Most overrated book of all time.
i like the part where the retard eats poop lol
>>24849811>t.
>>24849860It's insane how dull these guys' channel and podcast are. The videos are like an hour and a half long and it seems like they somehow seem to talk about absolutely nothing for the entirety.
>>24849811The part of the legion of horribles was brutal, especially those savages raping the injured and the corpses.
Why?
Why didn't the kid kill the Judge when he had multiple opportunities? Was he retarded?
Go back to /v/ or /tv/ whichever coaxed you into reading it and stay there
Nobody really knows about this book once you step outside
>>24850322hate to bump this shitty thread but the kid never really had the opportunity. in the desert, the judge always knew where the kid was and had his rifle at the ready. the kid couldn't count on his shots landing or drawing on him quicker. he knew the judge was far more skilled (and lucky) and that he'd be dead if his first shot missedand he couldn't kill the judge before the ferry massacre since he was still a valuable member of the group
Why why why why why why why why why why
>>24849860>>24849878I remember they had an episode going through some "greatest books of all time" lists and it was just an hour of them saying that they've never read the most famous books ever written. They also got a question from a viewer asking what their favorite pre-19th century books were and they couldn't come up with an answer. My favorite hate-watch channel.
>>24851255>My favorite hate-watch channel.Rofl same. I watched a similar episode recently but of the 21st century and it was just them saying they've never read most of them but then still deciding whether or not the books should be on the list. Then if anyone posts any criticism at all the bearded cueball guy makes a snide insult
Third time I’ve seen this thread in the last week
>>24849811The only way some people get famous is hyperbole shitting on clearly talented things and people for rage clicks. Is it transgressive now to hate corncob because everyone on this board likes him?
>>24849811Their way led now through dwarf oak and ilex and over a stony ground where blacktrees stood footed in the seams on the slopes. They rode through sunlight and highgrass and in the late afternoon they came out upon an escarpment that seemed to rimthe known world. Below them in the paling light smol ered the plains of San Agustinstretching away to the northeast, the earth floating off in a long curve silent underlooms of smoke from the underground coal deposits burning there a thousand years.The horses picked their way along the rim with care and the riders cast varied glancesout upon that ancient and naked land.They rode onto the plain at dawn as the judge had said and that night they could seethe fire of the Mexicans reflected in the sky to the east beyond the curve of the earth.All the day following they rode and all that night, jerking and lurching like a deputationof spastics as they slept in their saddles. On the morning of the third day they couldsee the riders before them on the plain in silhouette against the sun and in the eveningthey could count their number struggling upon that desolate mineral waste. When thesun rose the walls of the city stood pale and thin in the rising light twenty miles to theeast.
>>24851440He's just not that good
>>24851453So much gay and cringey shit in here>glances upon that ancient and naked land>jerking and lurching like a deputation of spastics (barf)>rimmed the known worldIt rimmed the known world all right
>>24851472is your favorite author Hemmingway? Nothing really happens here, they go from one part of some land to another, it could be cut without impacting the story and yet long passages like this describing the land are integral to the story.
>>24851472A Sanderson fan, eh?
>>24851472Damn maybe the Bible is more to your speed then mr. Straight Puritan
>>24851523Sure but does it have to be so cringe and gay?
>>24851791>does it have to be so cringe and gay?Afraid of a little sincerity son? Free yourself from the zoomer irony poisoning that you have been subjected to.
>>24851808Fuck off dad
>>24851808got him. You read his soul like a gypsy
>>24851467No, it's that you're just retarded
Zoomers have limited vocabulary
>>24849811It was peak. So many moments hold so much power. Like the allegory of the sun and the moon in the sky are two sides of a looking glass>>24850322In the chase he was completely on the defensive. The kid has a code he adheres to and saw shooting the judge as shooting an unarmed man. That might even be why the judge tried to shoot him, the judge desires to corrupt his soul and destroy his code.>>24851453I like how he writes about the west. Almost like they've journeyed into another dimension or hell itself.The scene with the burning tree was something else
>>24849811Its another>great book you like is actually le badThread.Somewhat ironically every time haters make a thread about blood meridian people just end up discussing their favorite parts of it lol.>>24849834I like the part where the judge gets away clean with all his crimes and never recieves his comeuppance. Although it is pretty funny when glanton scolds him
>>24852488>I like how he writes about the west. Almost like they've journeyed into another dimension or hell itself.Supposedly he didn't even do it justice to how violent the old west really was. Up until blood meridian there was always that kind of romanticized version of the west with good guys and bad guys and the good guys always fight honorably and win the fight, etc. I mean probably for the average person who wasnt on the frontier it wasnt that bad, but outside the civilized areas things were pretty bad. Its one of the reasons american culture to this day is still very violent and obsessed with guns and the idea of independence, because in the old west those things were important. You needed to protect yourself from hostile others and starvation and so on and there wasnt much in the way of outside help you could rely on.
>>24852700huh?
>>24852700Right, the 2nd amendment doesn't go back 100 years before the expansion of the West or anything.McCarthyfags are so gullible
They led him through the narrow mud streets and he could hear music like a fanfare growing the louder. First children walked with him and then old folk and finally a throng of brown-skinned villagers all dressed in white cotton like attendants in an institution, the women in dark rebozos, some with their breasts exposed, their faces stained red with almagre, smoking small cigars. Their numbers swelled and the guards with their shouldered fusils frowned and shouted at the jostlers and they went on along the tall adobe wall of a church and into the plaza.There was a bazaar in progress. A traveling medicine show, a primitive circus. They passed stout willow cages clogged with vipers, with great limegreen serpents from some more southerly latitude or beaded lizards with their black mouths wet with venom. A reedy old leper held up handfuls of tapeworms from a jar for all to see and cried out his medicines against them and they were pressed about by other rude apothecaries and by vendors and mendicants until all came at last before a trestle whereon stood a glass carboy of clear mescal. In this container with hair afloat and eyes turned upward in a pale face sat a human head.They dragged him forward with shouts and gestures. Mire, mire, they cried. He stood before the jar and they urged his consideration of it and they tilted it around so that the head should face him. It was Captain White. Lately at war among the heathen. The kid looked into the drowned and sightless eyes of his old commander. He looked about at the villagers and at the soldiers, their eyes all upon him, and he spat and wiped his mouth. He aint no kin to me, he said.
>>24853042Captain white was a fucking retardHe reminds me of the kinda old fucking boomer retired cop that wants to feel like he's still at his old job. Smirking "we might just see some action today" before getting all the dipshits that followed him into the desert raped to death by Indians while he ran away to get beheaded by Mexican soldiers
>>24853224You weren't built for literature
>>24851375my main character vibes and watched the wendigon vid last week
>>24849811It was fine. If you cut out all of the violence, no one on here would have given it a second thought. The central theme of the novel is that all men by their base nature are prone to chaos rather than order (the uneducated savages wearing the Army coats backward) and that the concept of order is something external to them. McCarthy says as much with the Judge doing all of the collecting, drawing, and collecting (of things and experiences) during the book. The Judge is the one imposing his order, his rules, on the group and the World at large.Again, if you remove all the scalping, boiling tongues in mouths, docked ears, hangings, etc - it's a pretty pedestrian theme.
>>24854069OK
>>24854069>midwit filteredYou have no idea lol
>>24854069You're right about it being overrated, but you also got it totally wrong
When they left the cantina ten minutes later the streets were deserted. They had scalped the entire body of the dead, sliding about in a floor that had been packed clay and was now a wine-colored mud. There were twenty-eight Mexicans inside the tavern and eight more in the street including the five the expriest had shot. They mounted up. Grimley sat slumped sideways against the mud wall of the building. He did not look up. He was holding his pistol in his lap and looking off down the street and they turned and rode out along the north side of the plaza and disappeared....It was thirty minutes before anyone appeared in the street. They spoke in whispers. As they approached the cantina one of the men from inside appeared in the doorway like a bloody apparition. He had been scalped and the blood was all run down into his eyes and he was holding shut a huge hole in his chest where a pink froth breathed in and out. One of the citizens laid a hand on his shoulder.A donde vas? he said.A casa, said the man.
>>24854264>cites examples from the text to support the theme>U got it wrong! It's about God cause judge is white!Stay in the YA and manga sections, please.
>>24854404It's not about that either
