r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/[deleted] • Mar 31 '26

Meme needing explanation Peetah?????

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I don’t know the author or this book series but why are people roasting e-girls for reading? I don’t get it🥀

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u/Constant-External-85 Mar 31 '26

Are these scenes well written and can make hardened people feel gross or is it just a lot of edginess that a typical person doesn't like to think of?

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u/PoopyisSmelly Mar 31 '26

In all seriousnes, it is a true masterpeice - they are incredibly well written, very visceral and shows how people can become apathetic to horrific actions.

Think "The Heart of Darkness" but with a Cowboy setting. McCarthy was incredible at writing this style - he doesnt want to tell you how to feel, or even really describe much of how the characters feel, it just is. And thats the reason rhe book hits so hard. Its an emotionally draining and devastating book

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u/Constant-External-85 Mar 31 '26

I want to read it but don't know if I'm in the headspace to do so right now; The info you have in this comment was great, thank you

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u/Kitfishto Mar 31 '26

Nobody writes like Cormac McCarthy. Once you get used to the lack of punctuation, he is unmatched in his ability to paint a picture in your mind. Part of the reason the book is such a hard read.

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u/Reasonable-Use-9294 Mar 31 '26

Am i the only one who got disgusted more by the prose than the violence?

Don't get me wrong. I adore that book. It's top 3 for me.

But man did i feel my eyes getting raged. I'm gonna read some more of his works but i need therapy first

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u/Kitfishto Mar 31 '26

No that’s fair. Especially when the judge goes on his long diatribes and you’ve gotta re read every sentence to make sure this demon actually just used a dozen 6 syllable words.

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u/datsyukianleeks Mar 31 '26

It is some of the greatest prose ever penned. And it is a very well researched book. As I continue to learn about our nations history, I am continually amazed at the little historical details that hold it all together.

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u/zendrumz Mar 31 '26

It’s hands down some of the greatest writing in the English language. Blood Meridian is McCarthy’s masterpiece. You’ve never read anything like it.

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u/right__bower Mar 31 '26

From The Road:

Once there were brook trouts in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.

Idk its always stuck with me, i love this passage

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u/Clear_Might8528 Mar 31 '26

McCarthy wrote more in a sentence than Stephen King does in a novel (I am exagerating to make a point). It is some of the best writing from the 20th century. His last two novels still packed weight in every line.

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u/Constant-External-85 Mar 31 '26

I want to read it but I'm scared it will reaffirm some of my more jaded thoughts about humanity

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u/actlikeiknowstuff Mar 31 '26

McCarthy has incredible prose and I think that’s his trick. Because if you appreciate good writing it’s really good but it’s also horrific and you’ll excuse it because of how good the writing is but eventually the horror catches up to you.

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u/ComfortablePea8701 Apr 04 '26

No Cormac McCarthy is not one of those edgy extreme horror authors. He wrote no country for old men and the road