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This book has taken way too long to get good, but here we are, this is actually riveting now.

I really loved The Road, I really loved No Country for Old Men, but this book is just testing my patience. No apparent thread holding the plot together, just a band of mercenaries going from town to town slaughtering Mexicans and Native Americans alike. I really don't understand why this book is held up as McCarthy's great masterpiece. It seems quite evident that his later works show immense growth for his writing.

This is simply brilliant

Really enjoying this so far, much funnier than I might have expected. Also I don't believe to have ever read a description of the English landscape which so perfectly captures what makes it so beautiful.

If Burke is the father of modern conservatism, I understand why conservatives are so badly read when their foundational text is this tedious.

Imagine sending your friend a 300 page letter about politics...

I think this is the first history book I've picked up where it does feel like it's aimed at Gen Z

Maybe I have chosen to do something worthwhile with my life by dedicating it to the study of history.

I only threw this party 4 u, I only threw this party 4 u, 4 u, it's true.

This book is even getting me to practice my Spanish.

Not really jiving with this book.

McCarthy might have the most unconventional but brilliant way of describing things. Just gorgeous prose.

This book feels filthy and disgusting, and quite frankly that's impressive. Very compelling so far.

I suspect Austen must've had some terrible experiences with vicars.

Mrs. Elton might be the most potently annoying yet real character I have come across. "Upon my word, hahaha, Maple Grove, hahahaha, Jane Fairfax blablabla"

A character so insipid one wishes the French had landed in Britain if only to interrupt her endless waffling with an artillery barrage on Highbury's vicarage. One hopes Emma marries Mr. Churchill, so that she can escape Mrs. Elton at his Yorkshire estate.