A review by tmackell
Child of God by Cormac McCarthy

5.0

was gonna just give this 4 stars but fuck it it's so short and reads so fast. gets right to the point and accomplished the goal in the devastatingly earth scorching ending. could be a blissfully Buddhist sort of ending too if you think about it.... the sort of brutally dark and fucked up and fuck you book that Cormac had every right to put out at this early still struggling stage of his career. haven't seen the James Franco directed and starring adaptation of this one and idk if I'll be able to bring myself to, but I'll always love and cherish Cormac's dismissive response to James asking him why he wrote such a fucked up book: "I don't know James, probably some dumbass reason"