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4.14 AVERAGE
4.14 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
“Men do not turn from God so easily. Not so easily. Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot e fled nor hid from. To imagine otherwise is to imagine the unspeakable. It was never that this man ceased to believe in God. No. It was rather that he came to believe terrible things of him.”
It is what I expected but not what I expected at all. His prose remains a revelation. Incredibly unique voice. I want to talk about this one, or at least read some analysis….
When faced with great cruelty who can retain their faith in a just god?
It is what I expected but not what I expected at all. His prose remains a revelation. Incredibly unique voice. I want to talk about this one, or at least read some analysis….
When faced with great cruelty who can retain their faith in a just god?
adventurous
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
dark
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Devastating and beautiful. I'm honestly not sure how I feel about this one. I think good, but I have no idea why.
challenging
dark
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
A masterpiece. I preferred this to All The Pretty Horses—it was much more philosophical in its approach.
The Crossing from boy to manhood was something I thought of throughout the novel. In Billy’s cyclical journeys I also found myself thinking of how he has this sort of Sisyphean approach to personal justice and it never pans out. Tragically, there is no justice in our world and Billy finds that out by the end of the book. He himself carries whatever justice there may be found in his saddlebag and can’t reach it when it is needed most in the second half of the story. He was luckier than all-get-out as they say.
The death of the wolf moved me to tears. Casual and even true evil exists in man and there are some who proclaim it does not. We are the animal that does not believe it is another animal from the dirt.
“He will not know that while the order which the righteous seek is never righteousness itself but is only order, the disorder of evil is in fact the thing itself. Nor will he know that while the righteous are hampered at every turn by their ignorance of evil to the evil all is plain, light and dark alike.
This man of which we speak will seek to impose order and lineage upon things which rightly have none."
The Crossing from boy to manhood was something I thought of throughout the novel. In Billy’s cyclical journeys I also found myself thinking of how he has this sort of Sisyphean approach to personal justice and it never pans out. Tragically, there is no justice in our world and Billy finds that out by the end of the book. He himself carries whatever justice there may be found in his saddlebag and can’t reach it when it is needed most in the second half of the story. He was luckier than all-get-out as they say.
The death of the wolf moved me to tears. Casual and even true evil exists in man and there are some who proclaim it does not. We are the animal that does not believe it is another animal from the dirt.
“He will not know that while the order which the righteous seek is never righteousness itself but is only order, the disorder of evil is in fact the thing itself. Nor will he know that while the righteous are hampered at every turn by their ignorance of evil to the evil all is plain, light and dark alike.
This man of which we speak will seek to impose order and lineage upon things which rightly have none."
Truly get wrenching yet meditative. If this doesn't leave you a wreck, nothing will.
I love how he uses parts with long philosophical stories from characters dialogue much like Dostoyevsky.
I love how he uses parts with long philosophical stories from characters dialogue much like Dostoyevsky.
“Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes.”
Innocence lost to the hunt, boy turned man through the crossing of the plains and years. Cormac at his most beautifully melancholic, the pages fly past as you are engrossed in the poetry of his brutal realism. The sections of violence is supplemented by passages of genuine beauty and goodness. A somber slice of heart and wonder, reminiscent of Steinbeck’s The Red Pony but for late-teens turning to adults rather than young boys becoming teens. After reading All The Pretty Horses I was worried about the rest of the trilogy not being able to stand up to it, but I am ecstatic to say I was wrong. This is just as good, which is saying a lot as All the Pretty Horses is potentially my favorite of his works.
“He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one and the same for it had but one reality and that was the living of it.”
Innocence lost to the hunt, boy turned man through the crossing of the plains and years. Cormac at his most beautifully melancholic, the pages fly past as you are engrossed in the poetry of his brutal realism. The sections of violence is supplemented by passages of genuine beauty and goodness. A somber slice of heart and wonder, reminiscent of Steinbeck’s The Red Pony but for late-teens turning to adults rather than young boys becoming teens. After reading All The Pretty Horses I was worried about the rest of the trilogy not being able to stand up to it, but I am ecstatic to say I was wrong. This is just as good, which is saying a lot as All the Pretty Horses is potentially my favorite of his works.
“He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one and the same for it had but one reality and that was the living of it.”
slow-paced