Blood Meridian is a hard book to recommend to people. It is brilliant and unforgettable. It is violent and gruesome. Those things are not separable. It’s a post-Civil War tale of The Kid (never named) as he joins a marauding band of scalp hunters in the borderlands between Mexico and what will eventually become part of the United States. Led by John Glanton, this gang commits atrocities everywhere it goes while it hunts down assorted bands of Apaches and Comanches committing comparable … [Read more...] about Apathy in the Face of Evil
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