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Title: All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy, Brad Pitt ISBN: 0-375-41587-4 Publisher: Bantam Books-Audio Pub. Date: 26 September, 2000 Format: Audio CD Volumes: 3 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.08 (215 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A boy coming of age
Comment: There is probably a little of John Grady Cole in all of us. At 16, Cole sets out to define the world for himself. With buddy Lacey Rawlins, the pair leave Texas on horseback for Mexico and new adventure. Cole has the desire many have to have been born in an earlier, simpler time. He and his traveling companion quickly find themselves in situations that today's young man couldn't handle and he winds up fighting for his life while, both physically and emotionally. His fight is to stay alive and return to his new love.
McCarthy's writing has the ability to make you feel you are listening to John Grady Cole tell his story. McCarthy's decision to use the uneducated grammar patterns of a youngster from West Texas and his ability to describe both feelings and impressions leave you seeing the trails Cole rides and imaging the people he is fighting for and against.
McCarthy's writing style and the story itself makes it easy to understand why this book won national awards. It's easier still to understand why everyone will enjoy reading this great story of a young man growing up painfully hard and fast.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Great, Romantic, Suspensful Novel
Comment: I loved this book. The novel is about a young man and his friend who set out across the border of Texas and Mexico to become horse wranglers. However, their ideas of life in Mexico are abruptly changed through the happenings of romance, danger, and suspense. McCarthy has a great writing style that grips you into the novel. Through his dramatic descriptions of the Texas and Mexico ranch and trail life and his elaborate discussions of honor and reason, 16 year old, John Grady Cole, grabs you into the novel with the gripping sensation of you wanting to continue reading to find out what happens next. McCarthy's style includes no punctuation, making it hard to follow, but is written well enough to grip the reader into reading on to find out the next dialogue sequence and the changing detail of the scenery. McCarthy deals with major themes such as: honor, religion, and death. For a boy of 16, these areas are hard to understand. Death takes a hard toll on a person regardless of age, however; it affects a younger age more so because they do not know how to handle the problem. Honor is an acceptance of manhood and maturity. As the novel develops, Cole is described as growing up and maturing. He knows honor to be held as sticking by his friend, Lacey Rawlins, and standing up for his rights and what he believes in. Religion is also a hard topic because a boy changes so much in his teen years that he has many doubts and fears of what truly exists. I highly recommend this novel to anyone that likes western novels with romance and gunplay.
Rating: 5
Summary: Stunning Novel
Comment: I thoroughly enjoyed this novel. I loved the main character and, unlike some other McCarthy books, the plot is easy to follow. The rhthym of his writing is amazing and after a while you get into a steady pace when you read it. This is by far his best...
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Title: The Crossing (Vintage International (Paperback)) by Cormac McCarthy ISBN: 0679760849 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Cities of the Plain (Border Trilogy (Paperback)) by Cormac McCarthy ISBN: 0679747192 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: All the Pretty Horses (Cliffs Notes) by Jeanne Inness ISBN: 0764585517 Publisher: Cliffs Notes Pub. Date: 01 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Blood Meridian, Or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy ISBN: 0679728759 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 May, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston ISBN: 0060931418 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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