From my list on unconventional, stubborn, loyal characters with explorer’s hearts.
Why am I passionate about this?
I chose my favorite books, and through careful psyche analysis, I see a theme in them: stubborn characters who persevere through miserable elements. I cave, hike, kayak, motorcycle, etc. A lot of it is not comfortable. It
starts with having an explorer’s heart. It isn’t glamorous. It is 90%
talking yourself into the fact that you can do something you at first
don’t believe you can do. The similar-minded friends that one finds
along the way are lifelong, and there’s a bond that forms from crazy
people like this. That comes through in my writing – companionship against a backdrop of stubborn exploration in an indifferent
environment.
Tina's book list on unconventional, stubborn, loyal characters with explorer’s hearts
Why did Tina love this book?
I reread this book every year and find something new in it each time. How can three sentences fully describe the desperation of five years? How many times can one give a description of the setting sun, and each time, is it more brutal than the last?
His work, for me, is the pinnacle of writing. He inspired me to write because it didn’t matter if I sucked. Perfection had been achieved; I might as well throw some demons at a blank page.
I once tried to listen to all of his books back to back and put myself in a depression. His characters are doomed, and you are forced to watch them waltz across the blood-soaked desert in a fight to the death.
13 authors picked Blood Meridian as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennessean who stumbles into a nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.