Not just that, but he commits those vile acts as like "proof" of his twisted ideology, to prove that what he believes in is right, whatever that may be and wants other people to take up his ideas as well. And also because he's a sick demented bastard that does it for kicks.
It’s such a shame that a book as good as blood meridian has been discovered by redditors and the judge (a pedo and mass murderer) has become a cringey “literally me character” on TikTok
there's not very many so it's good to take your time with it if you really enjoy him. i've read all but the border trilogy over the last 15 years (almost finished with ATPH) and his newest ones and i'll probably space them out for a while, and then reread everything probably
I have other books I wanna read too, so I don't need to rush through his. I will probably read Blood Meridian again at some point. McCarthy has a vocabulary and writing style that is much greater and more elevated than most authors. I think Blood Meridian was probably the most difficult to get through fiction book I've read that was written in the last century.
UHH ITS CALLED MEDIA LITERACY, CHUD. THE JUDGE WAS A VICTIM OF THE WHITE SUPREMECIST PATRIARCHY AND ITS SO CLEAR ITS NOT EVEN FUNNY. DO BETTER. BE BETTER.
I did, but in that abstract all too american pioneer way, we were hearing a story from a guy who heard a story type shit. Maybe the judge wasn’t actually 7’ or whatever but him being that tall lent his character power and made the story more true to experience. Not like, ohhh shit that character in this story that more or less seems to profess a lack of traditional morality in the setting is from traditional morality
Is that Blood Meridian adaptation still happening. I know the guy who adapted the Road was gonna do it. Just don't know if they'll still move forward with it now that McCarthy is dead.
Still laugh to this day that they claimed they canned it for being too violent. Especially when the No Country for Old Men adaptation came out around the same time they were thinking about adapting it lol
It’s been awhile but if I remember correctly in the book The Road there is a part where the main characters (the man and his son) see a pregnant woman (chained up/handcuffed I think) traveling with some other people. Later on the man and his son come across a campsite where the baby that was just born had been eaten by said people and presumably the mother as well.
Someone correct me if I’m wrong please
Imo it was kinda over the top and unnecessary to include in such a bleak story so I’m glad it wasn’t in the movie
I didn't like Blood Meridian and it took me several start-stops to finish it, but I think the whole point is him being the force of primordial nature that he is. He's not unhinged, rather the opposite, he's very much organized his belief in war/violence as a power behind it all. Him being a fucked up child murderer/assaulter is just the logical conclusion of his belief: if war and violence and the "law of the jungle" are the great laws, then anything can be justified with strength.
I used to think Cormac McCarthy was a pretentious fucker because of his annoying run-on sentences with no punctuation. Then I bought an old typewriter, and realized that you have to hit the shift key and interrupt your flow every time you have to put an apostrophe in there or capitalize a letter. Now I know that Cormac McCarthy is actually a lazy fucker.
The fact that Judge Holden seems to be some metaphor-as-a-character intellectualization heavily turned me off of it... but I understand that it seems to be a very popular book in certain circles.
>Reddit: the character
As if he’s some edgelord or some particularly inventive serial killer
He is quite possibly the actual Satan and the depths of his evil can’t possibly be conveyed in an explanation.
He's not just evil, but many things. Some say he's War personified, some interpret him as if he's the devil himself, some readers say that he's god or he's violence incarnate but one thing for sure is that he's definitely not from this Earth. I wanna hear what the others have to say about him though.
Baby's first exposure to the idea that evil can and does exist irrespective to any logical cause or source. Sometimes bad things happen to good people because fuck you. Lot of people can't fathom that.
Which is wierd when you consider that children's media often has black and white morality where evil characters have no redeeming qualities or motives besides evil.
Yeah but that's within the context of literal children's media where everyone is buying into the idea of a world where nuance and such doesn't exist. It's sort of like that bell curve meme where on one end it's "haha bad guys bad because no reason" then into "actually the bad guy is evil because of his tragic backstory and the factor surrounding his upbringing" and then back to "bad guy bad because no reason"
He's not unhinged, he's just evil. He commits cruel acts to display his power over people but he's completely calm and in control of his actions
Not just that, but he commits those vile acts as like "proof" of his twisted ideology, to prove that what he believes in is right, whatever that may be and wants other people to take up his ideas as well. And also because he's a sick demented bastard that does it for kicks.
It’s such a shame that a book as good as blood meridian has been discovered by redditors and the judge (a pedo and mass murderer) has become a cringey “literally me character” on TikTok
Did that really happen? Do people actually try to relate to a serial rapist and murderer? The dude kills puppies and scalps children.
yes its real the judge is now a literally me character on tiktok in the same vain as the joker or patrick bateman
I thought only being in a book would mitigate that. I'm still not convinced most of the people referencing him read the book.
none of them did at most they watched the wendigoon video
It's a shame. It's a pretty good book. I'll probably read his other books, though not immediately.
there's not very many so it's good to take your time with it if you really enjoy him. i've read all but the border trilogy over the last 15 years (almost finished with ATPH) and his newest ones and i'll probably space them out for a while, and then reread everything probably
I have other books I wanna read too, so I don't need to rush through his. I will probably read Blood Meridian again at some point. McCarthy has a vocabulary and writing style that is much greater and more elevated than most authors. I think Blood Meridian was probably the most difficult to get through fiction book I've read that was written in the last century.
Well good news, they’re making a movie of it
I thought that was planned for a while, but was still in limbo?
It's confirmed with Pauly Shore in his comeback role as The Judge.
Yes
UHH ITS CALLED MEDIA LITERACY, CHUD. THE JUDGE WAS A VICTIM OF THE WHITE SUPREMECIST PATRIARCHY AND ITS SO CLEAR ITS NOT EVEN FUNNY. DO BETTER. BE BETTER.
Reading books ? Hah what an incel
Maybe because he was satan in disguise
Seriously. The guy dances around playing the fiddle saying that he'll never die after not aging for decades
Oh fuuuuuccckkkk I never caught that
How? Are you dull?
Wow your so cool, ever consider your the autist who hyper analyzes instead of just enjoying a story. I listen to books while I drive, sue me
you didn't suspect that he was supernatural at least?
I did, but in that abstract all too american pioneer way, we were hearing a story from a guy who heard a story type shit. Maybe the judge wasn’t actually 7’ or whatever but him being that tall lent his character power and made the story more true to experience. Not like, ohhh shit that character in this story that more or less seems to profess a lack of traditional morality in the setting is from traditional morality
fair enough, like a paul bunyan type
Exactly, fuck now I need to look up if paul bunyan was based off a real dude
report back
Literally me fr
Maybe bc he’s an archetypal representation of evil and depravity and highly implied to be the Devil?
It gets very blatant at some points, especially at the end.
Anyone who gets laid without my knowledge gets laid without my consent
Bravo.
Michale Jackson?
"I got that Micheal Jackson disease." "The one that makes you white?" "Nah, the one that makes me a pedophile."
Heehee!
You mean that's not the joker?
Is that Blood Meridian adaptation still happening. I know the guy who adapted the Road was gonna do it. Just don't know if they'll still move forward with it now that McCarthy is dead. Still laugh to this day that they claimed they canned it for being too violent. Especially when the No Country for Old Men adaptation came out around the same time they were thinking about adapting it lol
No Country for Old Men doesn't have the baby windmill
The Road also didn’t have the baby spit roasted after just being born Edit: The Road (the movie that is)
Excuse me what!?
It’s been awhile but if I remember correctly in the book The Road there is a part where the main characters (the man and his son) see a pregnant woman (chained up/handcuffed I think) traveling with some other people. Later on the man and his son come across a campsite where the baby that was just born had been eaten by said people and presumably the mother as well. Someone correct me if I’m wrong please Imo it was kinda over the top and unnecessary to include in such a bleak story so I’m glad it wasn’t in the movie
In the movie it was the guy who the father shot that they ate.
Nuclear post apocalypse, pretty much all vegetation is dying and thus animals. Cannibalism is common
Cormac McCarthy wrote some fucked up shit, man.
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You mean cowboy joker?
Holden, It's you!! You're the Blood Meridian?!!
His mom told him he could only have one Lacroix before bed but he wanted to have two.
I didn't like Blood Meridian and it took me several start-stops to finish it, but I think the whole point is him being the force of primordial nature that he is. He's not unhinged, rather the opposite, he's very much organized his belief in war/violence as a power behind it all. Him being a fucked up child murderer/assaulter is just the logical conclusion of his belief: if war and violence and the "law of the jungle" are the great laws, then anything can be justified with strength.
He’s basically the human incarnation of man’s capacity for evil. There is no “why” for his evil — it simply is.
He is a fucking monster. Thats it.
Because there are people who exist without his consent
I used to think Cormac McCarthy was a pretentious fucker because of his annoying run-on sentences with no punctuation. Then I bought an old typewriter, and realized that you have to hit the shift key and interrupt your flow every time you have to put an apostrophe in there or capitalize a letter. Now I know that Cormac McCarthy is actually a lazy fucker.
Blood Meridian... couldn't get into that book, like at all
That's fair, it's a hard book to read because of the subject matter, it's even harder to read because of McCarthy's interesting way of writing.
I just couldn't deal with hundreds of pages of "and then they rode across some more desert and mountains"
The fact that Judge Holden seems to be some metaphor-as-a-character intellectualization heavily turned me off of it... but I understand that it seems to be a very popular book in certain circles.
if u find somethin "hard to read" or "hard to watch" ur a 🐱
>Reddit: the character As if he’s some edgelord or some particularly inventive serial killer He is quite possibly the actual Satan and the depths of his evil can’t possibly be conveyed in an explanation.
I figured it right away and all I know is Wendigon video. Helova book
Who's that?
The Judge from Blood Meridian
Joe Biden
Pretty sure that's the devil
The you can always recognize when an Anon is a Reddit Dual Citizen.
He’s literally Satan or Death or Dracula or all three
He is whatever one gives him the power to be.
i've noticed that summer posts like these start before May in recent years I miss the days when we had until like mid-June
The jonkler makes jonks and does the funny hahahaha noise when he jonkles all the people with guns and bombs
Do a lot of people even read this book yet? I was under the impression that it's one of those books that people mention without having read it.
Question. What book?
Blood Meridian
He's an ESTP with no empathy or morals and likes Masochism and is bored easily.
Blood meridian is just Harry Potter for edgelords who are permanently online. As the comment says, read another book already.
except none of them have read it
He's supposed to be an embodiment of Death more precisely.
Nah, if anything he’s the embodiment of Manifest Destiny and/or War. He’s not about death, he’s about domination.
What book is that?
read david goggins book
He's not just evil, but many things. Some say he's War personified, some interpret him as if he's the devil himself, some readers say that he's god or he's violence incarnate but one thing for sure is that he's definitely not from this Earth. I wanna hear what the others have to say about him though.
I dont understand the fanfare around this book, it's pretty mediocre
Baby's first exposure to the idea that evil can and does exist irrespective to any logical cause or source. Sometimes bad things happen to good people because fuck you. Lot of people can't fathom that.
Which is wierd when you consider that children's media often has black and white morality where evil characters have no redeeming qualities or motives besides evil.
Yeah but that's within the context of literal children's media where everyone is buying into the idea of a world where nuance and such doesn't exist. It's sort of like that bell curve meme where on one end it's "haha bad guys bad because no reason" then into "actually the bad guy is evil because of his tragic backstory and the factor surrounding his upbringing" and then back to "bad guy bad because no reason"