I've been reading through Blood Meridian by Cormac Mccarthy. This book is not for the faint hearted and sensitive people. The violence is beyond anything I've read, nobody is safe, women, elderly, children, infants. And nearly all of the characters involved are terrible people, but not as terrifying and monstrous as Judge Holton. I had a nightmare about this character one night, that's how scary the Judge is.

The romanticised and popular ideas of the wild west we see in pop culture is falsified by how brutal, barbaric and evil the frontier really is in this book, and it's the kind of book I would have endless discussions with. Recommended to those with a heart of Iron.