In American literature, there's McCarthy and there's everybody else. Seriously every single stark staccato line of this novel is beautiful in and of itself. He can describe fifty sunsets in the span of a hundred pages and you'd read every single one of them appreciatively and with new eyes. I think ...
I'm giving the 4 stars more for the narration, the story was too depressing and the way the 16 year old reacted and held himself, way too mature for 16 years. Maybe if this was set in the 1840s instead of the 1940s it would have been more believable that he was that mature. I love a sad story as w...
Not my favorite book, partly because the main character, cowboy John Grady Cole was so stoic, taciturn, and ... well cowboy-like, that I didn't feel any of the emotions that should have accompanied such a tragic story. The one thing I loved was the narrator, Frank Mueller - what a voice!
I read this book for a book club, so forced myself to keep reading - after all, the whole reason I joined a book club was to read books that I otherwise would not have read. When I finished, my only thought was "well, I finished." I thought this was one of the most tedious books I've ever read.
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