Is this normal or are my comprehension skills just poor? The first half of a book I’ll read 20 pages an hour and the second half I can get up to 40 per hour. Its the first book I’ve read by this author and it almost feels like I’m trying to decipher a different language. I have never been the best with comprehension and have ADHD so I have found myself re reading pages constantly.
I love Blood Meridian but it is hard to read. I read it in a graduate literature class and we were going through it sentence by sentence. I think it’s actually McCarthy’s most difficult book (I haven’t read his final two books, just everything up to The Road).