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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
My book of the year. I loved this book. I enjoyed it so much that I didn`t see the movie. This is America`s top modern author, no question. He just gets better.He understands the human condition when set against a bleak or rugged backcloth, he writes so well.
Worst book ever What starts out a promising & exciting story, completely falls apart in the final few chapters. I was so disappointed with this that I threw it in the bin when I finished it (and I have been collecting books all my life). Avoid
Very confusing I'm sure this is an exciting novel if you can cope with the style, but I found it very confusing. McCarthy shares a characterstic with Gerald Seymour in that he will write several paragraphs or even pages without saying whom he is writing about (ie he uses personal pronouns rather than names). For me, Seymour gets away with it - just - but in this book it simply serves to complicate a plot which is quite complicated enough. I found this disappointing, because I think that otherwise I might well have enjoyed... more info
Awesome It has been years since I read a Cormac McCarthy and I had forgotten just what a fantastic writer he is, one of the best living American writers for sure and deserved of all the praise heaped on him. A slimmer book than many of his others, and difficult to read without having the film in mind (which is quite faithful to this), but there are one or two scenes that are crucial to the themes of the novel that you wonder why they never made it into the movie. The narrative voices are superb. And the... more info
