Just started "Blood Meridian" last night as I like McCarthy and haven't read this one, arguably his best. I like the style quite a bit so far (about 40 pages in) and the story is surprisingly good for how "briefly told" it is.
I'm at p. 186 and finding this a bit of a slog. Just relentlessly violent to the point of repetitiveness. Although I admit that I haven't been reading as closely as I should and may be missing a lot.
I only made it through 100 pages and stopped. I know it is a classic, I just didn't like it.
So I finished
Blood Meridian but I also didn't like it. I won't go into my criticisms other than to say that I felt that it was a lot like
The Road (which I loved), except that book resonated with me and
Blood Meridian did not. As I mentioned above, I did not read super closely (I mostly read it on the bus), so given it's modern classic status and the raves from folks here, I will most likely reread at some later juncture.I just started
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro and so far it's a welcome relief from the grueling experience of
Blood Meridian.