I started reading it and did enjoy it! But then i left it for a few days and now as im reading it im losing more and more interest and im only half way through? It’s been the same thing for so long… Does it change or is this his style or something? I read The Road by him and I see how they are similar in layout but Bloody Meridian is just missing something for me I think? Idk, anyone else had this?
Has anyone else left Blood Meridian by C.McCarthy as a ‘DNF’
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It's very very common for this book to take people multiple attempts. The author of the introduction in my copy states it took him three attempts (by the way, if anyone gets the 25th anniversary version with the intro, DON'T READ IT. Immediate and thorough spoilers)
Octavia Butler hated when intros/summaries spoiled stories so she did afterwards for each story in her short story collection Bloodchild. That way she didn’t spoil the story for the reader and she could discuss stuff about each story freely. Why isn’t this the industry norm??
Ask me if I’m still bitter about The Running Man being spoiled in the “Why I Wrote as Bachman” intro to… The Running Man 🤦♂️
Ooooo I didn't have a spoiled experience, but that absolutely must've sucked for you. I'd be so mad.
At first I thought “never read a spoiler in an intro, that’s insane, must not be important or all of the ending or something…”
Then at the end I was like “SONOFABITCH!” 🫠
It’s got spoilers for all the Bachman books in it basically. Should def be an afterword!
It's like when a friend introduced me to The Sixth Sense by saying>! "okay so it's about this guy who's dead, but he doesn't know he's dead yet..."!<