I don't understand how the hell to read blood meridian

I've reached page 90 and every time I complete a chapter I have to look up a simple summary of it to understand what's goingon. There's no ". " When someone talks and sonetimes the words are endless and their meanings exactly devoid of their quantitys numbers , no meanings in simpler terms . How am I to finish this? How did u guys read it? Also I'm not stupid or anything , I score rlly good in English I'm 17 and have an above avg iq