TiresomeOuting

Huh, what's it taste like? Tepache? Cider? I'm intrigued.

My weekend was booked up celebrating for my dad on Saturday and my wife's on Sunday, so no time for me, but I requested a lunch with my wife and kid on Friday so we went out and it was really great. Didn't really need more than that, but I was pretty dead by the end of the weekend.

Is there a way to pm on here?

It's definitely a work in progress and not purged of all copyrighted content so I don't want to widely distribute it but could give you a link. I'd definitely be interested on some feedback for it.

Cool, that sounds really useful! I might have to try it out.

What makes it more powerful than something like apt?

Blood Meridian is my favorite book I've ever read, but also one of the most challenging. But I've had to read it multiple times (three so far) to fully appreciate it, and I think I need even more to fully get it.

But I can't get it out of my head. The Judge especially just will not get out of my head.

This is me. Mostly I just want to know what I've read and what I thought of it, or if I did not finish. I don't need all the other things.

American Psycho made me so claustrophobic reading it I had to give up really quickly. Which means it was terribly effective, but not something I can make myself read.

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.

I'm not even sure why I think of Blood Meridian over The Road. Maybe now that I have child rereading the road would make it worse. But I feel that especially upon a few rereads Blood Meridian has some really dark things happening that aren't immediately apparent.

And I suppose part of my choice might be because I find The Judge to be both the most fascinating and horrifying character in anything I've read or seen.

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.

This is funny, I immediately thought of Blood Meridian when I read the post title, then came in and saw another Cormac McCarthy book!