This book enjoys an incredible reputation, but I found it a slog of pure drudgery. The long prose passages that are hailed again and again by critics as remarkably beautiful, to me were ugly and boring. The entire book was a gigantic bore to me, but I finished it dutifully. I was never so glad to turn the last page of any book. The first duty of any author is to keep a reader's interest. McCarthy could not keep mine. I would rather read Moby Dick backwards than slog through Blood Meridian again. I can honestly say I hated the book and will never read anything by McCarthy again.