Status Updates From Butcher's crossing

“But his own desire… was at once more intense and more vague. To what did he wish to return? From where did he wish to go?”

dude i am bored

I’m following “A Reader’s Guide from TikTok to Faulkner.” This is book #3 out of 14 books. It’s building up to read “As I lay Dying” by William Faulkner.

taking me ages to get through this and also making me dead thirsty

getting really good 👀

I’m loving this book so much

1/3 of the way through this book and I have no idea how readers missed this. Think, Faulkner, Steinbeck, McCarthy, McMurtry, on any other twentieth century master-writer you can think of and Williams is on par with them. I will die on this John Williams hill… already. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

francine :(

this book is written in the vernacular and tone of twin peaks' beloved major garland briggs

A slow, but compelling Western whose writing follows the pace of the adventure as if really lived.

kids these days! always running off to hunt buffalo!

Holy shit this shit gets even better
this is way better than stoner by john Williams

Holy shit, this is so good

Gonna make me play red dead ngl

You did WHAT with your cousin? Mr Andrews, do I know a beautiful land that you would love...

The devastation of the buffalo herds 😔😔😔

To Dom,
Thank you.
Best,
Florence.

hope this gets interesting soon

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OH MY GOD WHAT?! What an end to part 2! All of their work for nothing, and Schneider died in an instant, this is so sad

This first paragraph is just so good for Andrew’s character and just in trauma in general!

Okay so this chapter was 100% the best of this book yet! It’s such a good insight into the devolution of man in so many different shades! The PTSD and trauma of Charley Arising, the animal like beast Miller is becoming, the angry and insane growing Schneider, and Andrew’s who is losing all shape of himself that he once knew to be. This book is really coming together man!

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Few days break for busywork BUT back into this book and shit is getting real man! Millers Lust for the hunt has screwed over every single one of them and I’m horrified for how this is gonna go

Abandoned reading for a bit there. This is like the other POV of the Buffalo Hunter Hunter.

who is the butcher what is he crossing

No offense mais pour l’instant c’est un peu boring

I am loving this brutal and animalistic transformation that Andrew’s is witnessing take shape in Miller! Greed and wrath will cost them and get them stuck in winter ✌️

Wow just wow, that final paragraph before the end of this chapter was so beautiful. The connection Andrew made between Francine and the hanging buffalo, John Williams is genuinely such a master at writing within the emotional mind of his characters

MILLER COOKED! Incredibly sad thought of them ruining this beautifully untouched piece of nature that’s been hidden from the horrors of man