false 469571 30 Part bildungsroman, part horse opera, part meditation on courage and loyalty, this beautifully crafted novel won the National Book Award in 1992. The plot is simple enough. John Grady Cole, a 16-year-old 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 <i>hacienda</i> where Cole falls into an ill-fated romance. Readers familiar with McCarthy's Faulknerian prose will find the writing more restrained than in <i>Suttree</i> and <i>Blood Meridian</i>. Newcomers will be mesmerized by the tragic tale of John Grady Cole's coming of age. 1907621 1992 All the Pretty Horses (Border Trilogy, Vol 1) total:11233|5:3350|4:4432|3:2465|2:709|1:277| 11233 43568 14983 1252 1 8 false false Wed Jun 25 12:58:06 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 25 13:05:08 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 9 false false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999 Sun Jun 24 06:43:30 -0700 2007 Sun Jun 24 07:02:07 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 6 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 27 23:23:29 -0700 2007 Mon Nov 05 18:54:45 -0800 2007
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You read the first sentence of a Cormac McCarthy novel and you know that this is not Grisham or Connolly or Child or Crichton or King, certainly not Patterson, or anyone else writing fiction today. And before the first page is turned he has launched into one of his frene...more...]]> 4 4 false false Tue Feb 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 03 18:56:40 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 15:37:14 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 4 false false Fri Jun 20 07:38:57 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 20 07:40:57 -0700 2008 4 3 true false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Dec 25 09:01:55 -0800 2007 Tue Dec 25 09:04:01 -0800 2007 Did I tell you I read this book for high school class? After reading Anna Karenina in that same class, I still think this McCarthy book is harder to read from end to end. It’s not the Spanish conversations that get me stuck, it’s not the lack of quotations or the run-on sentences that unab...more...]]> 3 2 false false Mon Apr 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 10 06:04:16 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 23 05:19:25 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 3 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Nov 28 10:20:44 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 28 10:35:40 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Dec 01 20:01:10 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 20:09:15 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 3 false false Mon Jul 28 12:10:59 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 28 12:13:38 -0700 2008 1 2 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 05 07:50:22 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 05 07:51:17 -0700 2008 5 1 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 29 17:22:18 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 29 17:39:24 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 19 07:22:23 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 26 10:40:36 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 2 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 09 17:28:12 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 09 17:42:37 -0700 2007
I just finished it, and as with every book I review here, these...more...]]> 2 1 false false Sun Sep 16 09:15:11 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 16 09:30:03 -0700 2007 I'm not sure what the purpose of leaving out those con...more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 03 15:47:47 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 08 20:05:53 -0800 2008
I didn't think I would. At first, his endless sentences, while poetic, seemed to swim in my head like madness. And dialogue without quotations????? But I started reading, and before I knew it I realized that I no longer noticed the lack of quotes,...more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Jun 10 11:56:26 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 22 07:39:24 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 10 11:56:26 -0700 2008
I read the Border Trilogy in Senior Year of High School for AP English (my teacher went to school with McCarthy, and got advance copies of Cities of the Plain - I had NO idea how lucky we were). I honestly didn't remember much of it, probably due to my ADD-addled brain.

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The title, as others have noted before me, is a bit of a misnomer. The main character is a 16-year-old Texas cowboy who runs away from home with a friend and becomes a horse breaker in Mexico. He falls in lov...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Mon Jun 04 11:47:01 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 04 11:54:17 -0700 2007 more...]]>