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’m reading All The Pretty Horses and it’s tough, too. I’ve never heard of anyone saying Blood Meridian was easy
This is a moving passage, and pretty excellent, in my mind at least. Firstly, the two sentences at the beginning combining into one in the last sentence. Second, I imagine this is concerning death or possibly someone one mentally not being all there. A slow passage into madness or mental illness, possibly. Out of context, it could also be a response to some sort of intense trauma, like the loss of a child, and watching someone respond to that.
Interesting take but it’s none of those things.
It’s about a 16 year old kid who thinks he’s a cowboy so he moves to Mexico and ends up in prison where an assassination attempt is made on him. This is him waking up.