>>108844War and Peace has some great philosophical discussions but a lot of that book could be cut down to be more accessible. Great book though but many people are intimated by its length and the first chapter hitting readers with rare words for Russian furniture and French on the first page.
I finished Blood Meridian this week and it’s keyed. All of Mccarthy’s books read the same, all of them are pessimistic and about the failure of authority. The scenes where the kid and the priest are being pursued by the Judge in the desert, the section where the kid is known as the man and it’s 14 years in the future and he’s just raveling my is masterful prose, just describing the American southwest and ‘yellow skinned men that spoke like cats’ is keyed.
Last year I read Les Miserables, War and Peace, finished the Odyssey, tried to read the idiot but got bored, finished the Iliad, and read the Aeneid, Ivanhoe, Goethe’s Faust, and Ulysses. I don’t know what to read now that I finished blood Meridian, it has left me speechless.
