Try reading “Child of God” it’s way more violent then Blood Meridian and only 200 pages

insightful!

Wendy spat.

Excellent analysis!

Beautiful bookshelf thanks for sharing! I always like seeing people's books. It's like a little window into their interests and I can tell yours are very eclectic. Highly recommend Heart of Darkness - I read it in high school and it's one of my favorite books. Heavy read but very thought-provoking and formative for me

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Just an incredible novel, it stuck with me way more than The Road which is the only other McCarthy I've read so far. I know lot's of people who don't like it, so then they insist that people are only pretending to enjoy it to appear intelligent. Maybe there are some folks like that, but that doesn't mean some of us don't absolutely get it, understand it, and love it exactly for what it is, a masterpiece of novel writing.

So many books and so little time. Happy reading to you.

The one director who could adapt this is Zack Snyder.

This is the sort of book that people say they like to make themselves look smart. The truth is, it's a miserable reading experience, in every sense.

I love this book because there is so many different ways you can interpret it. You can interpret it literally. You can interpret it like "Sixth Sense" where "the child" dies in the first 15 minutes and the rest of the story is his struggle vs the devil (Judge Holden) in purgatory.

I love your cozy library. I'm glad YT suggested your channel. I'm trying to expand my reading and it's nice to see some books in your collection that I haven't heard of.

Love the sounds! And that music! What is it from?

I was almost going to be sad you would not mention Lee but then finally you did, haha! Because honestly, Lee was just my most favorite character throughout the book, just how kind and selfless and wise, and fun he was. Caleb - I liked him too, maybe also because I get him, in a way, as a middle child; and in other ways too....Unfortunately. I guess, unfortunately :') But it's okay. Anyway, Caleb I liked him & I get it he was only a teen back then during the main events unfolding but he was so mean to Lee oftentimes! Haha. Makes me feel for Lee even more, too. Just how in general it was like he is just a servant, this whole racism thing (how other characters also treated him). Makes me sad. As a Central Asian myself, too, haha. Anyway! Either way. I am so happy and so thankful John Steinbeck included Lee as a character. Literally all the quotes, all the wisdom I highlighted and marked throughout the book- of Lee's. And representation, too. Just so cool he knew so much about the Chinese/Asians, John, I mean. Oh and I am still wondering if Cal and Aron are Charles's kids and not Adam's. And Adam was pissing me off so much, oh man. I need to think on this. What it is exactly. But how he loved Cathy/Kate when she literally shot him to leave her alone. I cannot. What was it about it. Why was he so clingy, so dumb, so naive. The whole thing with Adam and his preference of Aron.....Aghhh made me so angry, to be honest. I just finished the book earlier this week. Been reading it on and off since last year. Starting page 350-400 I think I was intentionally reading it more slowly for that I did not want it to end sooner. Loved it so much. And also, as for the narrator of the book- I still dont get it. I mean, I kinda was thinking well yeah, John is the writer, he is the narrator (was), but what you're saying is that the Hamiltons existed in real life hence.. he was reporting on the events? Some of the real life events? // (also, i was reminding myself ofc that it was so long ago, and obviously also because people were maybe bored too they would act like Adam Trask- falling in love with such a woman blah blah blah. Like, in our times, I really doubt anything like that could happen due to obvious reasons such as the variety of choices, access, availability, etc. But really though, or maybe it ofc was also Adam's trauma due to his mother's passing, not being loved hence this was the only kind of "love" he knew/wanted.... the kind of love that is impossible. unreachable. i get that in a way but still.) Abra btw..I am also curious how she turned out to be the way she was. With such parents. As Lee said, seemed like okay people, good people, but we see how quite surface-level like they were, how racist, classist and everything they were. Yet Abra was also..I don't know. I kinda started liking her at the end of the book and feeling for her, too. But she was also kind of mean to Lee haha. Never said thank you to him! For he cooked for her, gave his most precious gift haha. Maybe it's just me and my (over)politeness, too. But it really bothered me how she never said thank you to him. Never. Not once. I kept checking. And Cathy too. I am glad you mentioned how it says in the book that some people are just born "like that". But it still bothers me, I am curious..Her parents seemed to be good people for real yet she...k!llled them! she was so mean from the very beginning. So interesting. Like..Why. Anyway, I need to sit and think more I guess, too. Thank you for your awesome review. Would love to hear from you if you have any thoughts on my comments above. Either way, thanks!

I loved this haul, got a lot of recommendations!! ❤ Please do a bookshelf tour, i have a feeling many of us will love it!

A dark book for sure, but my favorite book.

I'm new to this , but in my little book club October will be Frankenstein!. I'm so excited that I found this channel !

Solid !

The nature of the judge leaves the man's life most likely sexually assaulted and killed. That's the judges nature. Compare it to when he meets him in jail. " I would've loved you like a son (sic) " and he tries grabbing him. The judge is not above grooming children and the character is called the kid.

The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day.

Whoa cool video !

Bold start to the day… 👌🏼

Yes, to all of what you’re punch-pleased about. I read Moby Dick every summer because it’s about…everything. Except women. Thanks for opening up. 🩵🩶

Such impressive composure for a video-review neophyte-exceptionally cool…thanks,Wendy!

Ah, I must confess, I adore magical realism & fantasy. Can't take to SciFi (especially dystopia), but mythology, & anything with a dragon, mage or ghost - wow... I really enjoy Murakami. The Robert Fagels verse translations of Homer are fantastic. I'm about to launch into the Emily Wilson verse translations of Homer - can't wait. I also write & vlog a lot about mental health, creativity & other angst. Stuff happens. I really enjoy Camus, Sartre & de Beauvoir. Iris Murdoch did some amazing work on Sartre. Paris must have sparkled when they all shone. Ah, Stein is amazing. I hope she is not forgotten. Not many readers enthuse about her now - sad. Very engaging video - thanks!

I'm a big fan of Lispector as well. I'm a big fan of stream-of-consciousness in general. And I'm also really enjoying the Benjamin Moser bio. Very engaging video, thank you.

Lovely to discover your channel. I am also new to BookTube as a creator, & I'm really enjoying it. I look forward to following your bookish adventures.

Not trying to be a dick or come off as condescending, but you need to think on it and read it a few more times. I think a good portion of what you read went over your head. That is not an insult it goes over everyone’s head it’s deep enough that it is puzzled over in college classes. Give it a few more reads it’s saying much more than I think you’re getting out of it.

Hi Wendy..Great Book Review and you know since Halloween is now around the corner you know you can sing a story in a song ?..well there is a Mexican song called La Cuerva De La Petaca about a Witch who turns into a Crow at night in Linares Nuevo Leon Mexico a region called la Petaca famous for witches in Linares Nuevo Leon Mexico yes and Carlos y Jose Jr. Sing the song La Cuerva de La Petaca on youtube video.

Thanks for this. You succinctly summed all my feelings about this great read. I keep returning to it and finding new thoughts Ellman wrote that feel like they are straight from my own mind.

Wendy is dancing, dancing. She says that she will never die

Excellent review!

"You can practically smell the piles of corpses as you read this." Love it!

The making gunpowder scene of the brim of a volcano is a nod to Book Vi of Paradise Lost (Milton). Many of the violent scenes come directly from real world descriptions, supposedly Samuel Chamberlain's My Confessions. Yale Courses online has 2 episodes on Blood Meridian; which I recommend.

Hey Wendy! I had to abandon your review about six minutes in, as I like to go in blind with books. It was probably not the best idea to have clicked on this, but there we are. I am not a huge fan of writing that does not have punctuation; in fact, I am a little punctuation obsessed 😅 However, I do not disregard books on thet basis so perhaps still one for me to read. I have not read any of his works. What would you say is a good place to start? Great video (so far!). ❤

an excellent review of an excellent novel

I appreciate your thorough reviews. I've only read The Road but will definitely add this one to my TBR.

Favourite Mcarthy after Suttree. Thanks for the video, Wendy.

happy to have found another gabo enthusiast! what a delicious haul. subscribed!

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Too funny! I stumbled onto your channel today which coincidentally, I finished Until August today. As I Lay Dying is my favorite Faulkner. It has many layers and symbolism, and requires concentration. The epitome of Southern Gothic. I think Joseph Campbell has a "key" on how to read Finnegan's Wake, which is almost as thick. Too dense and too many brain cycles for me.

Have you read Herman Hesse's Steppenwolf, or Siddhartha? If not, based upon what I see on your shelves, recommended

What a thorough bookshelf tour! Thank you for taking the time. Your taste in literature is superb...it's nice to see a bookshelf tour without a bunch of new releases and the same books everyone else is reading. You've sparked my curiosity about several authors I have not heard about but will definitely research. Thanks again.

I read Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose and loved it. Putting Foucult's Pendulum on my TBR.

Loved this book! I read it at the height of Covid and devoured it in days. Like you said it’s meditative almost hypnotic and as the world was anxious living thru a pandemic I was able to really feel the narrator’s anxiety and get stuck in her stream of thoughts and the mundanity of it all which was my living experience. Thanks for spotlighting this one!

Looks so cozy!!!

Congratulation on reaching 150 subscribers. Plenty there to keep you busy. Happy reading.

So nice to see lit fic hauls! Adding until august to my tbr!

I want to read one hundred years of solitude and I can't wait your review in the future of a little life , about kafka I tried once to read the trail but I couldn't get through the 3 shapter I found it so hard I guess metamorphosis is the best start

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