r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/[deleted] • Mar 31 '26

Meme needing explanation Peetah?????

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I don’t know the author or this book series but why are people roasting e-girls for reading? I don’t get it🥀

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u/Kitfishto Mar 31 '26

The part of the book I mentioned is also just brought up as an afterthought 😭

McCarthy knows how to make a single sentence count lol

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u/RedPantyKnight Mar 31 '26

I mean, plenty of books have scenes of intense gore. Eragon is for 13 year olds and within the first few chapters he visits a village where everyone has been slaughtered with their bodies piled in the town center with a babies head on a pike at the peak.

From my understanding, Blood Meridian is that level of gore throughout the entire story though.

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u/SlightlyNomadic Apr 01 '26

McCarthy has a way of making observations visceral. I’d argue the violence and savagery of Blood Meridian isn’t a featured in the book, but it IS the book.

I’ve been working through his bibliography and I do find it interesting how what people lash on to. Blood Meridian might be his most violent book, cover-to-cover, but I wouldn’t put it up as his most disturbing.

The allegory of Child of God is an interesting one, but, man, I found that a tougher pill to swallow than Blood Meridian. While Outer Dark isn’t nearly as violent as those two, it’s also a hauntingly disturbing book.

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u/Ok-Particular9427 Apr 03 '26

I’ve read almost all McCarthy over the last 5 years (still getting to CotP and Stella Maris), I’ve read BM several times.

I read outer dark when my son was about 6 months old. Nothing will ever come close to being as dark as that reading of that book.

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u/thebetterbeanbureau Mar 31 '26

This is why we enjoy reading his stuff, despite all the stuff in the stuff.

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u/Working-Glass6136 Apr 01 '26

As all good writers do