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raindye 's review for:
The Crossing
by Cormac McCarthy
4.5 rounded up. This book stands on its own, and I will review it without comparing it to All the Pretty Horses.
I love westerns, and I love the concept of a western about a young man who lives a cowboy life after all the cowboys have gone.
The first crossing left me sobbing at work on my lunch break. I'd say the book is about loss, and Billy loses the whole way through. It's the moments where he tries to hold on that really impacted me.
Between the first section and the events that happen at the end there's an awful lot of philosophizing which is what McCarthy often does, I guess. The whole book felt like a sequence of events, and I didn't care and will probably forget about many of the events in the middle.
But I think I will always remember the whole first crossing and the end of the book.
I love westerns, and I love the concept of a western about a young man who lives a cowboy life after all the cowboys have gone.
The first crossing left me sobbing at work on my lunch break. I'd say the book is about loss, and Billy loses the whole way through. It's the moments where he tries to hold on that really impacted me.
Between the first section and the events that happen at the end there's an awful lot of philosophizing which is what McCarthy often does, I guess. The whole book felt like a sequence of events, and I didn't care and will probably forget about many of the events in the middle.
But I think I will always remember the whole first crossing and the end of the book.