Instruct: Classify an Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: gore without redeeming qualities

The border trilogy books were excellent and very enjoyable.Blood Meridian however was a problem for me. This may be a true depiction of the times, but I can not understand why anyone would want to read this gore. Not much plot. I like a little gore when the plot substantiates it, but not this. This was not a balanced presentation.Mr. McCarthy, if your purpose was to convince me that the 1840's were bloody, you didn't need 353 pages to do it.I got half way through before I put it down....