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neonun-au · 2 years

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since i love to watch you rant, i'll go with 18

- livvie (yes this is for the book recs ask game)

aha, i do love a rant it must be said lol

book rec asks

18. your least favorite book ever

there are so many in contention for this, but one comes top of mind. it's been years since i read it, but i truly truly despised blood meridian by cormac mccarthy.

even more so because i actually love cormac mccarthy and the way that he writes. the road is one of my all time favourites and no country for old men is truly phenomenal. he is one of very few classic us american authors that i can stand and actually sink into, but blood meridian was absolute fucking torture.

it's lauded so highly by circle jerking lit bros and i just...it just reminds me of the way that men will enjoy american psycho or fight club while completely missing the overarching themes. like they dont get the whole satire aspect of it, they just love the extreme violence and the appeal to their sensationalist brains.

it's just the flattest characters alive set against a backdrop of completely mundane violence, if that makes sense? like the violence is so extreme and so intense but it is treated so mundanely. and i know that these are the entire points of the book. the themes and thoughts behind the choices did not escape me, but i just cannot fucking stand it.

i get that it's meant to show that violence and these extreme negative things are often treated as just such mundane acts, especially considering the setting of the book itself in north america at that time when the genocide against first nations and native populations was incredibly active and state sanctioned. i get that. i just hate that it is. it feels almost more exploitative than anything. the point is that there is no point and i just....i just cant get down with that, generally. its the same reason i didn't enjoy the tropic of cancer.

ill cap it there because my memory of that book is generally spotty, but reading it did feel like torture even in spite of mccarthy's excellent prose.

runners up for least favourite book are: the fault in our stars, and any poetry by amanda lovelace

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