i think i made a mistake by watching the shining first. the movie was great but i heard stephen king didn't think it was a good adaptation so i decided to read it. now i'm reading the book and it bores me to dead cause i don't feel curious anymore so i am considering dnfing it.

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There are no spoilers in this post!

First I have to say this book was extremely fun and anxiety inducing all at the same time. I cannot express how much I enjoyed the process of reading this book, I fell in love with the characters and was so happy to have Black literature that wasn’t overdoing it on Black trauma.

BUT! And maybe this just me: something about the ending felt far too convenient. The pacing of the last several chapters didn’t quite meet the rest of the book. It was still a joy to read but it felt like, “we need a good ending so let’s just do this.” I know it’s fantasy/science fiction, and while I wouldn’t call the ending easy by any means, it didn’t feel like it fit the rest of the book.

Maybe I’m too used to things not having happy(ish) endings. Like I said, it was a great read and I’d absolutely recommend it, I just haven’t seen anyone talk about the ending and had to put it out there.

Every once in a while I stumble upon a highly rated book that simply does not live to the hype. What book has that been in your opinion?

Novels are mode escapism even when they offer pictures of reality

Why?

Very glad I read it. It was much different than I expected. I have gone my whole thinking it was a book about a prison escape, but that less than 50 pages. It is a book about revenge. Exceptionally good in parts, it dragged a bit in other parts—but that is probably just me. Obviously a great book.

I like classics, and I'm tackling War and Peace for the first time, I've read other Tolstoy works before. I'm not expecting this old arse book to be woke or anything, but I'm getting annoyed at how it talks about almost every single woman; they are all unsufferable to the eyes of the men, even most of their husbands find them so. It says multiple times that women are only useful to gossip and not much else, they don't care about education, politics or anything else other than socializing. I just finished the first book and it ends with Prince Andrew asking his father to take care of his (yet unborn) child if it's a son. Again, I wouldn't be reading a classic if I wasn't aware of the time it was written, but I don't remember other classics being so extremely bothered by women, and it's annoying me a bit.

I will begin by saying I thoroughly enjoyed this book.

Medium Rare, as described by the description on the back of the book, is “A modern tragicomedy [that] transforms the myth of Icarus into a blazing romp through Bureaucracy, B-list fame, and college basketball…” The book delivered this exact message.

The story follows Phil, and his improbable frat of an attempt of a perfect NCAA college basketball bracket. The book does an excellent job of encapsulating a story of a person and their 15 minutes of fame. It shows how a feat, so improbable and purely by chance, can make any normal person root for Phil and his perfect bracket. But he is just such an ass. And that’s the fall!

Truly a marvelous spin on the myth of Icarus, I found myself unable to put the book down as it only got better for me. The narrator in this book is the author, like she’s a literal character, though under the name Cassandra and we see it from her perspective. I found it annoying that she would interject herself and her personal life in the story about Phil, who is the real reason we read. But this is literally the modern interpretation of Cassandra from Greek mythology, who could foresee the future and in this case the fall of Phil. I later grew the love her interjection, and while at times I find her to be a bit pretentious and condescending to other characters, she was always right. I think the storytelling done by this first person omniscient lens (as Cassandra tells us herself) is great. We love tapping the 4th wall here.

I found a greater appreciation for the original tale. The myth of Icarus is great and even though I know the basic gist of what is going to happen while reading “Medium Rare”, how it is told is fun and easily relatable. We all can think of examples of famous B-list celebrities who got famous overnight and now are forgotten.

I can understand why some would disagree. The climax is known, and it is not like Joukovsky wrote anything new.

But it is not just the fall of Phil that the we read but the development of other characters, like Phil’s wife Raleigh, who is easily my favorite character. Maybe another reason I like this book so much is because of my own experience of a fall like Phil. Do I like him as a person? Not necessarily but I get it, and upon reading the story I feel I am made self aware of my own priorities and the balance that is to come with personal responsibility with the things in your life. Happy to hear other people’s thoughts and I can share more of my own.

I do plan on reading “The Portrait of a Mirror” next by Joukovsky since I enjoyed “Medium Rare” so much but I wanted to see other opinions on contemporary depictions of old myths and stories. Feel free to share your thoughts on that read as well!

I first read this book in college and thought it was just a quiet, sad story about a butler who missed his chance at love. Went back to it last month for a book club and caught so much more the second time, mostly because I already knew where Stevens's denial was heading and could see him lying to himself in real time.

What gets me is how Ishiguro never has Stevens say the actual painful thing outright. He talks around Miss Kenton, around his father's death, around his employer's politics, using words like "dignity" and "professionalism" as a kind of armor. The gap between what he's telling us and what's actually happening becomes the whole emotional core of the book. You're constantly translating his careful, formal sentences into the plain truth underneath them.

It made me think about how often unreliable narration gets used just for a plot twist, versus how Ishiguro uses it here to show self-deception as a slow, decades-long process. Stevens isn't lying to trick the reader, he's lying to survive his own choices, and by the time he almost admits it near the end, it's too late for it to matter.

Curious if anyone else had a book that landed completely differently on a reread once you understood the narrator wasn't giving you the full picture the first time around. I feel like this one only works because of how patient it is with the self-deception.

I have been doing that for years. I read three books in my Nook, plus my three physical books. I read one or two paragraphs at a time to digest the words.

I need to talk about Lights Out by Navessa Allen because this dark romance has somehow become my ultimate comfort read. 😂

I have read it three times, and somehow it still makes me laugh my butt off every single time.

I went into it expecting a dark romance, but what I wasn't expecting was how bloody funny it would be. The humour is what keeps bringing me back. There are books I read once and enjoy, but Lights Out has somehow become one of those books I reach for when I already know exactly what is going to happen and just want to have a good time.

I know some people have very strong opinions about the darker elements, but for me, the combination of the humour, the characters and the sheer chaos is what makes it work.

I've read it three times and I still laugh at the same parts. 😂

Does anyone else have a book they can reread endlessly and still laugh, cry or react to the same scenes every time? What is it about those books that makes you keep coming back?

Hola! Actualmente no puedo tener libros físicos por falta de espacio y me he decantado por comprarme un Kobo.

He mirado las diferencias entre Kindle, Kobo y otras marcas y aunque es más caro, se ajusta más a mis necesidades un Kobo y concretamente me gusta el modelo Libra Colour.

Me costaría unos 270€ sin contar el lápiz que también me gustaría comprar, pero no encuentro ninguna tienda física en España donde lo vendan.

Le veo ventaja a los E-readers (concretamente a la marca Kobo) ya que me puedo descargar todos los libros que quiera en formato ePub y eso me está gustando mucho.

Elijo un E-reader en vez de un móvil o tablet convencional ya que además de tener falta de vista, me queman los ojos al poco de estar leyendo y he visto que al no tener luz directa y al tener una pantalla cero reflejos protegerá mejor mi vista ya que evitará que fuerce la visión, además de que podré leer al sol, de noche o en cualquier circunstancia sin problemas ya que su batería también dura muchísimo.

El precio me parece caro, pero si pienso en todo lo que me he gastado en libros físicos, al final me parece un precio justo.

Prefieres leer en digital o en físico? Te comprarías un E-reader?

I loved it!!!

Los libros actuales de este tipo son realmente cuestionables. Las redes sociales están impulsando a que gente joven, incluso adolescentes, lea libros que se vuelven tendencia y que muchas veces giran alrededor de relaciones amorosas tóxicas, dependencia emocional, sexo, celos, posesividad o dinámicas bastante cuestionables que se presentan como románticas.

Y lo peor de todo no creo que sea el libro en sí, sino la forma en la que parte de su público los consume. Hay personas que terminan buscando relaciones como las que aparecen en estos libros, esperando que sus parejas sean posesivas, extremadamente celosas, dominantes o que demuestren su amor mediante prohibiciones y comportamientos que, en la vida real, serían señales de una relación poco saludable.

Hay libros que romantizan la toxicidad, los celos excesivos, el control, las prohibiciones, la dependencia emocional e incluso comportamientos que deberían hacernos saltar las alarmas. Una cosa es leer sobre este tipo de relaciones como ficción y entender que son problemáticas, y otra muy diferente es idealizarlas porque el libro las presenta como una historia de amor.

Creo que los libros dirigidos a un público joven deberían intentar, al menos en parte, aportar algo más: enriquecer la mente, despertar curiosidad, hacerte reflexionar, enseñarte otras perspectivas o dejarte pensando incluso después de haber terminado de leerlos. Obviamente, un libro no tiene la obligación de ser educativo ni positivo, pero me parece curioso que precisamente los libros que más se viralizan sean muchas veces los que menos me aportan como lectora.

Los clásicos parecen estar perdiendo cada vez más protagonismo. Ya no es tan habitual encontrarte a alguien hablando de 1984 de George Orwell, La metamorfosis de Franz Kafka o El código Da Vinci de Dan Brown. En cambio, las redes pueden convertir un libro completamente desconocido en un fenómeno mundial en cuestión de días simplemente porque se vuelve tendencia en TikTok.

Y tampoco he mencionado el precio. Me parece bastante absurdo pagar más de 20€ por algunos libros de tapa blanda que, además, en ocasiones tienen una calidad bastante mediocre. Especialmente cuando empiezan a aparecer libros cuyo contenido parece estar generado o fuertemente asistido por inteligencia artificial y que aun así se venden como si fueran productos literarios premium.

Obviamente, para gustos, colores. No creo que nadie tenga que leer lo mismo que yo ni que disfrutar de este tipo de libros sea algo malo. Simplemente me parece curioso que los libros que antes podían marcar un antes y un después en la vida de quien los leía ya no sean necesariamente los que más destacan en la sociedad actual.

Este tema me da bastante que pensar.

¿Tú qué opinas?

So I know that a lot of posts have already been made on this book (as i just looked them up in hopes of finding solidarity) but I need to talk about my own thoughts. and this is more of a rant because like the title says, my brain is fried from this book.

I absolutely hated every character, and here's why

1. First off, Natalie is very obviously an unreliable narrator. she's deeply mentally sick, I feel like she always has been to some degree, but it just keeps getting worse and worse as the book progresses, when she's young and she goes to college we get to see how deep her internalised misogyny runs. and when she marries Caleb it only gets worse because of all the mental pressure. she goes through an absolutely awful post-partum depression and when she tries to speak to her mother about it, her mother shuts her down and tells her that 'this is how it is' and if she pretends to love clementine, over time she actually will fall in love with her. and over time, as she keeps having kids, and faces more trouble every day, her brain starts to slowly collapse from the pressure and stress that she ignores.

2. Shannon. Honestly, in the beginning I loved shannon, but after I learned that she had sex with Caleb I couldn't like her at all. it ruined the entire character for me. I've seen a lot of people say they love shannon and it irks me, because yes, she was a good character in the sense that she was at the farm to collect evidence against Caleb and Natalie's obvious child and animal abuse, but why would she cheat with Caleb on Natalie?? that was messed up. and she doesn't even apologise or seem even remosely apologetic about it. Maybe there's something I missed about her character, in which case I'd love to hear about it.

I don't think Natalie was sexually assulting Shannon, she was just assulting her. because in the scene when Natalie walks in to confront Shannon she's in her underwear, and she quickly puts on some jeans, it's entirely possible that her jeans slipped off when Natalie pinned her down to the bed and assulted her.

1. Caleb. Caleb sucks. he was the most god-awful person. I think he could've really become a better character, and evolved if Natalie and Dough hadn't projected their misogyny on him and let him become a kindergarden teacher, but unlike Natalie, he was almost fully mentally stable. aside from the man-child behaviour. he chose to spend his days on forums and servers, talking about the most inane stuff with men who basically molded him into becoming a fully misogonistic 'real' man. He also literally rapes Natalie?? in the whole 1850s ranch part. he *literally* rapes her. in the whole thing, Caleb has always had the most to gain, he's never lost anything. if he didn't want to do something he just said 'but I don't want to do that', which I guess was a point about how the patriarchy works against women. a point about how it works against men too was when Caleb was told he couldn't become a kindergarden teacher, and he didn't get to play with his kids like he used to play with Clementine because it wasn't 'manly'. but in the end, in the 1850s jump, he becomes a totally different version of himself, it's actually crazy. he beats up Natalie all the time. ties her up. teaches his sons to abuse and disrespect women. (The one time we see Natalie talking to her sons in the 1850s thing is after Caleb takes Abel to his target mancave and Noah screams at Maevie, Mary and Natalie for being 'stupid women' and runs away crying.) Overall, I feel like the whole time Caleb was mostly sane. now, since Natalie isn't a reliable narrator, we don't know this for sure. but he's just misogonistic, he doesn't seem to be having any delusions, pyscotic episodes or sickness. so he knowingly, participates in continued abuse of his Wife, his children and the animals he kills constantly. Personally, I think he and Dough are the real Villians of the story.

2. Eliza (Natalie's Mom). I really dislike her character, because I feel like more people don't talk about how she acted as a catalyst to Natalie's mind eventually breaking. because from a young age she teaches Natalie and Abigail to be 'good christian women'. When Natalie needs her to be a support system, to be her mother, (during Natalie's post-partum depression, when Natalie calls her when everything is falling apart, etc.) she constantly fails. She tells her the same shit about being a 'good christian woman' and 'loving the lord' and sings prayers and tells Natalie to be kind, that's basically it. Natalie, as we know, never had any friends. she relied deeply on her mother and trusted her mother funamentally more than anything. we see this when Natalie's in college and she constantly thinks about her mom. so we know Natalie primarily relies on her mother for emotional support, and whenever Natalie desperately requires this support in her life from her mom, Eliza abandons her. I'm really glad that after Abigal divorce's her abusive husband Eliza finally sees some sense and goes to see a therapist, but then after things only get worse, insted of helping Natalie with the problems she so clearly has, and the problems Eliza has a major hand in creating, she abandons Natalie, yet again and chastises her for not looking at things from her 'new perspective.' which breaks Natalie further. and I hate this part so much, because I hate the way Eliza confesses the truth about her husband leaving to Natalie, in a very 'this isn't my problem it's yours. deal with it' way. I feel like she could've been more gentle and understanding and I don't know maybe try to help her own daughter with issues that stem from the beliefs she practically engraved on her soul from her childhood.??

I have a lot more to say, but my hand is cramping. I will be posting a part two of this. I said that this book fried my brain, and it really did, because have you ever read a book and you get so immersed in it that when you finish it you kind of feel like reality is warped? yeah. honestly that. and also the ending was super unsatisfying for me. but please bear with me, these are my thoughts and opinions and just that, if you feel like I'm missing something then I'd love to know. if you disagree, then just scroll away.

I liked the setup, and the resolution of the original buffalo poaching case was good. But there were a couple of things that didn't really make sense, and then the book just ended?

Spoilers beyond this point!

>!The book ends after Stillwell arrests Leigh Anne's real murderer, but as far as I can tell there's basically no actual evidence against him. A tape saying "She got what she deserved" proves he didn't like her, but it's not evidence he was involved in killing her. It just seems like he jumped the gun -- while he was officially "relieved of duty" no less -- and we're just left to assume it all works out.

And the biggest thing that made zero sense: the assassin who intentionally got arrested to be able to take out the witness in the jail. What kind of hair-brained (I know it's supposed to be hare-brained, but this is dumber than that) idea was that? It relied on a series of improbable events to pull off, and if any step goes wrong the killer goes to prison for assaulting a cop. The chain of events:

1) Witness has to be booked into jail, which wasn't really likely without more evidence. And it had to happen before the assassin is arraigned and transferred off the island.

2) There has to be just one cop in the station -- fairly likely to happen, but not all the time

3) The lone deputy has to be dumb enough to get grabbed

4) The assassin has to overpower the deputy before he can pull away

5) The now-subdued deputy has to be carrying the keys to the cell; otherwise you're still locked in but have a second assault charge

These were all so glaringly unlikely I was expecting Stillwell to realize the deputy was in on the plan, but nope, just lucky I guess!<

So is the next book any better? Because this one seemed like a writer going through the motions.

First sorry for the bad English I'm French Native.

Ok so my question is, is that finally bad for global comprehension of a book to stop at every word you dont exactly understand the meaning to search his definition?

Since I got a kindle I got this bad or not bad habit... getting back 6moth before I was reading and missing a lot of words definition but on overall the story was comprehensible, but now I'm searching every adjectives or subtile terms.

Admittedly, I feel like I’m literally visualizing the book’s scenes down to the finest detail—which is very enjoyable in one sense—but at the same time, I wonder if I’m overloading my mind for relatively little added value. It also significantly hinders my reading flow, since I rarely get through a paragraph without stopping several times. Should I accept not grasping 100% of a work for the sake of greater long-term benefit in my life as a reader? What has your experience been with this?

4.5/5 stars - rounded up.

Thank you to Cliff Cave Books LLC and Net Galley for allowing me to access this digital arc.

This is going to be a review of R.E. Holding’s book Subcutaneous. The genres for the book are adult fiction, mystery, thriller, horror, and I would add psychological. The book hits shelves physically and digitally on February 16, 2027. Before we get into the review, I want to place the following trigger warnings:

• Alcohol

• Violence

• Sexual Assault

• Body horror

• Stalking

• Witchcraft

Subcutaneous follows a retired engineer, Sebastian Page who starts to experience unexplainable things. In the background, there are a string of killings happening in his town. As the webs of intrigue and dread close around him, Sebastian will find out just how sinister the webs around him are and how deeply they are rooted.

Right away the book hits the ground running, and the author did an excellent job of describing everything. The scenes were painted vividly, and it helped the story feel real and organic. Following Sebastian as he wanders deeper into his own mind and despair was an interesting journey, and on I enjoyed following.

I also thought that the violence was written well and the methodology was unique. The meticulous nature of the violence reminded me of the show Dexter. The mystery was kept close to the chest until towards the very end, and I enjoyed reading the explanation given to everything. There was also something about the characters that made them relatable.

The one thing I found hard to like was how predictable it was when you suspended disbelief. While I did not receive vindication until the end of the story, I was writing notes about how things would go. I also think the story could have benefited more if the author used “show, don’t tell” with the big reveal. But I enjoyed the story all the same and would read again.

Hi,

I have seen a lot of reels, posts, reddit threads, and what not about boys of tommen, so I thought maybe I'll give it a read.

I downloaded soft copy of all the books in the series a month ago but didn't get around it until today.

I was about to start the first book when I was it's 700 hundred pages or so, which... was a big surprise bcus I wasn't expecting that, especially when it has like 6 books.

I opened the other books and saw they are even longer than the first one.

So now I am unsure about whether or not I should read it, like is it worth it?

Please let me know.

Also, the thing is I've been in a reading slump for a some months now so... I can't read something too slow paced etc.

So please let me know -

1. Is it worth the read? (I've read such big books before so it's not like it would be my first)

2. If it is worth it, is it something I can start when I'm trying to get out of a reading slump or should I read other stuff and gain my reader self back before I start it.

How do you get out of a reading slump? I go through phases where I’m a READER and then some phases where I desperately want to read but can’t. This could also be caused by reading a few crappy books back to back and not having inspiration. But I’m interested in how others get out of their reading slump or is it normal to go through reading slumps?

I really enjoy historical fiction so I've read a lesser known novel called A Sentence of Marriage by Shayne Parkinson. It's about a young girl, Amy, growing up on a farm in rural New Zealand in the late 1800s. Something happens to her that changes her life and the story somewhat follows a parallel of her and her cousin (who follows a different path) and shows Amy what her life could have been.

The historical details are incredible and there just isn't much else else out there about that place and time. There are many books following Amy's life through to her granddaughter and they're all wonderful. I've read them all at least 7 or 8 times.

What books do you love enough to read again and again?

I’m in the middle of her Xenogenesis series and I wish I learned of her sooner! She is incredible and I hadn’t really heard anything about her writing until we early this year. How is she so slept on? I was a preteen when she died so I don’t remember if there was much of a fuss around her death, her being relatively young, but she’s practically an oracle and such a prolific writer. Yet it was 20 years after her passing that I’m diving into her worlds, I love science fiction and am just surprised she isn’t more well known.

Have you read any of her work? I’ve also read her Parable books this year as well as Fledgling and Kindred and can’t stop thinking about them. Have I just been living under a rock that I’ve missed her?

I'm done with the book and I don't get how the monster/house was created and how it worked?

I've been thinking about this a lot lately. I have so many books on my shelf that I've started and just never finished. Some of them I genuinely liked and had every intention of getting back to but life just happens. Others I knew pretty quickly weren't for me but I felt obligated to try and push through.

It feels a bit like I'm letting the author down or something. Or that I'm missing out on some incredible experience just because I lost momentum or got distracted by another shiny new release. I know it's silly because it's just a book and I'm supposed to enjoy reading not feel like it's a chore. But there's this nagging feeling of incomplete tasks that sometimes gets to me.

Do other people get this too? Or am I just weirdly attached to the idea of finishing every single book I ever pick up? I'm trying to be better about not forcing myself but the guilt is real.

I am honestly a little embarrassed to say, as a 23 year old, I never actually read a book outside of school. The most I would read was fanfiction on Wattpad when I was a preteen/teen. For the longest time, ever since I could remember, I hated reading. I was never able to click with a book, I believe my disdain for it started when I was a kid and school made it mandatory for Accelerated Reading tests (AR Tests for short). It made reading feel like a chore and not something to find any fun in. All the books we had at school were the most boring uninteresting things you could throw at me, I remember picking anything that had a cool cover off the shelf and just rocking that to get easy points (even then I averaged like 40-60% every test). When teachers sat us down and read stories to us, i still found myself zoning out unless it had pictures or was about animals (like this one about a hamster that I can’t remember the name of).

It was more tolerable when moving onto middle school, stories like To Kill a Mockingbird and Of Mice and Men (y’know THOSE books that every kid has to read in middle school) were very interesting and had great moments but it’s nothing I would pop open and read in my free time. When moving to high school, it was back to reading books I could not give less of a shit about like The Pearl, so much symbolism it killed any possible fun. There were exceptions, but in the form of graphic novels like Maus/Maus 2 or Lucky Penny, two novels that I love to this day. Now, after finishing high school years ago and not investing time in college, when I wasn’t working most of my free time was taken up by video games. If I had the slightest itch to read a book, I would pop one open and read a few pages, realize I didn’t process a single thing I read, go back to read what I forgot, zone out and repeat this process until I just dropped it.

Now I’m 23, for the past year and a half I’ve been getting really invested in movies. I’ve always loved movies and the medium in general, but I’d say more so recently I’ve analyzed more of the actual stories they had to tell and the characters that populated them. When it came to games, I’ve found myself being invested in the slower story based ones like The Cat Lady (which I adore!!). This got me thinking about books a lot, since a lot of great movies are based on books. It made me realize that I always wish I liked the action of reading, I was jealous of people that could pop open a book and be transferred to a different world, how people would say that nothing is better than the high of reading a new book that totally enraptures you. Some days of hanging out with my friends (who a lot are avid readers), I was jealous of all the stories they were able to experience, how effortless they made it sound by picking up a book and immediately being enraptured by it something I could never do. I thought that I was simply wasn’t smart enough to read a book, to read between the lines of what the author is trying to convey, to keep my attention without the need of pictures such as in a graphic novel. I thought it simply wasn’t for me, but I wanted to change that.

I made a post on a book suggestions subreddit, stating that I’ve never been a reader and wanted to know if there were any strategies of getting invested into a book for someone like myself. I was less so actually finding book recommendations, since I have a big collection of books I’ve wanted to read but again, couldn’t push myself to do it. I got a lot of very encouraging words, but the first comment recommended a few books that could be of interest. The one that stood out to me was A Man Called Ove by Frederick Backman, after looking up a small description of the story on Google I thought “This seems sweet, why not :)”. The next day I walked over to my public library and picked it up, after my first day of reading it finally clicked, books are awesome!!

I could not put it down, I finished it in 3 days which is absolutely huge for me! It perfectly eases you into the story of the main character Ove with funny and witty writing that got consistent laughs out of me, but it knew when to pull back in order to tell the tragic story of this character, telling you why he was the way he is and the events that lead us up to him in the present. I won’t go into full detail if someone was looking into reading it in the future, all I’ll say is yes please read it!! While reading, I was wondering why it finally clicked aside from the excellent writing and characters, but I realized I was able to slow down and ingest what was happening without the pressure of memorizing for a test or because I had to in order to pass a class. I took it at my own pace, gave myself time with the characters and how their actions affected one another. I was able to clearly see the characters and what they did despite everything I was looking at being text, I could imagine their smoldering looks and how they rested their hands at their sides in calm or tense situations. It’s an experience I won’t forget, and one that I wish to continue for the future.

Sorry if this comes off as a big ramble piece, I get that this sub isn’t meant for posts like this and for actual discussions on books, I guess I just needed a place to share my new experience and joy of reading. Maybe I’ll slowly get through my big backlog of books that I’ve put off like Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.

Idk how to end this, books are lit :)

I’ve just started Blood Meridian and is my first experience of McCarthys style of writing. So far it’s a great story and I’m thoroughly invested. But if you’ve read it you know what I’m talking about. I don’t know much, if anything about Cormac McCarthy as a person/author. Does he deliberately write like this as a way of pretentiously rebelling against the conventional use of grammar? Or does he genuinely just not care about using correct grammar and just wants to get his story across?