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3.37 AVERAGE
3.37 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Swinging back to the beginning of his career with this one, I’ve now read every novel by Cormac McCarthy published to date (as of June, 2022). I’d compare it directly with early Nabokov: both are so overwhelmed by their love of the sensuality of the sensorium of the natural world, it saturates the text to the point that plot is nearly submerged. That’s fine by me, actually. Not a favorite of mine amongst his novels, but cool to see the love of describing nature on such explicit, positive display.
challenging
dark
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
I had to read it twice to understand the characters and the plot
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
dark
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Far and away my least favorite McCarthy book so far. Reminded me greatly of The Devil all the Time with its intertwining generational saga set in the rural South...a comparison I would not necessarily consider favorable.
Mostly I was struck by how dull I found the book. While McCarthy's prose is superb as always and both the characters of Sylder and Ather are fascinating the narrative is meandering and development so non-existent in the scant 240 pages that you finish the novel feeling largely unfulfilled.
Mostly I was struck by how dull I found the book. While McCarthy's prose is superb as always and both the characters of Sylder and Ather are fascinating the narrative is meandering and development so non-existent in the scant 240 pages that you finish the novel feeling largely unfulfilled.
challenging
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No