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Blood Meridian

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Novel by Cormac McCarthy discussed in the context of the subreddit's book club, noted for its deliberately esoteric and obscure writing style with archaic vocabulary.

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"The Zoomer ran into the Millennial outside the male bathroom. -I wouldn't go in there if I was you. -Is there somebody in there? -I wouldn't go in. The Millennial offered no further counsel and moved on. With his no show socks, UNIQLO chinos, and OCBD dress shirt he seemed a ghost drifted here throu"
Blood Meridian but it's set in a Zoomer Office · u/Aluminium_Monste · ↑455 · 2024-09-10
"We all got up and moved out of the way, when out of nowhere the autistic kid (I'm not being mean, he was actually autistic) crushed it with his light-up sketchers and said 'Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.' Then he walked away. Having just finished Blood Me"
"It was holding a book and I ripped it out of its hands and it wasn't BLOOD MERIDIAN 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮"
I SAW A FAT PERSON TODAY · u/benoitrio · ↑213 · 2023-07-29
"(Blood Meridian doesn't count as a hot take, even Harold Bloom loves it.)"
What's the Great American Novel? Hot takes preferred · u/RopeGloomy4303 · ↑204 · 2022-10-05
"The other remaining 27% is discussion on whether or not there will be a Blood Meridian movie."
"go to a cafe on a rainy day order a cappicino [it HAS to be regular milk sorry] and read blood meridian. this worked a little too well for me today i actually had to leave bc I felt like i was getting hunted."
for the girls: · u/techstarrr · ↑123 · 2022-06-18
"The frame of a man I can only describe as being near identical to Judge Holden steps down from the truck, large deposits of fat at the midsection and the back of the neck."
An interesting thing happened while I was out jogging · u/Jetter88 · ↑68 · 2025-05-03
"Elsewhere I've seen people say that don't like Blood Meridian because the characters do bad things, or the classic 'Holden Caulfield is a whiny loser!'"
Redditor book reviews/media literacy · u/Few_Capital2250 · ↑60 · 2023-07-21
"like it's not an impossible book but ppl don't even read anymore. and now I get all these joker versions of the Judge on my home page."
how did blood meridian become reddit · u/main_got_banned · ↑57 · 2024-07-21
"Contemporary fiction, not the first time you read Master and Margarita or Stoner or Blood Meridian or something."
What is the last new novel you read that was great · u/WolfofBallMeat · ↑55 · 2022-07-05
"Ever since Blood meridian was featured in that w*ndigoon video, 90% of the reddit threads about it are "the most evil darkest character in all of literature" or "who would win in an evil fight, judge holden or dark Vader?""
100 Years of Solitude its going to get redditfied with this Netflix show · crippledandinsecure · ↑45 · 2024-04-18
"It's gonna be John Hillcoat. Tbh don't think he's got the skills to properly pull it off, should've been Lynne Ramsay. Who's your pick for who portrays the judge? I reckon Tom Noonan could give it a go. Or fuck it, Jack Black"
Blood Meridian film adaptation has got a director · u/deleuze69 · ↑43 · 2023-04-29
"Fuck me what a line. Fuck Bateman, if there exists a character you shouldn't want to emulate but can't help but want to, its the judge."
"I used to think rs dudes were the cool art guy in a shitty band who was also 'online…' but it's clear that the dominating rs male caricature is a dude that gets zero pussy, into blood meridian, hates 'wammin,' resentful of mainstream everything, views are adjacent to blackpill/redpill ideology, gay "
"all the pretty horses is a nice departure from the rest of what I've read from McCarthy (blood meridian, the road). it's a romantic novel and isnt seeped in so much violence and despair."
what are you reading? · u/ChefGoldbloom · ↑40 · 2021-04-30
"there's nothing physically stopping me from giving a random kid a copy of Blood Meridian or Salo but this was on my mind today."
What's with the obsession with banned books? · u/SecretWasianMan · ↑33 · 2025-02-17
"An older more grizzled Mullen is what I've always imagined Glanton from Blood Meridian looking like"
John Joel Glanton · u/RedwoodsAndLakes · ↑33 · 2025-05-21
"I have fucking schmoop notes pulled up to check after ever chapter like a lazy high schooler. I am trying to read it like The Bible or other prose/poetry but without the line breaks and differentiations, it's hard."
Am I a moron or is Blood Meridian super hard to read? · [deleted] · ↑32 · 2021-11-10
"Ngl it's a bit of hard read. I don't mean that because it's slow paced or because of the subject matter, I mean because mccarthy's writing style is so different... on top of that, there's no quotation marks, so I have a hard time figuring what's dialogue and what isn't. Also there's no apostrophes f"
finally started reading blood meridian · u/KevinBaconNEggs · ↑32 · 2024-08-25
"Was excited to read this for the sub's bookclub. I'd read the first couple chapters several times before and found them really enjoyable, but everything after that is so murky to me and I only half know what's happening. Not to mention I'm stopping every other sentence to google words I've literally"
Might be too stupid for Blood Meridian · u/Minimalisimo · ↑29 · 2021-02-22
"In the late winter of eighteen seventy-eight he was on the plains north of Texas... I seen Studebaker wagons with six and eight ox teams headed out for the grounds not haulin a thing but lead... On this ground alone between the Arkansas River and the Concho there was eight million carcasses that's h"
Your Favorite Part of Blood Meridian · u/nwordexclaimer · ↑27 · 2022-02-13
"go to a cafe on a rainy day order a cappicino [it HAS to be regular milk sorry] and read blood meridian. this worked a little too well for me today i actually had to leave bc I felt like i was getting hunted."
for the girls: · u/techstarrr · ↑123 · 2022-06-18
"like it's not an impossible book but ppl don't even read anymore. and now I get all these joker versions of the Judge on my home page."
how did blood meridian become reddit · u/main_got_banned · ↑57 · 2024-07-21
"Contemporary fiction, not the first time you read Master and Margarita or Stoner or Blood Meridian or something."
What is the last new novel you read that was great · u/WolfofBallMeat · ↑55 · 2022-07-05
"Judge Holden routinely seems to target young girls and children and is implied to be a serial child murderer and rapist throughout Blood Meridian"
"It's gonna be John Hillcoat. Tbh don't think he's got the skills to properly pull it off, should've been Lynne Ramsay."
Blood Meridian film adaptation has got a director · u/deleuze69 · ↑43 · 2023-04-29
"but it's clear that the dominating rs male caricature is a dude that gets zero pussy, into blood meridian, hates 'wammin,'"
"all the pretty horses is a nice departure from the rest of what I've read from McCarthy (blood meridian, the road)."
what are you reading? · u/ChefGoldbloom · ↑40 · 2021-04-30
"there's nothing physically stopping me from giving a random kid a copy of Blood Meridian or Salo"
What's with the obsession with banned books? · u/SecretWasianMan · ↑33 · 2025-02-17
"what I've always imagined Glanton from Blood Meridian looking like"
John Joel Glanton · u/RedwoodsAndLakes · ↑33 · 2025-05-21
"I have fucking schmoop notes pulled up to check after ever chapter like a lazy high schooler. I am trying to read it like The Bible or other prose/poetry but without the line breaks and differentiations, it's hard."
Am I a moron or is Blood Meridian super hard to read? · u/[deleted] · ↑32 · 2021-11-10
"Ngl it's a bit of hard read. I don't mean that because it's slow paced or because of the subject matter, I mean because mccarthy's writing style is so different"
finally started reading blood meridian · u/KevinBaconNEggs · ↑32 · 2024-08-25
"Was excited to read this for the sub's bookclub. I'd read the first couple chapters several times before and found them really enjoyable, but everything after that is so murky to me and I only half know what's happening. Not to mention I'm stopping every other sentence to google words I've literally"
Might be too stupid for Blood Meridian · u/Minimalisimo · ↑29 · 2021-02-22
"i have already read the bible and blood meridian."
book recommendations for a man trying to fix his soul · u/[deleted] · ↑28 · 2022-11-08
"In the late winter of eighteen seventy-eight he was on the plains north of Texas. He crossed the Double Mountain Fork of the Brazos River on a morning when skim ice lay along the sandy shore and he rode through a dark dwarf forest of black and twisted mesquite trees."
Your Favorite Part of Blood Meridian · u/nwordexclaimer · ↑27 · 2022-02-13
"The crickets and the rust-beetles scuttled among the nettles of the sage thicket. "Vámonos, amigos," he whispered, and threw the busted leather flintcraw over the loose weave of the saddlecock. And they rode on in the friscalating dusklight."
My f*cking favorite blood meridian quote!!! · u/feeling_persecuted · ↑26 · 2022-07-26
"I read it in high school, and it introduced me to the power of good literature. Amazing, even impossible, that sterile words could conjure such visceral imagery."
I f*cking love Blood Meridian!!! · u/effortpost9 · ↑22 · 2022-07-26
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