Crossing the Blood Meridian: Cormac McCarthy and American History
First things first, I think it’s important to recognize that this book may not be for everyone.<p>I was recommended and read Blood Meridian a while ago without having any prior knowledge of it, and I now rank it as one of the best book I’ve read that I’ll almost never recommend to anyone blindly.<p>If you decide to read it, and I actually hope you do, please be aware that it is —- as the article describes —- heartlessly and brutally violent.<p>That being said, I think the author justifies their use of it, as does the linked article. In my memory it stands more as a work of poetry than a novel, in as much as it provoked emotions more than tell a specific “story”.