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What's a title that is worth it (to you) to have both the physical copy and the audiobook? (self.books)
submitted 5 months ago by eightpix to c/books
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There are only a few books that I've experienced both ways. I'm wondering if this is an area for exploration.

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[–] eightpix 2 points 5 months ago

Read The Passenger, then Stella Maris.

Blood Meridian is an amazing, terrifying, shocking, and eye-opening book. Ill never see another "Western" the same way again. It is among McCarthy's most visceral.

I cannot recommend to anyone that they read this book. Much in the same way I love films like Requiem For a Dream, Dancer in the Dark, or Melancholia, I can't inflict them on others. Blood Meridian is this perspective in book form.

If you've steeled yourself, by all means embark on Blood Meridian. Don't say I didn't warn you.