Comanche Moon By Larry McMurtry
Comanche Moon By Larry McMurtry 4 stars.
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The Bullet Swallower By Elizabeth Gonzalez James
The Bullet Swallower By Elizabeth Gonzalez James 4 stars.
Blood Meridian By Cormac McCarthy
Blood Meridian By Cormac McCarthy Blood Meridian loosely follows a fourteen year old nicknamed The Kid as he joins a gang on the hunt for Indian scalps in the 1850s on the Texas-Mexico border. This is a very graphic and depraved look at the morals this group of men lacked on their bloodthirsty quest to make money from the heads of those they deemed to be less than human. In so doing, their own lack of humanity is on full display with McCarthy's mastery of prose. It is a sick and twisted narrative elevated through amazing writing. The setting is bleak and nightmarish with despicable characters, some based on real people, who engage in the grossest displays of evil with no remorse. One of the most vivid and memorable of these characters is a man called the Judge, who seems like a devil creature who is the decider (the judge) of what is allowed to exist and what is not, as he spends his time between massacres drawing and cataloguing the things he sees. He is the ultimate dec...
The Dark Tower 1: The Gunslinger by Stephen King
The Dark Tower 1: The Gunslinger by Stephen King The first in The Dark Tower series, The Gunslinger follows the main character, Roland Deschains, through a desert wasteland of the End World in search of the man in black, who he hopes to kill, and who can point him towards the location of the Tower where he is to make his final battle. Roland comes from a wealthy and important family and became a gunslinger at the age of fourteen by besting his teacher in a bloody battle. Along the way he encounters a man brought back to life by the man in black, a woman who runs a saloon who uses him for sex in exchange for answers, and a town full of people who try to kill him. Then Roland finds a 12-year-old boy named Jake who seems to come from our contemporary world, but who had been run over by a car and killed, ending up waking in the End World. Jake has been staying in an abandoned building in the desert, and Roland takes him along on the journey, but ultimately sacrifices the boy in order ...