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  <title><![CDATA[The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses / The Crossing / Cities of the Plain (Everyman's Library)]]></title>
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  <default_description>(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Available together in one volume for the first time, the three novels of Cormac McCarthy's award-winning and bestselling &lt;i&gt;Border Trilogy &lt;/i&gt;constitute a genuine American epic.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Beginning with &lt;i&gt;All the Pretty Horses&lt;/i&gt; and continuing through &lt;i&gt;The Crossing&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;Cities of the Plain&lt;/i&gt;, McCarthy chronicles the lives of two young men coming of age in the Southwest and Mexico, poised on the edge of a world about to change forever.  Hauntingly beautiful, filled with sorrow and humor, &lt;i&gt;The Border Trilogy&lt;/i&gt; is a masterful elegy for the American frontier.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1994</original_publication_year>
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    <body><![CDATA[I first read All The Pretty Horses camping on the beach in Sonora, Mexico. I had never read McCarthy before and it blew me away. The rhythm of the prose mimics the gait of a horse on an open range, the lyrical descriptions of the Southwestern landscape dead-on. Well-crafted (and often humorous) dial...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22575327">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It took me a while to get through this trilogy, since I took a break between the second and third book, but I'm so glad I finally finished it.<br/><br/>All the Pretty Horses was definitely the strongest and most even, in my opinion. McCarthy introduces his epic hero, John Grady Cole, and it's hard...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9375041">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[All three books are powerful. The first two introduce the two main characters that meet in the third, but you could read each separately. Each has a sad inevitability, but you can immerse yourself in the writing style. Even the passages in Spanish, which are, for the most part, untranslated, ads to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18608616">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Dec 06 21:14:46 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love these books!  I first read All the Pretty Horses in high school, and liked it so much I started reading his other books.  These are my favorites of his, by far.  I enjoy his writing style, and the southwest setting always makes me feel some sort of wanderlust...it would be nice to have a life...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10071887">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="66251414">
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  <date_added>Tue Aug 04 21:44:47 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just regarding _All the Pretty Horses_: Sights, sounds, and smells in this novel (particularly those associated with horses and weather) have a tendency to turn into echoes of abstractions and hint at secret truths etched in the dark heart of being.  That's striking imagery the first time and maybe ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66251414">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="42849083">
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[These are Cormac's Texas/Mexico border stories.  His command of the language and the poetry of nature is startling.  Pretty Horses was by far the easiest choice for a movie.  The other books vibrate with life, as if a geologist has lifted up a handful of earth and is breaking it down molecule by mol...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42849083">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="24418351">
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wouldn't have chosen this on my own, but read the first one for book club. It was interesting enough that I wanted to read the other 2 to find out what happened. I will tell you that there are a few spots in the three books that are on the boring side just because they are so long. Persevere throu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24418351">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="20062145">
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Brilliant. I first read &quot;All the Pretty Horses&quot; right after finishing &quot;Blood Meridian,&quot; and it seemed a little tame by comparison. But this time around I read the entire trilogy, and loved it from start to finish. This is mid-period McCarthy, halfway between the Faulknerian whims...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20062145">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="19186063">
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    <body><![CDATA[I read all three of the trilogy as individual books over the past year (I just used the triology for ease of posting)... starting with the Pretty Horses on the ride back from Florida last year and finishing the last of the series with Cities of the Plain this January.  Cormac Mcarthy has become one ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19186063">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm really starring up the place.  I give the series five stars just because if I ever met McCarthy and he called me on giving him less than five stars I'd be afraid he'd beat me to death with a branding iron or cave my head in with a rusty shovel.<br/><br/>I love these books as a whole but mostly...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6028239">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="58634813">
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am seriously never inviting this guy McCarthy over for a dinner party...whatever goodness and light his characters find at one point in the story eventually is engulfed by pain and darkness.  But I am never ceased to be amazed at the high-wire act he pulls off with his words...I ought to be throwi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58634813">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="21663467">
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;All The Pretty Horses&quot; is a great read, but surprisingly mainstream for McCarthy. &quot;Cities on the Plain&quot;, on the other hand, may turn off casual readers due to its somewhat obtuse plot (there is, however, a scene in the book that is one of the most intense ever written, and its w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21663467">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just finished the first book of this trilogy.  I am NOT a western story reader, but this story really portrays a young man pushing through life at a time where one has to be self-reliant. The writing style of McCarthy took a few pages before I understood the cadence and intent.  Then the book came t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77111087">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56235811">
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    <body><![CDATA[Three different books really.  I finished one and sought out the others. Two of the three appealed to me more, but I won't say which two.   All the Pretty Horses is a Coming of age story -- Top-notch LITERATURE with substance. These would be far more appealing to adolescent male readers than some of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56235811">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="57512537">
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    <body><![CDATA[A lot of pain to read through before the end. All the pretty horses stands pretty well on its own. I still am haunted with the tragedy. Don't remember much about the Crossing. Left with the image of an elderly cowboy crossing a freeway from cities of the plain. Perfect ending to the trilogy.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Nov 24 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Three wonderful novels set on the southwest border in the early to mid 1900s.  Very &quot;western&quot; but even if you don't like western's, these books are so well written and the stories so effecting, you won't come away unchanged.  Over a thousand pages all together so be prepared.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't really get into the Crossing, but other than that Cormac McCarthy has to be one of my favorite authors.  He really doesn't give you a lot to go on, the stories are slow, and the characters don't say/think/do much but the books are all strangely compelling.  ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jun 03 20:58:19 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm on Cities of the Plain.  The greatness of this work cannot be overstated.  A great American epic!  A meditation on the beauty of the land, and how that beauty is endangered by mechanized industry.  Cowboys longing for a past that once flourished in the American West, lingering around the fire li...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57342958">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A long &amp; curious journey through the Tex-Mex landscape where the land is more important than the individuals that cross it or inhabit it...bordering on the surreal, McCarthy gets at things our civilization has lost or is losing...]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am utterly additicted to McCarthy's style.  His prose combined with the cowboy wisdom of his main characters in all three of these stories creates his most beautiful opus. ]]></body>
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