It’s a brutal book but worth pushing through. I have always loved the way he uses Spanish dialogue, FWIW!
I understand what you mean though with comparison to Tarantino in that many McCarthy books have been made into movies for the masses, the whole shock value factor…but like others have said I think it’s more about the time period in this situation. And the brutality of the characters
This is a unique situation where the movie was actually way better than the book. It had an artsy dark humorous quality that didn’t come through in the book for me anyway