Blood Meridian

I read The Road by McCarthy and fell in love with it. Someone suggested Blood Meridian as my next read. However, I have lately been seeing a lot of interesting discourse that it is pretty brutal, and sort of a test of your manliness to be able to finish it?

That sort of thing doesn’t bother me, but what I want to know is: 1, is it true? Is it really that bad? and 2, is it *good*? I’m not here to read anything for performative purposes so let me know what you think!