
Elwood Melbourne
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I read the first hundred pages of The Road last year, and read the first hundred pages of Blood Meridian this year, and in both instances, gave up, because the books never clicked. Lyrical writing, but the characters are reduced to way down Maslow's hierarchy, and the tone is so relentlessly bleak, with almost no humanity breaking through, it was difficult to feel anything besides the flint clicking against the cold steel in the overwhelming darkness. I know many of you love it, but to me, it's overwrought, overstylized, and overhyped.



>Quit a successful law career to pursue his passion >Taught millions of young men how to survive in the wild >Became one of the biggest youtubers >Bakes fresh bread with honey butter in the middle of the wilderness >Faithful to his wife >Spends his days teaching his kids valuable survival and life skills >Achieved the ultimate dream of getting paid to be a great dad >Quit when he started to get too famous to focus on his family and Church Luke won. Be like Luke.









