All the Pretty Horses
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The tale of John Grady Cole, who at 16 finds himself at the dying end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. He escapes to Mexico with friends, but what starts as a comic adventure, leads to a place where dreams are paid for in blood.Amazon.com Review
Part bildungsroman, part horse opera, part meditation on courage and loyalty, this perfectly crafted novel won the National Book Award in 1992. The plot is simple enough. John Grady Cole, a 16-year-ancient dispossessed Texan, crosses the Rio Grande into Mexico in 1949, accompanied by his pal Lacey Rawlins. The two precocious horsemen pick up a sidekick–a laughable but deadly marksman named Jimmy Blevins–encounter various adventures on their way south and finally arrive at a paradisiacal hacienda where Cole falls into an ill-fated romance. Readers familiar with McCarthy’s Faulknerian prose will find the writing more restrained than in Suttree and Blood Meridian. Newcomers will be mesmerized by the tragic tale of John Grady Cole’s coming of age.
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Ugggh! This has to be one of the worst books I’ve ever read in all my years of reading young adult literature! For one, what’s with McCarthy not putting in quotes?? I mean, I knows it’s a style and all, but I never really did know what was going on!! And the ANDS… uhh, I’ve never seen so many in ONE book! It was absolute craziness! I wouldn’t recommend this book to ANYONE!!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Frustrated authors take note, you can be published and you don’t even have to worry about small details such as punctuation, sentence clarity, tale, structure or grammar. Cormac McCarthy proves it eloquently with “All the Pretty Horses.” Had McCarthy ever bothered to revise this draft he might of had a tale, but he just cranked it out of his typewriter or computer place a stamp on it and shot it over to some publisher, who was either drunk or high or both, who thought “What the hell, let’s print a really dreadful tale and promote the hell out of it. I’m sure people will buy it, after all Americans don’t care about grammar anyway.”
I’m not going to dive into the plot of the tale- you can read it above. This book falls fleeting of one of the best in literature. How they compare this guy to Faulkner is beyond me, the comparrison is an insult to Faulkner and people who read books in all-purpose. Most fifth graders can write better, more enchanting naratives.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I was disappointed in the style of this book. I had just read “Water for Elephants” and was blown away. The reviews I read lead me to this leader and the above book. The tale line is excellent but he is slow to renovate it. I appreciate discriptive text but a paragraph (or more) it seems to descibbe a dry river bed is a bit much especially when there is one on every page. Alas the last 1/3 of the book will go unread. And I will search for the next W.F.E.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
I thought the book was rather hard to know and extremely slow-moving. The leader didn’t use quotation inscription when characters spoke, and he used Spanish in dialogue. I reflect that the book was disappointing.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
I’m not commenting on the book, because I place this book down after the first page. Why? It would be nice if I could read the book clearly. As in, bloody quotation inscription, commas, small details such as that. No, that wouldn’t be hip and cool, that would be conforming to this silly tradition of (can you judge it?) legible writing. Oy vey.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5