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According to the introduction to the book there have been quite a few interpretations made over the years about what 120 Days of Sodom is about but none are based on anything de Sade ever said about his work. The analyses all seem to be based on interpreting the text to fit contemporary thought of whatever era. I.e. most likely intellectual hot air (probably to excuse their enjoyment in reading it)

Blood Meridian is really dragging along despite being only like 350 pages.

I’m like four-fifths of the way through but it’s often quite a slog. I’m mostly just reading for this Judge Holden character, who is abjectly fucking terrifying and apparently based on a real individual who haunted the southern border collecting scalps and raining chaos and violence down on the world around him in the 1800s.

It's page 152 for me. (User Control Panel > Edit Options > Thread Display Options > Number of Posts to Show Per Page = 40 posts). More fun this way. :)

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I finished that motherfucker “Blood Meridian.”

It actually became quite gripping in the last third or so. Or maybe I got more used to the writing style.

Anyway, wow, what an apocalyptically depressing book.

The Judge Holden character is certainly the most compelling piece of it all, and he’s also the most well written character. Perhaps the ONLY character that’s “written” in any traditional sense. The other bodies occupying the book are mostly just that: bodies. Vessels. The Judge has a personality and it’s a frightful one.

I guess I didn’t hate it after all.