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Blood Meridian (or The Evening Redness in the West) by Cormac McCarthy. Quickly became my favorite book after reading it a second time. I've never read a book with more effective language.

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Listened to this as an audiobook, and recommend the format for this specific book. The language is amazing but the subject is so brutal. The audiobook relentlessly drives forward, delivering the language and imagery without pause. I think I might not have finished the text.

Second McCarthy’s “effective language” attribution.

I read The Road, and it was so sufficiently “effective” in its descriptions and it’s setting that I’m happy never reading another McCarthy book again. Glad I did once.

I will watch the movies though!

I absolutely loved The Road, but I couldn't finish Blood Meridian ... I had no interest in the setting or the characters at all.

it's gruesome. I love westerns but in a way this is some kind of anti-western. Captivating however, in the same way 'Heart of Darkness' - Joseph Conrad , is.

I too read this (after putting it off for some time). It could be a bit hard going at times, but definitely worth it.

I went out and bought The Road but for some reason or another haven't yet started it (have watched the film though).

I’m reading his Outer Dark for the second time. That epic, almost Biblical style of his early books is unsurpassed.

What do you think happened in the jakes? I'm in the voluntary homosexual encounter hypothesis camp.

I second this, it’s incredible, so well crafted.

You never forget the Judge.

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