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4.15 AVERAGE
4.15 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
emotional
slow-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
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
mysterious
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:
Yes
He said that journeys involving the company of the dead were notorious for their difficulty but that in truth every journey was so accompanied. He said that in his opinion it was imprudent to suppose that the dead have no power to act in the world, for their power is great and their influence often most weighty with just those who suspect it least. He said that what men do not understand is that what the dead have quit is itself no world but is also only the picture of the world in men's hearts. He said that the world cannot be quit for it is eternal in whatever form as are all things within it. In those faces that shall now be forever nameless among their outworn chattels there is writ a message that can never be spoken because time would always slay the messenger before he could ever arrive.
Days of mortality, each day a new world. An indifferent universe. Boundless opportunity to conjure more evil into the world. It is easy and common to do wrong. It is harder to do good. To watch those moments pass is to betray God and undermine/destroy any semblance of understanding you may have created for yourself to understand our purpose on earth. Do not let your heart rot despite the lack of answers or the absence of justice.
adventurous
dark
emotional
sad
slow-paced
This book! Wow! The more of Cormac McCarthy's works I read, the more I love him, and I already loved him a whole damn lot. Problem is only Cities of the Plain left and then I've read all of his novels :( Have to start them all over again then I guess. I think up to now my top 3 McCarthy list looks like this:
1. The Road
2. The Crossing
3. Suttree/All the Pretty Horses (Sorry can't choose)
Somehow after reading all his books Blood Meridian has slowly crept downwards, although I still see it as a work of pure genius.
Love McCarthy's philosophy entwined throughout his works. Love his beautifully constructed sentences. Love the way that I can envision everything that he describes so well.
1. The Road
2. The Crossing
3. Suttree/All the Pretty Horses (Sorry can't choose)
Somehow after reading all his books Blood Meridian has slowly crept downwards, although I still see it as a work of pure genius.
Love McCarthy's philosophy entwined throughout his works. Love his beautifully constructed sentences. Love the way that I can envision everything that he describes so well.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Loved the first part but each part worsened over time for me. There are some author philosophical inserts that do give the mind some pause to reflect, but they feel heavy-handed. I thought book 1 was more balanced and the amount of Spanish text in book 2 took me out of the story quite often (I understood about 60-70% of the Spanish).
dark
emotional
sad
slow-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
A bleak coming-of-age novel, beautifully written and quite tragic. The huge expectations of it after finishing All the Pretty Horses were not quite lived up to, but it would have been an impossible task to best the first book in the trilogy. The novel's central theme of futility reflects the task McCarthy set himself?
A lot darker than the first book in the series; there is a lot of complexity here that is much more in tune with what I expected from the author. The characters are well developed and they show a range of emotions that really creates a stark story. It also has different levels of writing and acceptance of literate people in an era or environment where you don't expect it.
adventurous
challenging
dark
sad
slow-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:
No
I had an up and down experience with this. I just had trouble catching a rhythm while reading it. Some parts, I really enjoyed and others, I just wanted to get through.