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What is the most disturbing book you have ever read?
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The Road by Cormac McCarthy, it's just so goddamn bleak. Nothing ever goes well and just about everybody is horrible, not a book I'll likely read again even though I did enjoy it. Same with the movie, it's just such a kick in the guts that I won't be rewatching it even though it was great.
This is funny, I immediately thought of Blood Meridian when I read the post title, then came in and saw another Cormac McCarthy book!
Came here to add No Country For Old Men
Shit, McCarthy wrote that too? Goddamn.
A writer of cheerful books he ain't
Wasn't. Died two days ago. :'(
I'm not even sure why I think of Blood Meridian over The Road. Maybe now that I have child rereading the road would make it worse. But I feel that especially upon a few rereads Blood Meridian has some really dark things happening that aren't immediately apparent.
And I suppose part of my choice might be because I find The Judge to be both the most fascinating and horrifying character in anything I've read or seen.
Was going to say the same thing, upon a recent reread the Road is still pretty damned harrowing
There's plenty of relatively bleak stuff out there, so I thought I was fine with The Road. Until the basement. RIP Cormac.