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The Crossing

Cormac McCarthy

4.15 AVERAGE

huttonivich's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional reflective slow-paced

praetorian333's review against another edition

4.5

challenging emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

zhengsterz's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional 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

Novel about Billy Parham and his 3 crossings into Mexico. First was to release a pregnant wolf back into the wild, failed to do so and had to end the wolf's life himself to save it from being tortured by Mexicans who confiscated it. Second was to retrieve his family's stolen horses with his brother after his parents were killed by robbers, failed to do so as he ends up in shootups and entanglements with Mexicans. Third was to find his brother who ran away with a girl they met on the second crossing, succeeded in finding his grave and obtaining his remains which he took back to America to be burried.

One of the saddest books I've read, especially that first crossing. His life is pure shit.

danelleeb's review against another edition

3.0

Good, but I didn't like it as much as the first book in the Border Trilogy - excessive meandering. I'm optimistic for the 3rd though - whenever I get around to it.

mikenyby's review against another edition

5.0

slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

I was repeatedly stunned by McCarthy's idiosyncratic and brilliant use of language to convey such starkly devastating messages. It's like a series of prose-form gut-punches.

"Austere, unmoving, implacable. Before just such a God."