the rational of commerce in favor of violence or some such I dont know, or for the lulz?

>>713655248
fucking loled

more like holden deez nuts

>>713653563 (OP)
The bisexual pedophile?

>>713653796
i only read up until he fights the guy in the mud. the prose is good but the nihilism is boring

>>713653563 (OP)
He's described as looking like a great infant

The Judge is the personification of a fight. Not war, violence, but of a struggle between wills where one will asserts itself over another and justifies its rightness from the act of forceful dominance, not agreed upon morals. He asserts that those who possess the strength and will to impose their violence upon others must do so or else it isn't the truth. The Judge kills the Man at the end of the book because the Man, despite possessing sublime talent with killing and violence, is passive and willing to live and let live, which goes against the entire assertion of the Judge, who dances because he can and will. The world has no place for dancers who refuse to dance, that would be a violation of dancing itself, so the Judge takes the Man and kills him, asserting his truth over the passive philosophy of the Man.

>>713669893
For >>713666504

Because he can, and must.

>>713655528
>uniquely American
Like half of it takes place in messico though

The judge has small hands, and the Kid has large hands. All those dead kids? have large handprints around their neck. The Kid was always evil.

>>713670509
Grok says you're full of shit

>>713669893
This is similar to my thoughts on the Judge. I personally think what he is looking for in people is a willingness to express their free will. The Judge seems to have great interest in people who might forge their own path, and those who end up doing so (such as Grannyrat and Tobin) end up with unknown fates. To me, they escaped not just the Judge but the Judge's story. We will never know for sure what happened to them because they exerted their will. Others, like Black Jackson, Glanton, and Toadvine ultimately resign themselves to fate/the Judge's story, and thus they receive definitive, on-page deaths.

The Kid/Man, however, is an anomaly. He never embraces his free will to separate from the Judge, but he likewise never embraces the Judge. He just drifts about, never deciding what he really is. Thus the Judge meets him one final time and gives him one final chance to join or reject the dance. The Man once more, does neither. Thus he gets a unique fate, in that we know it is horrible but do not see what it is.

>>713670509
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't the large hand prints only mentioned in the historical account of the Judge, not the novel? Either way, The Judge is constantly shown to be around children; playing with the native boy before snapping his neck, baiting kids with candy, even having a naked child in his tent during the Yuma raid. He's pretty explicitly the one doing the child murders/rapes.

>>713653563 (OP)
just read the actual book not that faggot book written by faggot author who just made a fan fiction version of it.

My Confession: The Recollections of a Rogue

>>713670509
Im reading the book again and none of the dead kids are mentioned on how they are killed. Also, its notable that the kid is noticeably absent in the descriptions of violence. The kid is never even mentioned taking any scalps. Meanwhile, the judge, scalps an Indian kid right in front of toadvine, who then puts his gun to the judges head.

>>713666504
for the lulz. judge is /b/ personified.

I'd fuck this twink's corpse. I put a 357 to his temple and keep pulling the trigger until I hear click, over. Get him while he's warm.

I want Mistborn, but god knows anyone and everyone would fuck it up. It's thinly veiled Mormon wankery, but Mormon metaphysics works perfectly for vidya.
Also I'm convinced Dark Souls was more than a little bit based on Elantris.

>>713671880
The kids large hands are only mentioned in the beginning of the book when describing his physique, during the time the kid spent fighting random guys in bars every night.

>white man bad

>>713672163
Everyone is bad in Blood Meridian dumbass.

>>713659509
That was one of the good westerns made. Arguably the last.

>>713672260
I'd say The Assassination of Jesse James (same year) and the True Grit remake are great too. We need more Western kino though. It seems like Hollywood's modern sensibilities make that nigh-impossible though.

>>713672570
The latest Viggo Mortenson one - The Dead Don't Hurt - was interesting, but it's sort of an anti-Western/epitaph of Westerns like Unforgiven.
It's a classic genre and I think you need a certain breadth of knowledge and appreciation for what really works to appreciate it. There's potential for Chinese films to do something similar given their long history of bandits out west and all that, but yeah, I'm not holding my breath.

>>713653563 (OP)
What, the alien from Prometheus?

>>713653563 (OP)
i can take him

>>713672796
>The Dead Don't Hurt
That movie was pure white female fantasy

>4/10 that is fawned over by a wealthy aristocrat, a brawny outdoorsman, and the local ruffian
>picks whichever one she wants
>gets "raped" while she has a gun and could've just shot the guy (she actually wanted it)
>with her womanly faggot bullshit she can convince him to not go on the warpath while she's still alive, she's so in control and in charge #girlpower
>vigo raises the other man's rape baby
>she gets to die and still be a burden to several people in the process

I'm surprised there wasn't a bit where she stands on a soapbox and clamors for open borders migration

>>713672163
inhumanly pale man bad

>>713672225
Except for the women, females in BM could literally do no wrong.

So, you have to be a dickward to survive in this world, huh? That's fucking gay.

>>713673282
I guess this is how africains see europeans

>>713673410
>inhumanly pale and proportioned completely differently in face and body language
>voice that sounds like nothing they've ever heard before
>everything that exists he can explain or subjugate, capture and study
>seemingly commands life and death, curing illnesses for which they had no names and which they could not understand, brings forth industrialization that can upend mountains and drain seas
Yeah, to them, we really are The Judge.

>>713673729
If the Führer was alive he would not let this happen

>>713673729
Then why did I get in trouble for scalping that mestizo the other day? This is bullshit I tell you

>>713673365
A lot of women were prostitutes, that's arguably as bad as you can get at the time. They weren't really gun toting like men were.

>>713672796
>There's potential for Chinese films to do something similar given their long history of bandits out west and all that
That'd be cool. Historical pseudo-Westerns are way too rare. Witchfinder General is probably my favorite.

>he is a great favorite, the judge, he never sleeps, he says he will never die

how did he do it boys, how did he write the most kino book ending

Just shut the fuck up already is it not enough that you spergs ruin /lit/ daily with your bullshit the book isn’t even that good and the judge isn’t all that interesting

>>713673729
>The Judge tilted his grey head, "The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will, by the decision alone, have taken charge of the world. And it is only by such taking charge that he will affect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate."
>"I don't see what that has to do with catching birds"
>"The freedom of birds is an insult to me. I'd have them all in zoos."
>"That would be a HELL of a zoo."
>The Judge smiled. "Yes", he said. "Even so."
The Judge is a devil masquerading as a human to bring humanity down, anon.

>>713653563 (OP)
What would you even do in this video game? Wander around the Mexican desert drawing flowers and killing Indians?

>>713653563 (OP)
An open world loli/shota murder and rape simulator? Yeah, /v/ would love this.

>>713658001
Your dad sounds fucking awesome

>>713675732
What, you need more?

>>713675715
define humanity

>>713653563 (OP)
Pretty sure Destiny pulled that whole Sword Logic thing from the Judge

>>713676621
The state of the Christian humane

>>713676731
What sword logic?

>>713657598
you're a faggot?

>>713676853
The philosophy/religion of one of the enemy races. Got several lore texts about it.

>>713653563 (OP)
For me? It's Child of God. The best Cormac novel.

Judge did what he did because he was bald.

>>713677795
I'm reading about it and it reads like it's just social Darwinism.

>>713678076
I did a quick search it seems like some of the texts(Unveiling, Books of Sorrow, Ghost Fragment: Hellmouth) straight up reference the book so it's a clear cut case.

>One of your philosophers said, "It is not to be thought that the life of darkness is sunk in misery and lost in sorrow. There is no sorrow. For sorrow is a thing that is swallowed up in death, and death and dying are the very life of the darkness." He was a shoemaker. He was right, and it matters more than anything

>Our gods should be ours alone. Their smug freedom is an insult to me. I’d shut them all in cells.

>I want to appear in the Tower and taunt them, lo, lo, I never sleep, I dance in light and shadow, I never sleep, I will never die. I will never die. I want to ask them: if you followed your laws here, to this trembling fearful place, of what use were those laws?

>>713678353
Oh you mean in a literal text sense. Yeah that looks very similar.

>>713653563 (OP)
Why did you post my D4 barbarian?

>>713653796
Of mice and men?

>>713678076
I mean, the whole thing also follows "war is god" to a T

>>713678903
No.

>>713655248
>>713662089
kek'd

>>713653563 (OP)


Wendigoon really introduced this man to a new era of fans

>>713653563 (OP)
I don't think we'll ever get a Blood Meridian or Judge Holden video game.

Firstly because it would essentially be "No Russian: The Video Game." Brutal violence for its own sake, mostly against innocent people more often than not.

Secondly because Judge Holden likes to get up to shit that would actually be illegal to depict in video game format in most countries.

Thirdly, he's known for giving elaborate sermons that I would not trust most video game writers to do correctly.

>>713679281
For what it's worth, though, here's ChatGPT's attempt at making a Judge Holden sermon.

>>713679052
For example, this excerpt from Books of Sorrows
>The fate of everything is made like this, in the collision, the test of one praxis against another. This is how the world changes: one way meets a second way, and they discharge their weapons, they exchange their words and markets, they contest and in doing so they petition each other for the right to go on being something, instead of nothing. This is the universe figuring out what it should be in the end.
Is pretty much
>War is the truest form of divination. It is the testing of one’s will and the will of another within the larger will which because it binds them is therefore forced to select.

>>713653796
Read the posts here and tell me you honestly believe /v/ is literate enough to comprehend McCarthy's run-on sentences.

>>713679741
It sounded just fine in audiobook form

>>713655819
where's your book, limpdick

>>713653685
fpbp

>>713674346
Black 47 looks interesting but I don't know if it's any good - the Irish Famine isn't too common a setting for films.
For those yet unaware Yojimbo is well worth seeing.

>>713658710
If it's awfully written why do you love it?

>>713653563 (OP)
I will never understand why and how the internet suddenly became obsessed with this book.

>>713683384
some moderately popular eceleb/streamer must have mentioned it, and so sufficiently large enough of his target audience decided to make it part of their personality

>>713662215
Massacred by the Gucci Gang

>>713683384
Several of famous youtubers like it and praised it. But if you a small grain of individuality, you will realize how generic this book seems. Conflict and violence bad, women good, men bad - same old message in modern media but depicted in an edgy, tryhard manner.

>>713679281
>Brutal violence for its own sake, mostly against innocent people more often than not.
Hello? Did you forget our waifu, Not Important?

>>713683384
Its always been discussed on here and everything popular in modern culture trickles down from here or the deep hood

>>713686051
>women good
Where are you getting that?

>>713686394
All villainous characters in the story are male.

>>713653563 (OP)
>Judge Holden
Hold these nuts.

>>713686448
Yeah because it's about stuff happening, not wearing dresses, doing makeup, and sucking dicks.

There are almost no female characters to speak of whatsoever.

>>713686495
>Women can't be evil because they wear dresses!
Based retard

>>713683384
Some YouTubers mentioned Judge Holden as "the most evil literary character ever." Blood Meridian also got this reputation of being essentially "Old West Berserk" with violent and fucked up shit seemingly happening on every other page.

>>713686275
Remember that they gave that game the old Adults Only rating and was banned in Australia and Germany.

>>713688914
Not really because of the violence, it is actually pretty tame compares to MK or an average Suda 51 game. It got banned in several places because of the glorification of terrorism. Not Important triggered a city wide nuclear exlosion and the game makes it look like a total victory instead of putting in some gay message at the end like " war is le bad ".

>>713687425
How do you get that from what I said? There are no female characters to focus on because it's a story where events take place.

If it was a story about sipping tea and bitching about everything then there would be female characters abound, or europeans but that's redundant.

>>713689560
What elements in BM that prevents it from having a vile female murderer with a habbit of flaying people alive?

>>713690001
realism

>>713690103
>Women that aren't evil
>Realism
Pick one

>>713654958
you're a pseud

>>713656474
Based list. I remember choosing Revenge of the Sith for a book report in primary school.