/lit/ - Literature

Any recommendations on westerns that are dark, gritty, and have some action in them? Not really looking for something as brutal as Blood Meridian but I want something that isn’t your stereotypical “good cowboy in a white suit with a white hat on a white horse defeats without violence the bad cowboy in a black suit with a black hat on a black horse and then proceeds to ride off into the sunset with the maiden”. Something kind of like the films Unforgiven and the Outlaw Josey Wales and less like your typical John Wayne films.

/lit on blood meridian theories
So what do you think is the meaning the story which blood meridian has ?
For exemple what happened at the ending , what is the epilogue and what the fuck is judge holden , is he an idea ? , if so , of what ? .

do normies really find this shit disturbing and traumatising? lol

Just finished pic rel. My introduction to cormac, which of his books should I read next? I've seen suttree and the road appreciated on here. Also, who else thinks the judge raped and killed both the kid(now man) and the bear girl? His dancing and not dying contrasts his evil actions, drawing a more powerful ending than if the kid/man had done the rape or were left alive.

So now that the dust has settled, which was the better book: Stella Maris or The Passenger? For me, it's gotta be The Passengers, because it had a male protagonist, not a female one. What about you?

>>19661011
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>>19564934
Unironically Blood Meridian. It reignited my love in literature and got me to start writing.

Hey everyone. Hope all of you are having a good day. What's your favorite book that you read this year? For me, it was Blood Meridian. I've never read anything else that pulled me in, immersed me, and wowed me quiet like it. I am happy to keep reading more books to see if any could possibly top it. How about you fellas?

The man finished the book. He closed the pages tightly together then put one foot on the floor then the other then used his hands to push himself up out of the chair and then put one foot in front of the other until he had walked all the way to the book shelf and then put the book on the book shelf. The deer walked in. The man whirled around and fired once with his pistol and the brains of the deer went flying out the back of its head and painted the wall a color dark red like blood. The man sat down again like a man sitting down.

I didn't really like the book, said the dead deer.

I reckon I was pretty conflicted, replied the man grimly.

His writing style is pretty problematic.

I reckon his style is perty silly, he just strings a bunch of them declarative statements together, like 'the man did this then the man did that etc", but they don't paint no picture, they're done totally unevocative of anything. I reckon it don't take no skill to just state in excessive detail what someone is doing. It takes artistic skill to say it in a way that done bring it to life for the reader, and he don't done really do that. I reckon it's some sub-Hemingway shit he's doing.

It's not all bad though.

I reckon some some of the images t'were pretty powerful.

And the judge is a memorable character.

I reckon he's the only one though. All the rest of them there charac'ers ain't real memorable, like he done put no effort into 'em 'cause he spent all his time on the judge. And that there whole novel was all...whatdjacallit, structureless and stuff. And real repetitiv' too.

I read that he doesn't see why people like Proust and James because he thinks all novels should be about life and death things.

I reckon that's 'cause he's too obsessed with subject matter and not enough with style and art.

The dead deer nodded and walked out. The man slowly got up again by putting one foot then the other on the floor and then used his hands to push himself up out of the chair. He fixed himself a drink and resolved not to take anymore book recommendations from Harold Bloom.

What book are you currently reading? I'm in the midst of reading Blood Meridian. I got roughly 85 pages to go and I have to say this is easily the best book I've read this year, and will probably be one of my all time favorites. Love the descriptions of the desert and the gang, I find The Judge to be the most unnerving and evil character in anything I've experienced, and I just love how the book makes you feel like you've truly gone on a journey with these characters.

>Introduction by Harold Bloom
What other (fiction) books did Harold Bloom write introductions for? I'm unable to find a bibliography.

>>19037357
>"why is this 200 page literary fiction novel that /lit/ recommended not profound?"
i have some bad news anon.

Thoughts on Blood Meridian?

Do I need to be familiar with Wild Western novels to read this book, like chivalric romances and Don Quixote?

>The Judge on Existence
https://youtu.be/u3Jf09p4LaM

This is some straight truth from the universal nexus right into your brain stem.

I only read books if they have cool cover art
jk i don't read books

So, I plan to give Blood Meridian another go after I finish the book I'm currently reading and I have a specific question for those who have read the book. I got up to Chapter 13 before I put the book down. Was anyone else kind of confused about what The Judge was getting at during his various speeches at campfires? I love the rest of the book, the landscapes, the events, it's all very immersive for me. But I just feel that I'm rather confused by what The Judge is talking about sometimes. Maybe a second or a third read will help me?

The entire book

>>18159814
A man stands at the pearly gates awaiting passage as Saint Peter reads through his chapter in the book of life. Saint Peter looks up at him, "It says here you worked as a slaver for most of your life before resigning to life as a hermit. Did you grow weary of slaving?". "Sick of slaving?" the man laughed, "Hell no! I got sick of niggers!".

I have no idea why but some of the stuff in blood meridian cracks me up

This book is such edgelord cringe. Why do people consider this trite "literature"?

European literature
>But the most terrible agony may not be in the wounds themselves but in knowing for certain that within an hour, then within ten minutes, then within half a minute, now at this very instant – your soul will leave your body and you will no longer be a person, and that is certain; the worst thing is that it is certain
Mutt "literature"
>A woman brought them bowls of beans and charred tortillas on a plate of unfired clay. She looked harried and she smiled at them and she had smuggled them sweets under her shawl and there were pieces of meat in the bottom of the bowls that had come from her own table.
Literal gibberish