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Creepy_Path_1618 t1_ja4wb5x wrote

The notion that you have to understand immediately what you are reading is nonsense. If you don't understand it don't let it hold you back. Great works of art should be enjoyed more than once. Great poetry can leave you confused on the first read but that should invite you to read it more and more. Great poetry sustains thousands of readings. Shakespeare's canon is absolutely endless. The more readings done the better you'll understand and that is fine. Blood Meridian will sustain me for the rest of my life. I will read it at least once a year and keep finding new things to take away from it. Now don't be discouraged and just read the book. Also stay off the internet because it sounds like you know too much about BM before diving into and there is an endless amount of spoilers here. I read it cold, I had no idea what I was in for. And honestly, all books and films, music and art, should be experienced cold.

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HARJAS200007 OP t1_ja50feh wrote

Damn thats really what I needed to hear, thank you bro. I haven't been cognitively challenged by a book in a long while. So reading BM of course what strikes me first is all it's various idiosyncrasies, more so than the other of Mccarthy's work like everything post no country for old men. Especially the vernacular as i said. The main reason I wanted to read this book besides being a fan of the author was because I was looking for a work that would heavily disturb me, and I heard the subject matter of this book along with the character of judge holden would do it, so naturally I was inclined. It's a sort of trait I have to hyper analyze every book I read or every film I watch while enjoying it, and the sort of barrier that prevents me from doing so with this work is what threw me off, it's been a long time since I've just tried to take something in for what it is without deep deliberation, which is something im going to have to relearn as I continue reading.

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