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adventurous challenging emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Man. Just one of those books that exceeded the hype. I feel like the story is just getting started for some of these characters. Gus maybe the best novel protagonist of all time

An adventure, yes. It is also a nearly peerless character study - unusually, of both the men and the women in the book - and an impressive evocation of a time and places that are both long gone and still present. A must read.

If I were to fault the book it would be only that some details laid out in the prequels don’t quite match up with this book, but I’m willing to overlook that.
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DID NOT FINISH

I wasn't in the mood for fiction. One day I may pick it up and try again.
adventurous challenging dark sad tense medium-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
adventurous funny 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: Yes
adventurous emotional reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
adventurous challenging emotional funny reflective sad tense medium-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

If Cormac McCarthy had humor, more words, punctuation, and slightly less graphic depictions of violence and sex. 

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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