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Showing posts with label Cormac McCarthy. Show all posts
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After being completely blown away by The Road, I decided that I should add another Cormac McCarthy title to my reading list. So several weeks ago, while perusing row upon row of books at Borders, I picked out a copy of No Country For Old Men. This should be good, I thought. And it was.
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No Country For Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
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All the Pretty Horses recounts the story of young John Grady Cole, the last in a long line of Texas ranchers. Dispossessed and in search of work, he crosses the Rio Grande into Mexico in 1949, accompanied by his pal Lacey Rawlins. The two wanderers pick up 14-year-old Jimmy Blevins, a comical but deadly sharpshooter, and encounter various adventures on their way south… where dreams are paid for in blood.
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All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy
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Reading The Road was one of the most disturbing, haunting, and profoundly moving experiences I have ever had. It was like taking a literary punch to the gut; a punch so hard it was nauseating. As another reviewer aptly said, “There is an urgency to each page, and a raw emotional pull… making it easily one of the most harrowing books you’ll ever encounter… Once opened, [it is] nearly impossible to put down; it is as if you must keep reading in order for the characters to stay alive…”
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The Road - Cormac McCarthy
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Reading The Road was one of the most disturbing, haunting, and profoundly moving experiences I have ever had. It was like taking a literary punch to the gut; a punch so hard it was nauseating. As another reviewer aptly said, “There is an urgency to each page, and a raw emotional pull… making it easily one of the most harrowing books you’ll ever encounter… Once opened, [it is] nearly impossible to put down; it is as if you must keep reading in order for the characters to stay alive…”Keep Reading »
