Leandro’s Reviews > Blood Meridian > Status Update

This book has taken way too long to get good, but here we are, this is actually riveting now.

I really loved The Road, I really loved No Country for Old Men, but this book is just testing my patience. No apparent thread holding the plot together, just a band of mercenaries going from town to town slaughtering Mexicans and Native Americans alike. I really don't understand why this book is held up as McCarthy's great masterpiece. It seems quite evident that his later works show immense growth for his writing.

This book is even getting me to practice my Spanish.

McCarthy might have the most unconventional but brilliant way of describing things. Just gorgeous prose.

This book feels filthy and disgusting, and quite frankly that's impressive. Very compelling so far.