It comes up all the time, and probably still a lot of high schools and stuff include it in their curriculum. If you’re a Vonnegut fan I think it’s 50/50 whether this is your favorite book of his.

It’s Anti-Camelot for the American West. McCarthy is writing a mythological narrative in Blood Meridian, so the prose and the scope are unique and epic to match the themes.

Yes it’s a very tough read. So are the Viking Eddas, original Beowulf, the Odyssey, etc. Blood Meridian wants to be in that club.