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I've been reading this book and often the author goes back to French war and this totally distracts me from the plot ( mainly because I have no background in French history ). I'm trying to research the French revolution to make sense of the story - which I find a but hard. Also I don't want to miss the history part of Les miserables that's why I'm so insistent on getting acquainted with the war part. Any suggestions to cope with the French war while reading the novel
I've been going through my library, looking at all the old books I have, stuff I haven't read in a really really long time, around when I was 8-10. As a kid, I loved reading classic books. Something about the oldness of the language, the historical settings and so so much detail really appealed to me.
But apparently, the one thing that was not in my interest was the actual plot of the books. I just went through Frankenstein and it was completely different from what I remember I read! To me, it was an action story with a bloody battle at the end and the Monster dying. Same with Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. According to 8 year old me, Mr. Hyde was had some subplot about getting married which doesn't exist at all.
What I've gathered is that I was a kid who had no clue what was going on and let my overactive imagination fill these gaps. Anyone else experience this or was I just one strange kid.
So I’m about 75% done with this book and the beauty of the writing and imagery and everything has made me fall in love with McCarthy and since this is my first read of his books I will be reading more. I found this one on “most disturbing” book lists and I don’t know, I wouldn’t say I’m disappointed or anything because discovering this masterpiece is going to shotgun me into delving into more reads about First Nation holocaust but I’m just not as disturbed as I expected. Maybe since I believe everyone should be aware of these atrocities, they happened, and it’s disturbing yes but it’s American history and although it’s a work of fiction it’s incredibly important to grasp the full scope of how Europeans decimated used and abused First Nation people. It’s more of a historical read for me. Completely fascinating and it really makes me itch to learn more about how fucked my European ancestors were and how America is shaped by it today. So tldr, Blood Meridian is a must read in my opinion, very rough with disturbing elements but the message and writing outshines the “disturbing “ aspect completely. Anyone else feel the same?
Edit: maybe it was all the hype and fear of the book I was looking at before reading it that made me prepared for its disturbing nature which ultimately lead to not being as shocked as I would have been going in cold. It’s very popular right now and a lot of people are talking about it
I just finished reading a book that is supposed to be really sad and heartbreaking and many people wrote in their reviews that it completely broke them but i didn’t feel that. And this makes me realise that only 1 or 2 books genuinely made me feel something. For some reason i just don’t feel that connection to the story and the characters and even if i loved the book it doesn’t make me feel the same things as for other people… please tell me i’m not alone lacking empathy for fictional characters
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