There are only a few books that I’ve experienced both ways. I’m wondering if this is an area for exploration.

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    5 months ago

    Read The Passenger, then Stella Maris.

    Blood Meridian is an amazing, terrifying, shocking, and eye-opening book. Ill never see another “Western” the same way again. It is among McCarthy’s most visceral.

    I cannot recommend to anyone that they read this book. Much in the same way I love films like Requiem For a Dream, Dancer in the Dark, or Melancholia, I can’t inflict them on others. Blood Meridian is this perspective in book form.

    If you’ve steeled yourself, by all means embark on Blood Meridian. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.