The prose is biblical but inferior to the Bible’s and the depiction of violence is not really meaningful because you’re always tagging along with the perpetrators of atrocities and therefore feeling excitement on some level whenever they let blood. Compared to literature of antiquity like The Trojan Women or The Iliad, this book doesn’t really add anything to our understanding of what exactly war is. It’s just Tarantino with great prose. If it switched POV back and forth between the Glanton gang and the Indians it would’ve been much more meaningful
>>24113129You might as well be upset it didn't add to understanding of what stone is
>>24113218ESL
Shame about your autism, but at least there's plenty of other books for you to enjoy
>>24113129>If it switched POV back and forth between the Glanton gang and the Indians it would’ve been much more meaningfulwhat a dumb idea. you are dumb
>>24113129War isn't the sole focus of the novel though. While the Judge's philosophy definitely venerates war as reality's truest law, the book is about more than just that. Violence and human depravity in the absence of order are arguably more of the central themes in the novel than warfare.
>>24113385The same criticism would apply to those
>>24113252spammer
>>24113129I disagree
>>24113129I liked it when they made gunpowder with piss
>>24113129The gang killing indians isn’t even half of the book
>>24113129Shockingly retarded opinion desu ne
>>24113129You think the Illiad and trojan women adds to your "understanding of what war is"? You think McCarthy was asking himself when he wrote this leaning back in his chair and staring at the ceiling of his barn, "what exactly IS war? Hmmmm."?
>>24113129>If it switched POV back and forth between the Glanton gang and the Indians it would’ve been much more meaningful
>>24114734I listened to the audiobook at work and the way the narrator says "AND WE WERE PISSIN" during that part made me lol
>>24113129>same book but better
this is a great example of how not to read literature
