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 McCarthy’...
McCarthy is unparallelled in his ability to paint a word picture and have it materialize in front of the readers eyes. He is also a master story teller. This being said, I still can't give this more than a 3. I do not speak Spanish and with a significant portion of the dialog in Spanish, this mad...
All the hallmarks of a great western novel. At turns, funny, exciting, sad, and thought-provoking. Imbued throughout with lush imagery. I only regret not getting to Cormac McCarthy earlier.
I tried to find the beauty in realism of this book and I've found it.It could be the western; it could be the love story, I choose to read it as das bildungsroman, it made more sense to me that way.Where is your country? he said.I dont know, said John Grady. I dont know where it is. I dont know what...
To be honest I am not a major fan of Cormac McCarthy. Now that my disclaimer is out of the way I'll explain why I read this anyway. Firstly because it is on the 1001 books to read list, secondly because it is loved by so many other readers and thirdly because I still have hope that there is a Cormac...
I agree with The Guardian's assessment that this is one of the greatest American novels - because it so accurately captures what American is. How it feels out there in the West. This is pure American existentialism, the kind of philosophy that most of our writers (even the best ones) never felt li...
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