So I just finished reading Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian for the first time ever.

[Tommy Carcetti]

And...phew...he was definitely not shy on the "blood" part.

Also not shy on usage of certain colloquialisms for authenticity's sake.

That said, it was a very engaging novel that absolutely kept my attention to the very end.

McCarthy's style of long, run on sentences and lack of quotation marks is a little bit odd, but man, can he ever paint a picture with words.

This was my second McCarthy novel. I've also read The Road.

Something about his grimness intrigues me. I probably have an unhealthy penchant for dark stuff.

[LudwigPastorius]

1. It's a masterpiece.

On par with Melville or Faulkner's work.

Glanton, and his gang, and Judge Holden were real people...real nasty people. When I found out after reading it, it made it more frightening in retrospect.

I mean, the fucking Judge! "He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die."

*shudder*

[Tommy Carcetti]

2. Yeah I didn't realize the Glanton Gang was real until I finished the novel.

Those days must have been absolutely brutal.

[Aristus]

3. I read "The Road" in one sitting, and then afterward, just sat there, stunned, staring very hard at nothing at all

for probably twenty minutes.

I was days getting over that...