Meridiano di sangue

Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian is unquestionably the most violent novel I’ve ever read. It’s also one of the best. For those who would consider that a turn-off, I offer this caveat: For the overwhelming majority of fiction that involves a lot of violence, the violence itself is an act of masturbatio Leggi tutto

Blood Meridian has been on my to read list for well over a decade because, quite honestly, I sensed it was not my cup of tea. I’m not sure why exactly… maybe it’s that I’ve suffered my way through Faulkner and Hemingway already and had this gut feeling that they and McCarthy would sit at the same su Leggi tutto

⛧⛧⛧⛧⛧ "𝐈𝐟 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐨 𝐛𝐲 𝐧𝐨𝐰? 𝐖𝐨𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐬, 𝐦𝐚𝐧. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝? 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐲𝐞𝐭? 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐦 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐢𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐟𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 Leggi tutto

UPDATE: Cormac McCarthy left our world on June 13, 2023. This book plus The Border Trilogy, No Country for Old Men, and The Road are among the greatest books written by an America in the 20th and early 21st century. RIP, Cormac. We’ll miss your voice Breathless. Unique. Brutal. There are many words Leggi tutto

There are two ways to evaluate a book, as far as my unlearned mind can concoct at the moment. Stylish literary flourishes sometimes cloud our judgment when it comes to evaluating the plot itself, which is, after all, the reason why the book exists. This book is well written. If I'm a 11th grader, and Leggi tutto

This book has moments of fleeting brilliance, and the last 50 pages of the book are almost flawless. However, there are 280 pages before that you have to read, which consist of, in my opinion, nothing more than barren landscapes, borderline shock-value accounts of depravity, and self-indulgent simil Leggi tutto