3.0

I still think the language employed in this book is masterful.

And yet, I couldn't help but feel let down.

This is my third time reading McCarthy's Blood Meridian, and it's my first time reading this book since I became a teacher.

When I was younger, I loved the isolation of this book. The each-in-it-for-his-ownness of it. Now, as a young adult partially responsible for the education, well-being, and future of 120 teenagers, I'd like to believe there's something in this mean and hungry country worth salvaging and passing on to a younger generation.

Maybe I'm getting sentimental in my old age....