That's sort of the problem with McCarthy, he's a brilliant writer, but disturbing. I've recently been trying to work my way through Blood Meridian but am finding it too disturbing in spots to really devour. However, many people consider this to be his best work. Even Harold Bloom (probably the most whitebread, privileged, misogynistic, old guard literary critic that anybody bothers lending an ear to) considers it to be America's highest literary achievement of the last 50 years. But it sure is brutal.