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My friend insisted our club read 'Blood Meridian' and I thought it was just going to be macho nonsense, but the debate about violence and fate was the most intense we've ever had.
He said, 'Just get past the first 50 pages and you'll see,' and after our 3-hour meeting in Chicago last month where half the group hated it and the other half called it a masterpiece, I finally understood why he was so adamant.
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uma_williams26d ago
My buddy Mark got the same push from his cousin about that book. He said the first chapter felt like a weird history textbook, but then he got to the part with the tree full of dead babies. They argued for a whole weekend trip about whether the kid had any choice in what happened to him. Mark said it wasn't about the violence itself, but about the empty space around it, which sounds exactly like what your club found.
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robin62826d agoMost Upvoted
Mark's cousin nailed it with that description. My sister made me read it last year and I got stuck on that same scene for days. The quiet around the horror messed me up way more than the gory details ever could.
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ruby_jones26d ago
That empty space is why I had to read the last half with all my lights on like a total coward.
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