It's harsh, difficult, gorgeous, evoking Melville and Homer; it's discursive, melodious, unique, distressing, 15% too long, utterly unapologetic - I didn't really like Blood Meridian, but it's quite obviously a monumental masterpiece.
This historical treatise has a lot of notoriety but I found it unnecessarily dense, and ultimately flawed, in that its focus on states and state power ignores a related discussion of capitalist power, such that altho there is a useful perspective to glean here about how a drive for social legibility can transform a society, I wouldn't recommend the book overall.
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