Jonathan’s Reviews > Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West > Status Update

The second thing about the meteorite that made me laugh was that I actually was trying to figure out what McCarthy meant by “meteorite”. Because, yknow, everything is a metaphor with him. But no, turns out for once that this spade was just a spade.

This is a one-star book.

Another thing that just happened: there was some large meteorite found. People placed bets on whether the judge could move it 10’. He did.

So… cool, that was something that happened. Like everything else, it merely happened. Like everything else, if this was cut from the manuscript, the book/story/plot would not change one iota.

There are entire chapters that you could skip without missing anything. You wouldn’t miss any plot. You’d just miss out on some more boring, senseless, predictable violence. So done with this book. But I’m gonna stick it out.

Sometimes the endless description makes me forget what’s actually happening.

Interminable description

I’m not finding this terribly interesting so far. Just a boy subjected to and inflicting violence. Is there a story here? A point? We just go from one situation to the next. Things just seem to happen.

Sometimes I wondered if he died at the end of each chapter but somehow, as if in an alternate universe, he continues on in the next chapter.