Blood Meridian By Cormac McCarthy
Blood Meridian By Cormac McCarthy Blood Meridian loosely follows a fourteen year old nicknamed The Kid as he joins a gang on the hunt for Indian scalps in the 1850s on the Texas-Mexico border. This is a very graphic and depraved look at the morals this group of men lacked on their bloodthirsty quest to make money from the heads of those they deemed to be less than human. In so doing, their own lack of humanity is on full display with McCarthy's mastery of prose. It is a sick and twisted narrative elevated through amazing writing. The setting is bleak and nightmarish with despicable characters, some based on real people, who engage in the grossest displays of evil with no remorse. One of the most vivid and memorable of these characters is a man called the Judge, who seems like a devil creature who is the decider (the judge) of what is allowed to exist and what is not, as he spends his time between massacres drawing and cataloguing the things he sees. He is the ultimate dec...