All the Pretty Horses

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Call Number: Fiction / McCarthy, Cormac, Adult Book / Fiction / General / McCarthy, Cormac
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Pittsfield Branch, Traverwood Branch

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Cut off from the life of ranching he has come to love by his grandfather's death, John Grady Cole flees to Mexico, where he and his two companions embark on a rugged and cruelly idyllic adventure.

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Great story, gorgeous imagery, deep characters. Won't read the author again. submitted by Susan4Pax -prev. sueij- on July 21, 2018, 4:07pm You know, I get it that different writers have different and unique writing styles. That’s fine. I don’t want everyone to have the same voice. But some choices are simply ridiculous, and in my view, McCarthy takes that route. With no quotation marks and a SERIOUS dearth of commas, it’s nearly impossible to track the content of the story.

Having said that, McCarthy tells a great story with gorgeous imagery and deep characters. There are many thought-provoking questions raised (though the romance didn’t do a thing for me) as two teenage boys cross into Mexico, pick up a stray, and deal with unexpected consequences. It’s a coming of age novel; it’s ‘how the world might try to kill you but you’ll learn something if you survive it’; it’s a stunning Western and I’m glad I read it but I’ll never read another Cormac McCarthy book again if I can help it.

Heh. How’s that for a review?

Great starting point for McCarthy submitted by foilista on July 11, 2023, 2:16pm Second time reading. This novel is eminently readable - really a melodrama - and zips along. It falls prey to McCarthy's typical masculinism (American teenager goes to Mexico and wows everyone with how good he is at breaking horses), but the writing is beautiful.