Does it really deserve to be considered one of the "Great American Novels"?
Does it really deserve to be considered one of the "Great American Novels"?
Jose Parker
Landon Martin
Yes
Caleb Reyes
Did he died in the end?
Parker Ramirez
Who? Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West.
Carson Brooks
Absolutely.
Isaiah Rogers
Yes
Samuel Williams
Mmmhmm.
William Miller
Far more so than whatever Franzen has crapped out which inexplicably gets called a great American novel.
John Perry
No. It's your obligatory edgy shit critics pretend to enjoy so no one will catch on they're total prudes.
Lucas Phillips
Totally, unless you come up with something better.
Hunter Peterson
YES!
Christopher King
the blood meridian was inside him all along
Daniel Harris
I found it a bit monotonal, no real light and shade, so after a while it became a little boring.
Also the quasi-philosophical sections seemed a bit heavy handed in the way they were inserted into the narrative, and the ideas themselves are kinda trite.
Samuel Thompson
Check it out, the next Harold Bloom!
Jace Barnes
Just my opinion, not trying to be the next anyone. I really think it would have benefitted from a female character or two to break up the same old same old
Brandon Bailey
Harold Bloom thinks this is a better novel than anything Pynchon or Dellio wrote, and calls it the spiritual continuation of Faulkner and Melville
Brayden Davis
Yes
Eli Murphy
I think Mason and Dixon is a better "muh Americah" novel desu.
Wyatt Lewis
its definitely more vibrant and varied in tone. Pynchon seems comparable to shakespeare in that regard. as much as i love blood meridian it is a tad one note (aka consistently bleak and nihlistic)
Jacob Thompson
He's not wrong.
Gabriel Myers
There is only one Great American Novel and its name is Moby-Dick
Colton Robinson
100%
Austin Martinez
based
my non-american vote goes to moby-dick, too.