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The Crossing

Cormac McCarthy

4.15 AVERAGE

lankylad9's review against another edition

3.0

It’s amazing how many philosophers Billy managed to find in rural Mexico in the early twentieth century!

maarrrr17's review against another edition

4.5

challenging emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

hennershenners's review against another edition

4.0

My favourite McCarthy is part one of the Crossing - which could have, (maybe should have?) functioned as a stand alone novella; The Boy and the Wolf, or Billy and the Wolf, or.....
It's so good you'll have to read it thrice!
Thanks too to Richard Poe for the tingle inducing narration.

tamcymru's review against another edition

2.0

Found this a struggle! Not much happens after the first third, except for endless digression and descriptive prose. A lot of the conversations are in untranslated Spanish, most of which I could follow but would be hard for someone with no Spanish.

jrhub3550's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

benzos_downer's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

owlishone's review against another edition

5.0

I don’t know that I’ve ever read anything else quite so sad. This novel is divided into four sections, and at the end of the first section McCarthy presents childlessness, reproductive trauma, and loss in an incredibly powerful way. He just nails it. I will say no more because I don’t want to spoil the book for anyone. But if you’re interested in exploring grief—and in particular the variety of grief produced by disruption of natural reproductive cycles, with all this entails for consequently nonexistent futures—section one of The Crossing is for you.