How long does it take to read Blood Meridian?
Or the Evening Redness in the West
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy takes about 6 hours 37 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 37 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1985. 361 pages, about 99,275 words. Written for young adults.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 2 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 37 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 8 minutes |
The page count is the median across 37 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian brilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the "wild west." Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.
Subjects: Fiction, Glanton Gang, Outlaws, Teenage boys, Indians of North America, Massacres
