This is ostensibly a Western. I, ostensibly, do not like Westerns. I've never made it through any western film unless you count Native American stories, and I don't. I'll grant you that it's set in the Southwest. But this is no normal Western. While reading it, it actually feels like a saga, the wor...
I am not what you would call the average Cormac McCarthy reader. Yes, I may fit the stereotype—white male with a beard in his thirties—but I defy most stereotypes and hope that someday I may be the poster child for “stereotypes be damned.” (It seems out of place to use quotes in a review of a McCart...
bookshelves: autumn-2014, published-1992, western, series, drilling-mining-digging, filthy-lucre, fraudio, gambling, mexico, lit-richer, period-piece, recreational-homicide, adventure, ouch Read from October 03 to 06, 2014 Narrated by Frank MullerDescription: In the spring of 1948 on a small T...
Unlike almost every other human being on the planet, I don't like chocolate. No, I'm not allergic to it. I just don't like it. Unless you put it with peanut butter, in which case it is God's Own Gift and keep well away from my stash. http://expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2014/07/book-day-7-chocolate...
After I read McCarthy's Blood Meridian, I swore never to read another McCarthy book again. Then I saw No Country for Old Men and thought, I'll read that book. I liked the movie better - the cinematography was great - and once again I swore off McCarthy books. Then there I was, and All the Pretty Hor...
This is the fourth book that I have read by Cormac McCarthy and while it is good, it isn't nearly as good as the other three. It is about a 16 year old boy that travels down to Mexico for no real reason and meets two other boys along the way.Like all McCarthy novels it is about good and evil and ha...
Sixteen year old John Grady decides to leave his home in Texas and go to Mexico. He leaves with his friend Lacey Rawlins. As they travel and collect a third person, Jimmy Blevins, they find that the world gives more downs than up on the rollercoaster of life. I had not read any of Cormac McCarth...
Set in 1949-1950, this work opens with the death of 16-year-old John Grady Cole’s grandfather and the news that the family ranch will be sold. John Grady Cole was raised on the ranch and has virtually no relationship with either his mother or his father. When he learns he cannot save the family ...
Set in the 1949, the novel revolves around 16-year old Texan John Grady Cole. McCarthy is among the most unreadable authors I've ever encountered. If all McCarthy's books are like this, tell me so I can stay away from them. We're talking about the kind of author that dumps the grammar book into th...
This western of new antiquity flows with a horse's grace and bursts into charges of furious power. McCarthy's pen grazes upon lush words. His verbs gallop, his adjectives whinny and snort. There is a subdued, wild loneliness. The populous within the pages wander like herds or rally in a tense, motio...
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