A few months ago I watched this video and saw that Blood Meridian was his fourth favorite of all time. The book seemed really up my alley and I purchased it immediately…
Wow, this book feels like deciphering hieroglyphics.
The story itself is intriguing but I feel as though it’s hidden under layers and layers of dense verbiage that I can’t comprehend. I find myself reading a sentence, thinking that the subject is going in one direction, but then new verbiage is added and I’ve completely lost the direction of the passage. The book feels like a jigsaw puzzle with infinite pieces.
It’s definitely the least-direct book I’ve ever read.
I’ve gotten halfway through the book in the course of three months but I couldn’t honestly tell you where the characters are, their strengths and weaknesses, or any overall theme I’m getting. How do you understand this book?
I really didn’t like this book. I read The Road and loved it. Blood meridian is an awful book in my opinion. Zero punctuation, run on sentences that literally fill up a whole page, no idea who is talking in the book, zero character development, completely incoherent story, similes and metaphors that are HILARIOUSLY bad.
This book is a perfect example of group think. People are told it’s good and they read it and say YEA THIS BOOK IS AMAZING while ignoring the enormous glaring issues. When you have to re read a passage or page because you don’t know who is saying what, that means the author failed.