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Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Did not finish book. Stopped at 51%.
It was hard for me to finish this book. So i didnt! Not necessarily because of the content, just the opposite really. I found it boring and i got about halfway through. I did not like McCarthys writing style; there were a lot of run on sentences for descriptions of things.
I wanted to read this book before watching a breakdown a youtuber i like did of it. I went in expecting the brutality but was not forwarned about the casual use of the n word for both black people and native americas (hellooo pre civil war America!)
But overall i was not expecting a book lauded as being so gratituously violent to feel like pulling hairs and walking through quicksand to get through.
I wanted to read this book before watching a breakdown a youtuber i like did of it. I went in expecting the brutality but was not forwarned about the casual use of the n word for both black people and native americas (hellooo pre civil war America!)
But overall i was not expecting a book lauded as being so gratituously violent to feel like pulling hairs and walking through quicksand to get through.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism, Violence, Racial slurs, Sexual violence, Gun violence, Torture, and Murder
Dont read if you cant stand people getting scalped or the n word being used a LOT