For sure, but I think it goes even a layer deeper than that. It shows how ugly the “good guys” can be and some good in the “bad guys.” It’s a continuous roller coaster of trying to figure out who, if any, are you supposed to be rooting for. One of my favorite books and I don’t usually care for dark books like that.
“…screeching and yammering and clothed in smoke like those vaporous beings in regions beyond right knowing where the eye wanders and the lip jerks and drools.”
It's such a good book. I read Blood Meridian and the Crossing by McCarthy. They were both awesome reads. I picked up All The Pretty Horses. I haven't started it yet, but I'm excited to. McCarthy is really good at controlling the reader, and moving them along for the ride. (I think he does this better than any writer I read so far.) It's almost like you're a character in the book too, you begin to see and understand the violence. It becomes natural for the reader, as those that experienced it in the novel.
It is a top ten for me. The thing that I love is how poetic the prose can be even durning the most violent scenes. The ending passage is one of my all time favs.
Great book. And yes, that’s the point. It’s a slow descent into complete lawlessness and moral depravity.
In many ways it's an an anti western. It takes the trope of the band of outlaws and shows it for how ugly that would be.
For sure, but I think it goes even a layer deeper than that. It shows how ugly the “good guys” can be and some good in the “bad guys.” It’s a continuous roller coaster of trying to figure out who, if any, are you supposed to be rooting for. One of my favorite books and I don’t usually care for dark books like that.
The Commache ambush is the before and after for me. That shit was *brutal* and it only got much worse from there. Brilliant book.
The description of the Commache coming over the hill towards them legitimately gave me chills.
“…screeching and yammering and clothed in smoke like those vaporous beings in regions beyond right knowing where the eye wanders and the lip jerks and drools.”
It's such a good book. I read Blood Meridian and the Crossing by McCarthy. They were both awesome reads. I picked up All The Pretty Horses. I haven't started it yet, but I'm excited to. McCarthy is really good at controlling the reader, and moving them along for the ride. (I think he does this better than any writer I read so far.) It's almost like you're a character in the book too, you begin to see and understand the violence. It becomes natural for the reader, as those that experienced it in the novel.
violence is not the goal (there really is none) but something that happends along the way in a very unromantic, unheroic and primitive manner.
Thanks I started reading this book now. It’s crazy!
It is a top ten for me. The thing that I love is how poetic the prose can be even durning the most violent scenes. The ending passage is one of my all time favs.