Ok fine, I'll give it a shot since everyone claims that it's the most brutal and bleakest book ever. But thing is, I don't understand if it's really a masterpiece or just edgelord porn. Also, English is not my first language and I was told that unless you have a proficient level combined with technical vocabulary I should just read a translated version.
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>the most brutal and bleakest book ever.
Not really. You get desensitized to deaths after chapter 3.
the violence isn't really even described in detail, there was no real gore as far as I remember
Then why is it considered so brutal?
A friend told me that this book is capable of spoiling your day.
Because the indians killed babies, and I think the cowboys killed baby indians. That's literally it, and there's a moron covered in shit kept in a cage and then on a leash. That's apparently too much for people. It's like when a dog dies in a movie.
I also remember a guy locked in a room and the building set on fire, genitals ripped off, a black guy cutting off a white guys head, multiple children killed, mass rape, and all that. It is a violent book
>a black guy cutting off a white guys head
that was comical
why would you spoil the moron to op like this 🙁
>Indians killed babies
Is the book related to the Comanche wars?
It's loosely about a scalp-hunting gang.
Too far South. The marauding takes place in Mexico primarily
>then why is it considered so brutal?
The worldview The Judge articulates to compliment it. Shrinking violets and ideologues will get hung up on their 'noble savages' vs 'colonizers' myths, given additional force by the Glanton Gang being based on an actual one. It's inconvenient and indiscriminate of tribal or religious confession the way violence is doled out. Implied acts against children doesn't help either.
and as an ESL I didn't find the vocabulary that difficult, but what I struggled with was how long some sentences were. because in english the word order is totally different compared to what it would be in my language and the longer a sentence is the worse it gets. here an example to give you an idea
On the plain behind him are the wanderers in search of bones and those who do not search and they move haltingly in the light like mechanisms whose movements are monitored with escapement and pallet so that they appear restrained by a prudence or reflectiveness which has no inner reality and they cross in their progress one by one that track of holes that runs to the rim of the visible ground and which seems less the pursuit of some continuance than the verification of a principle, a validation of sequence and causality as if each round and perfect hole owed its existence to the one before it there on that prairie upon which are the bones and the gatherers of bones and those who do not gather.
Engrish can be spoken quickly, doesn't mean it should outside of an Auction House. The key to longer sentences' pacing is to slow the frick down
What's your first language? Mine is pizza.
I don't know why but I can easily read any book about history, politics or science in English but when it comes to novels I suddenly struggle or fail to get immersed. Not sure if it's a psychological block or I'm just bad.
I'm esl as well. Didn't have to put a single of those words through a translator. But I want to add that that sentence is obviously not the fault if English itself but McCarthy's chosen style.
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Just read suttree instead you homosexual what we don't need is another BM dickriding niggw. And its not edgelord porn, it's a story about despondent cowboys and 1 djinn megalomaniac running around Mexico town doing whatevs, you should probably go on Wikipedia and look for lists of landmasses or something and save yourself time google searching. You can also expect to see pontificating on the animalistic nature of man and what have you, and naked morons and violence every other page. All things considered its a great book cause cormac is in fact a passable author, but he's a biting acolite of Faulkner, who did the style true justice, cormac is just entertaining, Faulkner is something else, I may end up taking that back once I finish suttree
Blood meridian is nothing like Cuckner, you insecure Cucknergay. He is also twice the writer.
>suttree
Juvenalia.