I finished "Blood Meridian" a few weeks ago, also based on the recommendations people here have had for McCarthy. Once I got into the flow of it--which was a much different flow than that for "No Country", which I read before the film came out--it struck me how much command he has with the English language. He created a poetry out of the violence in the story, and even though (for me anyway) there were no real protagonists, I was connected with a number of the characters.

Maybe just me, but "Blood Meridian" evoked a lot of Homer's "Odyssey" while I was reading it. Not as much as watching "O Brother Where Art Thou", but it was still there.