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		test1235 on Dec 24, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What's the best book you read in 2021? I absolutely loved The Road, but I couldn't finish Blood Meridian ... I had no interest in the setting or the characters at all.

beermonster on Dec 24, 2021 [–]

it's gruesome. I love westerns but in a way this is some kind of anti-western. Captivating however, in the same way 'Heart of Darkness' - Joseph Conrad , is.

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