Reviews

Sunset Limited by Cormac McCarthy

greenblack's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

ezdubboizz's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

haslock's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

turt_le's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

couuboy's review against another edition

4.0

Waiting for Godot, My Dinner with Andre, The Sunset Limited: on the one hand this genre - if I could be so reductive - results in terrible pieces of art in terms of authorial sublimation and aesthetic intrigue. It’s easy to dismiss them as pretentious and uneventful.

And yet on the other hand when things works they deftly reveal both the magic and reward of art, how part of the joy comes from the audience being... caressed... to put effort in. When it isn’t just the passive following of a narrative but one is compelled to create and piece together a larger picture than the scene itself in one’s head while it happens alongside the page or screen.

Of the aforementioned three, I must confess that the sunset limited is probably the least effective, though the other two are veritable titans, so I suppose this isn’t much of a slight.

brendanhoffman's review against another edition

3.5

Cormac made this one for the real haters 🖤

kimberlymichelle's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

jcasey's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

shawdo's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Suicide, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Racial slurs

tarrowood's review against another edition

5.0

I wasn’t sure how I felt about this in the middle, but as I finished the drama (a quick one), I realized there is an ambiguity that allows for the reader to decide the fate of the two men having a conversation. There are always two paths to life: life and death. The sunset can either be limited and end a day, or become infinite and spawn a new day.