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101 reviews
Cormac McCarthy

Vintage International, 1999

masterpiece of the west...
be sure to read ALL THE PRETTY HORSES and THE CROSSING before jumping into the third of this trilogy by Cormac McCarthy..it brings you John Grady Cole from PRETTY HORSES and Billy Parham from THE CROSSING..working as ranch hands in New Mexico..their life consists of trail drives, horse auctions and stories by the campfire...their lives change forever when John falls in love with a Mexican ...

Child of God

51 reviews
Cormac McCarthy

Vintage, 1993

A dark, bitter tale of good and evil
Saying that "Child of God" is about good and evil may sound a bit pretentious. Indeed, this tale of Lester Ballard, an outcast from society, doesn't seem too high-handed at first. It initially comes off as a gritty, honest portrayal of a man driven to murder and necrophilia. It's a bit hard to read, both due to imagery and language; readers will wince at the horrible scenes as much as the ...

The Road (Oprah's Book Club)

1391 reviews
Cormac McCarthy

Vintage Books, 2007

Misunderstood by detractors, a clearly brilliant literary work
The handful of one-star reviews seemed to miss the point. The repetitive plot points and desolate wasteland illustrated optimism and the endearing force of human love, not a depressing world where man is monster. Actually, Cormac dances the line between both views, and it's not a new theme: humanity is both godly and demonic, both divine and absurd. This desolate landscape is utterly beautiful in ...

Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West

286 reviews
Cormac McCarthy

Vintage, 1992

A terrific book, with qualifiers
OK, this is the third Cormac McCarthy book I've read in a row, following 'The Road' and 'No Country for Old Men'. Each is alike in some ways yet different in many. All are written, quite obviously, by the same author. I say obviously for the two reasons of his name is on each and his stamp, his method of writing is in each. To talk about McCarthy's books is to talk about his style along with the ...

Suttree

51 reviews
Cormac Mccarthy

Vintage, 1992

The Shoes of the Fisherman
Set in 1950's Tennessee, McCarthy reprises an appearance by one of the original disciples as he tends to his flock of the poor, the humble and the n'eer-do-wells residing in the underbelly of Knoxville. Fisher of catfish and men and utterly,fallibly human, Suttree surpasses the limits of humanity (in stark contrast to the violent,vile and obscene setting of the novel) in his limitless concern for ...

Outer Dark

27 reviews
Cormac Mccarthy

Vintage, 1993

A gripping, taught, harrowing read
A sister gives birth to her brother's child. The brother takes the infant into the woods, where it is found by a travelling salesman. When the girl finds out about her brother's deception, she heads out to find the salesman, as her brother heads out to find her. All the while, they are pursued by three murderous, mysterious strangers, hellbent on an agenda all their own. There's a lot in ...

All the Pretty Horses

289 reviews
Cormac Mccarthy

Vintage, 1993

Life, death, love, horses and hand rolled cigarettes
I can't believe I've waited this long to get into Cormac McCarthy. We Texans have always known him to be one of the great Texas western writers, right up there with Larry McMurtry, earning a place in our hearts. But Cormac is bigger than that. Bigger than Texas, you say? His craft has been compared to Faulkner and Conrad. We're talking about literature here. After I saw the movie, "No ...

The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, the Crossing, Cities of the Plain (Everyman's Library)

38 reviews
Cormac Mccarthy

Everyman's Library, 1999

Perfect presentation of a perfect story
Just one example of the prose which has prompted me to read this three times: PAGE 141 OF "ALL THE PRETTY HORSES" (punctuation is as the author intended) "...They'd ride at night up along the western mesa two hours from the ranch and sometimes he'd build a fire and they could see the gaslights at the hacienda gates far below them floating in a pool of black and sometimes the lights seemed ...

No Country for Old Men (Vintage International)

389 reviews
Cormac McCarthy

Vintage, 2007

"I got here the same way the coin did."
Not a fan of Cormac McCarthy as a rule of thumb (his writing style is awkward, self conscious, and distracting), I would nonetheless be hard put to deny the man some credit for this suckerpunch of a novel. "No Country For Old Men" is an indictment of the quickly distintegrating American landscape and the disdain that culture has for age old values that involve the restraint of instincts--the ...

The Crossing

78 reviews
Cormac Mccarthy

Vintage, 1995

A Haunting and Beautiful Book
I'm really not sure how to describe this book, or that it is necessary to do so. It is an adventure story that has many different sections which, in ways, don't even seem to fit together. Certainly, it is mainly about two brothers and their journey into Mexico to retrieve horses stolen from their father's ranch. There is nothing predictable about what happens and some of it is even confusing. Yet ...

The Gardener's Son

4 reviews
Cormac Mccarthy

The Ecco Press, 1996

melancholy
I agree that Cormac McCarthy is America's greatest living author. I have now read all of his works, The Gardener's Son being the last one read. It didn't disappoint me either as none of his books have. He is truely a literary genius and I would love to know him personally.

The Stonemason: A Play in Five Acts

2 reviews
Cormac Mccarthy

Vintage, 1995

Thank God for Cormac McCarthy
I don't usually read plays, but I bought this one because, after finishing _Cities of the Plain_, I had read all of Cormac McCarthy's novels and was hungry for more. I was not disappointed. McCarthy's genius is no less evident in _The Stonemason_ than in any of his longer works; if anything, the shorter format of drama allows him to pack even more of his brilliant writing into every page. Many ...

The Cormac McCarthy Value Collection: All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain

2 reviews
Cormac Mccarthy

Random House Audio, 2005

excellent abridged version of McCarthy's work
Cormac McCarthy is undoubtedly one of the best American writers alive today. This is precisely why I purchased one of his works for my first venture into the "books on tape" world. I feared that hearing his works read to me my a Hollywood actor would diminish its impact, but I am happy to report that Brad Pitt does a good job of keeping the spirit and humor of his writing up to par. There are, ...

No Country For Old Men

6 reviews
Cormac McCarthy

Knopf, 2005

The book is better than the movie
I saw the movie, which was of course superb, and garnered several Oscars. In researching the movie,I found that it stemmed originaly from a book by Cormac McCarthy. Sadly, I'd never heard of McCarthy. Reading his biography I discovered that he was the recipient of the MacArthur Genius Award and the Pulitzer and is considered by many to be one of today's greatest living writers. So I picked up ...

Blood Meridian (Picador Books)

1 review
Cormac McCarthy

Picador, 1994

A Cormac McCarthy vocabulary quiz
As I read Blood Meridian, I jotted down words that were either unusual or new to me or familiar yet not quite recognizable. This is the case with every McCarthy book one reads - astonishment at the writer's extensive vocabulary. I've deliberately left out most of the directly Spanish terms or Mexican off-shoots. So, anyway, here is one list of words you need to know in order to read Blood ...

CARRETERA, LA (Literatura Mondadori)
Cormac Mccarthy

Random House Mondadori, 2007

The Orchard Keeper

13 reviews
Cormac McCarthy

Vintage, 1993

Early McCarthy
I am informally studying Cormac having read his last works first, namely "No Place for Old Men", preceeded by the "Trilogy" and "Blood Meridian". His precise knowledge about the area and customs of his story and the minimilist language which he develops in the later novels is interesting to watch grow.

The Sunset Limited

15 reviews
Cormac McCarthy

Vintage, 2006

pseudoprofundity?
it's amazing that a person would complain about mccarthy's work written in dramatic form as the sunset limited is. to even say that the mind conjures imagery of a third person who is dawkins, sitting at the table, "...who would mop the floor with these two sorry saps," is completely missing the point as the reviewer who gave this play 2 stars did. two sorry saps? unfortunately the way most of ...

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