Cormac McCarthy's Child of God is the kind of novel you find yourself in such a death grip with when you read it due to its immersive qualities and breezy writing that you will take the entire novel in with a very limited amount of sittings, but with weeks in between due to needing a bit of a breather. It is a bizarrely cozy experience with an extremely morbid and horrific story to tell, and although it never really does anything mindblowing, it is utterly fantastic. Brisk and fully envisioned, think of this as a very tight 90 minute movie which is directed to perfection. A decent place to start with Cormac.