I found this book too hard to read and it distracted me from the plot and some of the themes. The language was really high level at certain points such that if I wanted to really understand certain passages, I’d have needed 15 minutes per paragraph. That ends up being like 25 hours to read a medium length novel. I didn’t think that was worth it so skimmed by certain parts only comprehending a small part of it and probably missed some clever stuffI don’t know how this book is so popular. It’s very demanding and a lot of normies seem to like it, while also loving junk food lowers common denominator material. I think they’re pretending to seem sophisticated. If it wasn’t BLOOD MERIDIAN and just a random novel with no rep they would have given up after 20 minutes
give gravity's rainbow a try, much easier
Dear diary, OP was today years old when he/she/them discovered that they are less able to appreciate art than an average "normie".
I dislike that this book has become a meme. It's a decent work of literature and not deserving of meme status.
>>25260294Cringe>>25260307It’s a real shame because it’s a decent novel, unfortunately most of /lit/ either puts it on a pedestal or treats it like dogshit slop, two extremes, when it’s neither the greatest novel nor anything close to bad. But it’s a meme for a reason since it’s sort of the entry level “hard” book and also the Judge as a character.
>>25260332>it’s not the greatest novel
>>25260094You can copy and paste chapters or sections of the book into ChatGPT and ask for a summary or a better to digest version, it really helps with understanding novels like these.
>>25261125Okay but I don't want to be a giant fag.
>>25260094Different people have totally different standards for what counts as reading a book, or what counts as REALLY reading a book.Someone else could read a given page of Blood Meridian, understand it half as well as you did on the first pass, and feel like they "understood enough" and just kept moving while you're spending god knows how long looking up a bunch of words you don't know and trying to decipher some obtuse and challengingly creative uses of words you do know. That person did read Blood Meridian, they feel like they "got it", but you wouldn't neccessarily feel like you got it at the same level of comprehension. You can never tell what someone else's minimum comprehension threshold is, school doesn't teach you one, its entirely dependent on individual temperament and personality, and you can sometimes adjust your own depending on the circumstances.
>>25260294>blood meridian>art
>>25260094What a profoundly retarded approach. You don't deserve good books. Stick to Brandon Sanderson.
>>25260094>It’s very demanding and a lot of normies seem to like itNo, they like The Judge (or whatever they think he is), but they didn't actually read the book. Same thing happened with I have no mouth and I must scream and All Tomorrows, for some reason. Many such cases.>The language was really high level at certain points such that if I wanted to really understand certain passages, I’d have needed 15 minutes per paragraph.Borges said once that, if you don't find yourself enjoying a book, you should drop it immediately. Don't read it because it's famous, modern, or because it's old. It was just not written for you, and reading should be a form of happiness, not of suffering. You can always come back to it in another point of your life.>>25261125Kill yourself.
What we need is a movie adaptation that overshadows the book. Millions of normies will not know it was a book in the first place, and then we can display our superiority by saying "the book was better". Unless reddit shares that opinion of course.
>>25261419Good postVery true
>>25261125 I did read chapter summaries after I finished each chapter, sometimes missing some things and only catching them that way
>>25261668Perhaps but then again it's unadaptable especially by modern hollywood
>>25263167Read chapter summaries before reading the chapter. It kinda already gives you one.
>>25263168I recall some bog-standard western director started making an adaptation +-3 years ago. I assume he got stuck because it was never a good idea in the first place.
They saw patched argonauts from the states driving mules through the streets on their way south through the mountains to the coast. Goldseekers. Itinerant degenerates bleeding westward like some heliotropic plague. They nodded or spoke to the prisoners and dropped tobacco and coins in the street beside them.They saw blackeyed young girls with painted faces smoking little cigars, going arm in arm and eyeing them brazenly. They saw the governor himself erect and formal within his silkmullioned sulky clatter forth from the double doors of the palace courtyard and they saw one day a pack of viciouslooking humans mounted on unshod indian ponies riding half drunk through the streets, bearded, barbarous, clad in the skins of animals stitched up with thews and armed with weapons of every description, revolvers of enormous weight and bowieknives the size of claymores and short twobarreled rifles with bores you could stick your thumbs in and the trappings of their horses fashioned out of human skin and their bridles woven up from human hair and decorated with human teeth and the riders wearing scapulars or necklaces of dried and blackened human ears and the horses rawlooking and wild in the eye and their teeth bared like feral dogs and riding also in the company a number of halfnaked savages reeling in the saddle, dangerous, filthy, brutal, the whole like a visitation from some heathen land where they and others like them fed on human flesh.
>>25263168I don’t think that’s true. It’s very adaptable because you have the white bad guys and the innocent brown guys getting attacked who didn’t deserve it. Plus you have the Black Johnson and the white Johnson and oh my God, what a hero that black Johnson is for standing up for himself in killing the little racist white boy.Are you really trying to tell me that your average Hollywood jew wouldn’t cream itself over this film?
>>25260094>weekly Blood Meridian thread
>>25261144This desu
>>25263341Aren't they making one now? The description makes it sound like this>le evil INDIAN KILLERS the whole metaphysical thing that ties in with the time and setting is what makes it more than just a standard western, could they capture that? Shit could they even make it into a standard western and not a woke one?
>>25260094no yandere gf for you
>>25264318She is wildly hot>>25263752 >le bad white guys killing poor shitskins There is nothing else the movie could have been about, no way to get funding otherwise>metaphysicalI think this was pretty ethereal and hard to capture even in the book
>>25264513>I think this was pretty ethereal and hard to capture even in the bookYes, agreed. The best we could hope for is a non woke Western with more explicit religious/ good and evil themes. Just make the judge outright the devil and the kid some sad sack torn between the two. idk probably not happening.
>>25264775Thing is I didn’t really think the judge was this pure evil character. A lot of what he said was right. Sort of Colonel Kurtz or Tyler Durden type character. Cynical and willing to crack skulls, but actually realistic. No illusions. And in many ways, that ends up being more humanistic. He was badass when he made gunpowder from piss, and when he would dance. Of all the guys in the Glanton gang, he’s probably the most likeable, besides white Jackson, right? The kid is a deadbeat low IQ fag, Glanton is alright but a manlet, Toadvine is alright but again limited cognitive ability.Main thing that bothered me about the judge is how he’d destroy all the artefacts he found, that was pure psychopathic narcissism
