> Blood Meridian - Hard to describe. Blood Meridian: easy to describe truthfully, hard to do justice to in that description. Easy description: A Western. The

> Blood Meridian - Hard to describe. Blood Meridian: easy to describe truthfully, hard to do justice to in that description. Easy description: A Western. The western. One of the great masterpiece novels. Set in the Texas-Mexico border area, circa 1850, beautifully lyrical writing, but is also an appallingly violent work, certainly the single most bloody book that I have ever read. "A major theme is the warlike nature of man". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Meridian#Violence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Meridian#Violence