Eponine Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 I have a Blood Meridian inspired tattoo. I own what I like instead of dick waving about liking/not liking stuff on the internet. Ha! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterbound Posted January 8, 2015 Author Share Posted January 8, 2015 I have a Blood Meridian inspired tattoo. I own what I like instead of dick waving about liking/not liking stuff on the internet. Ha! I have been thinking about getting a silhouette of the Kid walking into the Judge's embrace. I'm kidding… maybe I'll get a dancing bear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eponine Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 I have been thinking about getting a silhouette of the Kid walking into the Judge's embrace. I'm kidding… maybe I'll get a dancing bear. Tree of dead babies? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cz99 Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Not including other people's research papers, The Scarlet Letter was pretty awful. Lame plot, lame characters, and having 3 pages dedicated to explaining the appearance of a door is not on my list of fun things to read about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry of the Lawn Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Why not go full dick-waving-blood-meridian? A tattoo of the partisans pissing onto the powder at the volcano rim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unJon Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Yep. Who wouldve thought this thread could get this good? agreed. Until recently this thread was the worst thing I ever read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hello World Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 agreed. Until recently this thread was the worst thing I ever read. +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Oh God, I just remembered The Unrembered. No pun intended. Prose makes Stanek look good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Killer Snark Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Folks, I don't like popcorn. Can someone hand the big bag of nachos around? Iin order to stay on topic, one of the worst writers out there historically was probably Herodotus. One of the most famous 'historians' and travellers and one of the most gullible people ever. His stuff is mildly amusing at first (apparently, crocodiles have pig's ears and are tamed by Egyptians as pets and made to wear earrings) but its multiplicity of absurdities makes it wearying after a while. Awful writing style too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Please be trolling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jo498 Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 My Greek teacher quipped that Herodotus was somewhat like 5th century BC yellow press... But still he hardly deserves mention in "the worst" thread (which of course will always turn to "bashing classics" to some extent); I think he is entertaining and readable. And I loved the use of Herodotus in "The English patient". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EruditeFool Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 If we're on the subject of snacks... http://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/672348/Horse_Collar_2.0.jpg The Unremembered is worse than Stanek you say? Haha, good one. Let me check this out.... Good. GOD. :ack: :stillsick: From page 1: The water is cold and ruthless, lapping against my cheek.Slapping me awake. Filling my mouth with the taste of salty solitude. I cough violently and open my eyes, taking in the world around me. Seeing it for the first time. It’s not a world I recognize. I gaze upon miles and miles of dark blue ocean. Peppered with large floating objects. Metal. Like the one I’m lying on. And then there are the bodies. I count twenty in my vicinity. Two within reach. Although I don’t dare try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sologdin Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 I have a Blood Meridian inspired tattoo kickass, ep. I'd love to get a tattoo of "the howl of such outrage as to stitch a caesura in the pulsebeat of the world," but dunno how that would work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkynJay Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 I have a Blood Meridian inspired tattoo kickass, ep. I'd love to get a tattoo of "the howl of such outrage as to stitch a caesura in the pulsebeat of the world," but dunno how that would work.I'm pretty good at conveying the obscure into an art medium. Give me second. Yep. Add some red.. That should do it.http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/20500000/Fluttershy-my-little-pony-friendship-is-magic-20524085-570-402.jpgYour welcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sologdin Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 already done got that one. thanks though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 If we're on the subject of snacks... http://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/672348/Horse_Collar_2.0.jpg The Unremembered is worse than Stanek you say? Haha, good one. Let me check this out.... Good. GOD. :ack: :stillsick: From page 1: The water is cold and ruthless, lapping against my cheek. Slapping me awake. Filling my mouth with the taste of salty solitude. I cough violently and open my eyes, taking in the world around me. Seeing it for the first time. It’s not a world I recognize. I gaze upon miles and miles of dark blue ocean. Peppered with large floating objects. Metal. Like the one I’m lying on. And then there are the bodies. I count twenty in my vicinity. Two within reach. Although I don’t dare try. The truly scary part is that it was popular, had actual praise from real people, and even won a few awards(or was on a few best of lists at least). I feel like that guy at the cult meeting who forgot to drink the koolaid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EruditeFool Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 It's the punctuation opposite of Cormac McCarthy. Anyone want to explain to me what salty solitude is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spockydog Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Anyone want to explain to me what salty solitude is? Self-inflicted bukkake? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kuenjato Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 The Unremembered is truly heinous. I could only get through the prologue and part of the first chapter. McCarthy's writing can range from tedious to brilliant. Personally, I find his peak to be Suttree (the 'back to the mountains' part being among the most stunning prose sections I've ever read) and Blood Meridian. He was 'discovered' and became famous with rather minor books, IMO. His style is very deliberate and conscious, though, and when it works it can really, really work. Fans of short declarative sentences and boilerplate structured books may want to stay away. He lives less than an hour away from the town I'm in, but is reportedly extremely private--no book signings etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MinDonner Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 The "Herodotus" in The English Patient was actually Lyall Watson IIRC. I bought Herodotus off the back of that and was v disappointed at the lack of that passage about the winds; ended up having to spend vast amounts of cash on Watson's Heaven's Breath instead (stoopid out-of-print books in the days before Amazon Marketplace) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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