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I don't know what /lit/ thinks of this book, but why do I keep seeing it on lists alongside Ulysses and Sound & Fury as one of the hardest books ever? i'm by no means a skilled reader but I'm about half way through and I think it reads very easy.
is it because it's boring? people die in literally every chapter and the dialogue is very quick and easy to follow. granted, the violence gets repetitive, but there's a ton of action.
is it because of the lack of proper punctuation and the way dialogue is just sort of thrown at you? I practically don't even notice it, whereas in books like Absalom, Absalom and The Portrait of a Young Man you go like 4 pages without a new paragraph
is it because of the spanish parts? I just read the Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which is rarely considered a hard book to read, and there were Spanish words and phrases literally on every page. I've figured out every spanish word through context clues and everything else is entry level "Mi casa" stuff
is it because of the long descriptions? because they are absolute cake compared to shit people read in high school like Nathaniel Hawthorne
I'm enjoying the book thus far though it's not perfect, but I haven't been stumped or confused like I have with plenty of other of the "hard" books. do any of you guys find it challenging?
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>>8216756
>why do I keep seeing it on lists alongside Ulysses and Sound & Fury as one of the hardest books ever?
You don't. You are making this up.
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It's hard in the sense that its awful prose is unpleasant to read.
Also >>8216781
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>>8216756
this is obvious bait.
also
>people die in literally every chapter and the dialogue is very quick and easy to follow. granted, the violence gets repetitive, but there's a ton of action
what.
the "gratuitous violence" is a meme.
it's actually pretty sparse
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>making threads about corncobby chronicles
tortillafaggots pls go
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>>8216810
Literally every chapter he describes someone's head being blown off or finding a kid's body with a buzzard poking out his organs. I get that people don't like the book but you cant say it's not filled with gore
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>>8216781
>>8216797
http://flavorwire.com/423424/50-incredibly-tough-books-for-extreme-readers/view-all/
https://www.buzzfeed.com/louispeitzman/the-25-most-challenging-books-you-will-ever-read
I know buzzfeed isn't a prominent literary community, but this is the shit I see on my facebook feed and I wonder how anyone who's read all of those books can consider Blood Meridian in the same league.
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>>8216756
Ye...?
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>>8217121
People who read Buzzfeed are retards though, McCarthy's a pretty easy read at least stylistically. It's not like Pynchon where he puts a modifier at the end of a clause, gives you a wordy description of something (and another in these parantheses with its own complex sentences) then picks up from the modifier at the end of the page then switches perspectives without any obvious delineation. I actually like Pynch's writing though, don't get me wrong. McCarthy's rigor lies solely in his vocabulary.
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>>8217179
yeah but am I naive for thinking the creators of those lists read everything on them? because they have all of the books that are actually considered challenging
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corncobtortillasyecarthy
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>>8216756
it's cause it's good like those books, not cause it's challenging like those books
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>>8217139
>"mayhap yon bandana be wound overtightly upon thy brow"
lel
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>>8216756
Why do people sperg about this book? Just move on.
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>>8217375
>Just ride on
Fixed that for ye.
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>>8217354
There's a fucking tortilla recipe in the thing too.
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>>8217338
They just skimmed the wikipedia articles.
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