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mishasw 's review for:
Stella Maris
by Cormac McCarthy
Wow. I'm absolutely stunned, and also very sad upon the completion of Stella Maris. You can palpably feel McCarthy approaching his own end as Alicia approaches hers. The desperation and pain and fear as it all closes in. That this is the last McCarthy book there will ever be is so painful and sad, and that this is the perhaps the most vulnerable and personal of them all makes for an immense experience. It's interesting that this is all dialogue, and the protagonist is a woman; two very un McCarthy things.
All in all, I've loved McCarthy over the years, and that at the very end, that he was able to reinvent his style with the Passenger and Stella Maris is incredible. These two books complement themselves so beautifully, and are full of ravings about math and philosophy and yet at the end, what means the most to Alicia?Love, and Bobby.
Reading to me is about as close to the spiritual or religious that I can get right now, and while most books fall short of the form, reading is about discovering the books that don't, like Stella Maris and the Passenger. Because of this, in many ways, I am unwilling to recommend, or discuss, or analyze books like this. Ultimately they just are and I adore them for it. I do not desire your opinions about such books unless they are likewise adulation.
Sigh, the end of McCarthy, and the end of Alicia.
All in all, I've loved McCarthy over the years, and that at the very end, that he was able to reinvent his style with the Passenger and Stella Maris is incredible. These two books complement themselves so beautifully, and are full of ravings about math and philosophy and yet at the end, what means the most to Alicia?
Reading to me is about as close to the spiritual or religious that I can get right now, and while most books fall short of the form, reading is about discovering the books that don't, like Stella Maris and the Passenger. Because of this, in many ways, I am unwilling to recommend, or discuss, or analyze books like this. Ultimately they just are and I adore them for it. I do not desire your opinions about such books unless they are likewise adulation.
Sigh, the end of McCarthy, and the end of Alicia.