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Lit Grit

Charles McColl Portis 's True Grit is on my to-read list. (Excellent, excellent film by the Coen brothers.) As is, Blood Meridian and No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy.
I have resisted classic adventure stories for the longest time. Never wanted to read Journey to the Center of the Earth, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe and etc.. But I am currently reading Moby Dick by Herman Melville, and it is one of the best stories I have read in a long time. Every single character in the first 12 chapters has been so colorfully illustrated through Melville's words. I can picture everything. From the cow slipping on fish head on the beach to the boarding house lady demanding Queequeg's harpoon.

It's been so long since a book has been this exciting for me. I look forward to a year of exploring the masculine, the gritty and the adventurous in literature. From hunting whales to Westerns, I want to experience this same blood throbbing excitement this year in books.

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