Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. The main character has no name, no parents and his life is full of violence and death. It’s all he knows, so much as he knows anything.
I feel like there are multiple levels of terrifying to this book.
I can’t get The Judge out of my head, he has a supernatural quality to him but in a horrible, intelligent way that makes him horrifying.
But then the other terrifying thing is just the depiction of the normal characters and what they go through and the actions they commit.
And then finally another level is the depiction of everything else they face. That scene where the boy first witnesses an attack by the Comanche is blood curdling and yet mesmerising within one sentence. For anybody looking for context, search for ‘Blood Meridian Legion of horribles quote’ for the whole sentence.
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. The main character has no name, no parents and his life is full of violence and death. It’s all he knows, so much as he knows anything.
It’s being adapted into a film now. I don’t know how they’re going to pull it off.
I don’t know if I’d want to see it, it’d be hard to watch on two counts:
They do it well, somehow, and I have to look away for a lot of the scenes.
It’s been done horribly and the book is irreparably marred by it.
I feel like it would need to be a television show instead and even then… I don’t think it’s possible to give it credit.
I feel like there are multiple levels of terrifying to this book.
I can’t get The Judge out of my head, he has a supernatural quality to him but in a horrible, intelligent way that makes him horrifying.
But then the other terrifying thing is just the depiction of the normal characters and what they go through and the actions they commit.
And then finally another level is the depiction of everything else they face. That scene where the boy first witnesses an attack by the Comanche is blood curdling and yet mesmerising within one sentence. For anybody looking for context, search for ‘Blood Meridian Legion of horribles quote’ for the whole sentence.
This sounds a little like Justine my De Sade. A bleak tale about ever escalating horrible events.