Yeah, the ending to The Crossing straight wrecked me. 😭

Just wait till you get to the end. Shit left me feeling hollow. :(

@@TH3F4LC0Nx How can a man write about capturing a Wolf in such detail without ever having done it himself? Magnificent.

Thnx so much! 😊 I think I would say that All the Pretty Horses is more accessible than Child of God, if only because its content isn't so grotesque. (CoG is my least favorite of his books...) But yeah, The Crossing really blew me away too! 😁

@@TH3F4LC0Nx oh yeah, I was being sarcastic. I tell everyone to steer clear of Child of God! My wife’s favorite is No Country for Old Men. I introduced it to her when we were in college, the beginning of our reading books in the same year or at the same time to discuss them. The Sound and the Fury was the next one!

@@ramblingraconteur1616 That's so sweet about you and your wife reading books and discussing them together! 🥰 That's every bookworm's dream relationship right there! And I would have known you were a keeper if you'd pressed a McCarthy book into my hands. But then I might have had second thoughts when you broke out The Sound and the Fury! 😂 JK, I like Faulkner well enough, (I'm actually reading Light in August right now, coincidentally! 😀), but I think that, as something of an inheritor/product of Faulkner's legacy, McCarthy has far surpassed him. I've always felt that Faulkner put all his effort into the style of his books, (which is usually superb), rather than into their subtextual content. Cormac's books are both gorgeously written and (I think, at least) much more philosophically profound. But again, I own several of Faulkner's books, so I still like him. 😁

I definitely agree that Cities of the Plain is underrated. I just finished it a few days ago. It's probably my least favorite of the three, but that's not a knock against it at all. It's a perfect ending to the trilogy.

Thank you! :)

Thnx so much! I'm flattered! 🤗 And yeah, I know what's it's like to get wrapped up in tech. In the digital age, it can be a real feat to dive off into print media. Stay the course though; it's worth it! 😉

Thank you! I'm flattered! :D

Hey, thnx so much! Coincidentally, I just put out my review of The Passenger, and like you, I was gobsmacked! :o And stay tuned for my Stella Maris review, as there is a quite interesting connection between that book and Cities of the Plain that I haven't really seen anyone else pick up on. ;)

The boarder trilogy is fantastic. I loved The Passanger as well totally blown away by it! Also I suggest checking out Sutree. I just finished it a week ago. It was much harder to read than his other books, just how it is written, but it is SO worth it.

@@KenrickBlock thank you, I’ve just bought Sutree, going to see if I can tick off the remaining McCarthys I’ve not read this year

@@TommyRogic18 Enjoy! I am doing a similar thing and it has been a true joy to read his work

Thanks! Glad you stayed hooked! Maybe not the deepest McCarthy book, but still a swell read. :)

Yeah that epilogue kinda stumped me, but I still loved it. 😂

I think Blood Meridian is pretty much unequivocally his magnum opus, so you may have already hit the watermark, lol. XD But personally I think No Country for Old Men is his most thematically rich work (surpassing, imo, even Blood Meridian). No Country is a DEEP book; the only problem is that the writing is probably the weakest in that book, because he originally wrote it as a screenplay. The Road is also incredibly powerful on an emotional level (so much so that it'll legitly kinda make you question if living is even worth it). But I think I would probably recommend The Crossing. The writing is gorgeous, it's ridiculously mystical in its outlook and its very profound as well and the ending is downright devastating. It's a little disjointed structurally, but that's where I'd personally go next. :)

Oh you know it! :D

I've definitely ridden that same fence myself. I looooove The Crossing; it's so good! But for me, there were a few times in that one where the writing got a little out of hand I think. But that ending is still one of the most powerful I've ever read, so I definitely see where you're coming from. :)

@@TH3F4LC0Nx Cheers 🤙

This is an example of what makes a Kindle worthwhile. I much prefer reading from a book but the tools a Kindle has can really be help.

or use an online dictionary or actual dictionary and learn a little Spanish while you're at it. Seeing as Spanish is the language in much of locations the books take place in. Jeez, why wouldn't he include it? it'd be strange to not have Spanish at all in books set in the border states / Mexico.