OYENTE

Glenn

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Wow, this book was boring...

Total
2 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
4 out of 5 stars
Historia
1 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 09-12-24

-No or only minor spoilers, I discuss some very general plot points.-

Maybe it's just me.
I found this book after googling "books like Blood Meridian"
This book was nothing like Blood Meridian. Blood Meridian was an ugly story beautifully told. It was a hot, hard look into raw human nature at its worst. It was gritty, strange, dark, bleak, nihilistic...

This book was boring. My god, it wouldn't end, and it wasn't even that long...
The excellent prose everyone is talking about in other reviews? Just go ahead and imagine hours of a 'Chevy truck' cowboy having brooding, moody conversations over endless cigarettes and cheap domestic beer. Most of these conversations are between the main character, Roy a.k.a. "Big Country", and a young prostitute with a terrible life. It doesn't get much better after meeting Roy, but I won't spoil the fun.

In short, the plot was paper thin, the characters were 2-D cardboard cut-outs, and I simply couldn't find anything to like about the main character, Roy. He was a hypocrite and flake. A real trailer park Jesus, complete with his sacrifice to wash clean the sins of lesser characters.

Too bad its about 2 hours of interesting events sandwiched between about 5 hours of tedious conversations and philosophical musings. Yawn.

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Good book, goofy narrator...

Total
3 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
2 out of 5 stars
Historia
3 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 05-10-23

Narrator reads slow, pauses too long, and mispronounces Macaque for half the book before switching it up and getting it right.

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