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Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy. As with some of his other work, the punctuation can be a challenge and the prose can sometimes border on the ponderous, but I'm enjoying it. Currently about half way through.


Listen to the audiobooks. They help distinguish which characters are speaking.


I have a Random House audiobook version of the trilogy read by Brad Pitt. His Spanish pronunciation isn't great (although better than mine) but I enjoy his quiet voice and slightly careworn delivery. It's abridged, though, and I wanted to read the whole work.

The Recorded Books recordings of The Road and No Country for Old Men narrated by Tom Stechschulte are very good too.


reading Blood Meridian now, honestly it just flows for me.

I grew up reading arabic and sentences are just feel longer so maybe thats why Im not struggling with it.




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