Extreme violence and convouluted sentences fill this book. A tree of dead babies, scalp afet scalp cut off from the heads of Indians. The only character that was flushed out was The Judge. He was a creepy hairless albino who stood near 7 feet tall, spoke several languages, was versed in law, played the fiddle, and could dance. Oh and he was extremely violent. The preacher near the begining of the book who calls The Judge the devil was right.
I just couldn't get into this book. Felt repetative at time and the vioence was overdone in my opinion. I have greatly enjoyed some of McCarthy's other books but I just couldn't enjoy this book as much as I had hoped. I think the vocab choice was also an area that this book missed. Using archaic words that at a certain point I stopped caring to look up made me probably lose some of the story.
There was some brilliant prose in this book (like the description of the coals in the fire), and scenes that are creepy (coin trick) and scenes that are scary (Judge searching for the Kid), and scenes that are boring. I will probably try rereading this book in the future to see if it sticks with me more then.
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