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All the Pretty Horses (Border Trilogy, Vol 1)
by Cormac McCarthy

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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/469571.All_the_Pretty_Horses?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="All the Pretty Horses (Border Trilogy, Vol 1)" border="0" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1204745310m/469571.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/469571.All_the_Pretty_Horses?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">All the Pretty Horses</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4178.Cormac_McCarthy">Cormac McCarthy</a> 
 <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8407595?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a>
 rating: 5 of 5 stars Wow, I was really surprised by how much I liked this book. My dad gave it to me while he was cleaning out his bookcase to donate read books to the library, and I thought, Oh, Cormac McCarthy, he's one of those I should read. I read most of it either on a plane or in an airport, which I don't recommend because of all of the noise. You need to concentrate with this one. Focus on the words. Maybe reread a couple of parts to really let it sink in.
 
 Cormac McCarthy is lovely. He reminds me of Hemingway (only read one of Hemingway's though, so I'm not the expert)-- takes his time, very manly characters and story, and there are just sometimes when, wow, he just really nails it and you think, That was beautiful, Cormac. And even better, when there are slow parts, I wasn't thinking, Blow the damn bridge, Robert Jordan!, as I did with Hemingway, but was just kind of clip-clopping along on a horse. That's always nice.
 
 Favorite part (on page 23 of this edition): They scarcely spoke all day. His father rode sitting forward slightly in the saddle, holding the reins in one hand about two inches above the saddlehorn. So thin and frail, lost in his clothes. Looking over the country with those sunken eyes as if the world out there had been altered or made suspect by what he'd seen of it elsewhere. As if he might never see it right again. Or worse did see it right at last. See it as it had always been, would forever be. The boy who rode on slightly before him sat a horse not only as if he'd been born to it which he was but as if were he begot by malice or mischance into some queer land where horses never were he would have found them anyway. Would have known that there was something missing for the world to be right or he right in it and would have set forth to wander wherever it was needed for as long as it took until he came upon one and he would have known that was what he sought and it would have been. 
 
 Lovely, Cormac.
 
 I do have to add that I wanted to give this a 4.5 instead of a 5, just because the last section threw me off a little. My dad agrees.
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status: Read in October, 2007

Wow, I was really surprised by how much I liked this book. My dad gave it to me while he was cleaning out his bookcase to donate read books to the library, and I thought, Oh, Cormac McCarthy, he's one of those I should read. I read most of it either on a plane or in an airport, which I don't recommend because of all of the noise. You need to concentrate with this one. Focus on the words. Maybe reread a couple of parts to really let it sink in.

Cormac McCarthy is lovely. He reminds me of Hemingway (only read one of Hemingway's though, so I'm not the expert)-- takes his time, very manly characters and story, and there are just sometimes when, wow, he just really nails it and you think, That was beautiful, Cormac. And even better, when there are slow parts, I wasn't thinking, Blow the damn bridge, Robert Jordan!, as I did with Hemingway, but was just kind of clip-clopping along on a horse. That's always nice.

Favorite part (on page 23 of this edition): They scarcely spoke al...more Wow, I was really surprised by how much I liked this book. My dad gave it to me while he was cleaning out his bookcase to donate read books to the library, and I thought, Oh, Cormac McCarthy, he's one of those I should read. I read most of it either on a plane or in an airport, which I don't recommend because of all of the noise. You need to concentrate with this one. Focus on the words. Maybe reread a couple of parts to really let it sink in.

Cormac McCarthy is lovely. He reminds me of Hemingway (only read one of Hemingway's though, so I'm not the expert)-- takes his time, very manly characters and story, and there are just sometimes when, wow, he just really nails it and you think, That was beautiful, Cormac. And even better, when there are slow parts, I wasn't thinking, Blow the damn bridge, Robert Jordan!, as I did with Hemingway, but was just kind of clip-clopping along on a horse. That's always nice.

Favorite part (on page 23 of this edition): They scarcely spoke all day. His father rode sitting forward slightly in the saddle, holding the reins in one hand about two inches above the saddlehorn. So thin and frail, lost in his clothes. Looking over the country with those sunken eyes as if the world out there had been altered or made suspect by what he'd seen of it elsewhere. As if he might never see it right again. Or worse did see it right at last. See it as it had always been, would forever be. The boy who rode on slightly before him sat a horse not only as if he'd been born to it which he was but as if were he begot by malice or mischance into some queer land where horses never were he would have found them anyway. Would have known that there was something missing for the world to be right or he right in it and would have set forth to wander wherever it was needed for as long as it took until he came upon one and he would have known that was what he sought and it would have been.

Lovely, Cormac.

I do have to add that I wanted to give this a 4.5 instead of a 5, just because the last section threw me off a little. My dad agrees....less

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