
On abandoning Blood Meridian
by Diane Becker
Have abandoned Blood Meridian on p285 of 353 – a pretty hefty investment of time in any book. So why have I stopped with only 60 pages to go? It is relentlessly bleak*. No, not like The Road. In The Road we get to travel with the kid and his dad, and yes it’s all a bit bleak and post-apocalyptic but, but … nothing really bad ever happens. Blood Meridian? Rewind 150 years, flip to the other side of The […]
Categories: Fiction, What I'm reading • Tags: Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy, Fiction, Thoughts