I will say that ATPH was my second ever McCarthy novel, having read The Road previously which I didn’t have too much difficulty with.
But with both the first two books in the Border trilogy, I had quite a bit of trouble understanding what was going on and all times. I had the translations of the Spanish ready to help as well.
I actually found Cities of the Plain much easier and therefore my favourite of the trilogy.
Now I am onto Blood Meridian and considering what I had seen online regarding this novel, I am finding it much easier to follow, understand, as well as kind of keeping immersed in with the book and its plot. Is this quite an unusual thing, have I completely been dumb with the Border books?
by iTsB-Raid
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Idk but I’m here to throw in my two-cents: I’ve read a few books by Cormac McCarthy, and honestly I was vastly disappointed with Blood Meridian. It was not the traumatizing, bloody, terrible journey I was told it was going to be. Rather anticlimactic, and the themes and allegory are beaten harder than the many dead horses along the Judge’s path. I love The Road and No Country for Old Men, even All the Pretty Horses was fun, but this one? Meh.