Read religiously as a kid and young teen, then a series of unenjoyable books kind of ruined it for me… not helped by the fact that I went to a variety of international schools and read the same book that I hated 3 times in 3 years on different cutriculums.
Since then I could probably count on 1 hand the amount of books I read in my 20s, but recently made an effort to start it up again.
I read Blood Meridian this year and thoroughly enjoyed it, but it was a pretty challenging experience and took me a couple of months. After that I read Frankenstein (1831) over the course of a few days, which i thought was… decent… and now I'm sinking into The Road which so far is fantastic.
My issue is I have little knowledge of authors and styles, but what ive realised this time round (after multiple attempts of getting back into it) is that I do like the bleak and horror adjacent content of Mccarthy writing, however I sometimes wish his writing was a bit more… cohesive.
Is there any author or book someone can recommend me that has a similar sense of surreal landscape description as Blood Meridian, and the bleakness found in The Road, but perhaps written in a way which I can maybe go through in a week or two? I've got 2666 on my bookshelf, but the size of it is… intimidating to say the least.
by ManInCripplingDebt