Blood Meridian

This book by Cormac McCarthy has been genuinely recommended 2 times on Tim Ferriss. The people who vouched for it on air: Jocko Willink, Tim Ferriss. It comes up in conversations about consciousness, exercise & strength, longevity & aging, motivation & discipline, psychedelics. The earliest recommendation we indexed is from Jun 2024 and the most recent from Sep 2024. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

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.

• “It is one of the most beautifully written books I've ever read... called Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “It is one of the most beautifully written books I've ever read... the prose is so gorgeous”
  Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 202401:17:44

  Said during "Tim Ferriss’s Sabbatical, Kevin Rose Tries a Medium, Fitness Tools, and More, The Tim Ferriss Show". The episode features Kevin Rose: Kevin Rose with Tim Ferriss. Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose riff on podcast sabbaticals, modern dating, longevity science, mediums, and ketamine therapy on the Random Show.

• “Blood Meridian yeah ... it's written by cor M McCarthy oh fantastic writer so this is his best book”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “fantastic writer so this is his best book”
  Jocko Willink · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 202400:25:38

  Said during "Jocko Willink and Sebastian Junger, The Tim Ferriss Show". The episode features Jocko Willink and Sebastian Junger: Jocko Willink: retired US Navy SEAL officer, Silver and Bronze Star recipient, co-author of Extreme Ownership, host of the Jocko Podcast, and CEO of Echelon Front. Sebastian Junger: Peabody award-winning journalist, author of five New York Times bestsellers including The Perfect Storm and War, and documentarian behind Restrepo. Tim Ferriss revisits two favorite conversations: Jocko Willink on leadership and discipline, and Sebastian Junger on war, tribe, and PTSD.