I’m 44 and recently finished the book. I share most of your opinions on it. A hard read in more ways than one, but one I’m glad to have finished.
One thing I felt made the book a bit more unnecessarily difficult to read (on top of the constant torture/murder-porn aspect) was how McCarthy kept using obscure words that I have never heard before. Someone on reddit mentioned that he was actually making up words for some of this stuff (I never verified if that is true).
Anyway, glad I read it. Probably won’t read it all the way through again. May or may not read some of his other works.
I’m 44 and recently finished the book. I share most of your opinions on it. A hard read in more ways than one, but one I’m glad to have finished.
One thing I felt made the book a bit more unnecessarily difficult to read (on top of the constant torture/murder-porn aspect) was how McCarthy kept using obscure words that I have never heard before. Someone on reddit mentioned that he was actually making up words for some of this stuff (I never verified if that is true).
Anyway, glad I read it. Probably won’t read it all the way through again. May or may not read some of his other works.