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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This book is one of my current favorites and I'm adding Cormac McCarthy to my favorite authors list, just for this book. Beautiful language, but not for readers who have sensitive stomachs. I would describe it as macabre magical realism. I read more than one book at a time and right now I'm also reading a nonfiction book about urban planning and transportation and cities (okay, David Byrne's Bicycle diaries) which I enjoy, agree with but I found that I had to put it down to get a fix of Blood Meridian. I needed that awful beauty, needed to be wide-eyed by the descriptions of the landscape. You can SMELL these images. (  ) estellak | Nov 20, 2009 |  Incredible ( ) GomezGarciaGonzalez | Nov 10, 2009 | This is one of the best literary works in the past 25 years or so. It is not an easy book. McCarthy's prose takes some getting use to, but it is rewarding. ( ) wilsonknut | Nov 5, 2009 | Pasa a acompañar a WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS como uno de los libros mejor escritos y más descarnados y crueles que he leído. Fantástico, aúnque creo que es una historia de las de amar o odiar, sin término medio. El final queda abierto a interpretación, de modo hermoso a mi entender, pero es otro rasgo que entiendo que puede no convencer. (  ) membrillu | Oct 30, 2009 | Pasa a acompañar a WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS como uno de los libros mejor escritos y más descarnados y crueles que he leído. Fantástico, aúnque creo que es una historia de las de amar o odiar, sin término medio. El final queda abierto a interpretación, de modo hermoso a mi entender, pero es otro rasgo que entiendo que puede no convencer. ( ) membrillu | Oct 30, 2009 | 
 This latest book is his most important, for it puts in perspective the Faulknerian language and unprovoked violence running through the previous works, which were often viewed as exercises in style or studies of evil. ''Blood Meridian'' makes it clear that all along Mr. McCarthy has asked us to witness evil not in order to understand it but to affirm its inexplicable reality; his elaborate language invents a world hinged between the real and surreal, jolting us out of complacency.
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