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I started reading The Road soon after I picked it up at Fountain Bookstore while waiting for some cousins to arrive for dinner at a local restaurant, and I really had a hard time putting it down. Cormac McCarthy has a real skill at describing nature, especially desolate nature. And so this book, which is set in the US after some horrible armageddon, an apocalypse, is full of rich, but bleak, details on what . . . → Read More: Review: The Road, by Cormac McCarthy 
All the Pretty Horses is the second book by Cormac McCarthy book I’ve read, and this author’s prose is like poetry. He really has a way with describing scenes of the countryside, the love of horses, and the tragedy of a man’s destiny within a blind, or indifferent, universe. The story focuses on the young John Grady Cole, who sets off on an adventure, on horseback, into Mexico with his childhood friend . . . → Read More: Review: All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy 
Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West, by Cormac McCarthy, is worth your time, but is probably not a book for the faint of heart. I really enjoyed the story, though I have to feel a little guilty for saying so. The scenery itself is like another of the characters, and all characters are harsh, brutal, and real. The pace of the narration does not drag, and though you try not . . . → Read More: Review: Blood Meridian, by Cormac McCarthy |
 
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