/lit/ - Literature

Blood Meridian was the first McCarthy book I read back in Sophmore year of highschool. It was pretty good.

>stretches sentences to the length of a paragraph
>said sentence will blend visual description, dialogue, and allegory, so I have to re-read it a few times just to get a scrap of narrative context
>spanish language I can sometimes barely read littered throughout the text (is any of it important?)
>dialogue is the only thing that gives the pages visual structure but it's never certain who the speaker is half the time

Am I retarded or am I supposed to parse out every word on the page twice to understand half of what's going on? It feels like McCarthy used a speech-to-text to write this and I'm having serious trouble navigating this novel. Any advice from /lit/ on this writing style? I want to enjoy this book but I fear I may be too retarded.