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All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)

Cormac McCarthy

Start date: April 1, 2024

Finish date: June 30, 2024

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Aug 21, 2022 Chrissie rated it really liked it

Shelves: hf, classics, series, life-stages, westerns, usa, legimus, 2022-read, love, flora

The ending is so very nice. It pushed my rating from three to four stars. But let me state clearly, never did I ever consider giving the book anything less than three stars.

The ending left me smiling. After the bad, horrible things we must get through as we travel through the story, the ending, although not sugar sweet, is very, very nice. I didn’t know how much I needed this ending until I had it here in my lap. In this book, the bad is bad and the good is good and this is just as it should be ...more

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Jun 30, 2018 Karen rated it really liked it

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I have heard that Cormac McCarthy is the greatest living author. Well, I don't know about that, but I can tell you that this first book in the Border Trilogy is beautifully written. Loved the landscape and the characters. I felt as though I was right there riding with the teenage cowboys in Mexico.

I have only one complaint. I don't know Spanish (I took French and Italian). There was a lot of Spanish in this book without any translation. Although, I was able to figure many things out. I think it ...more

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Jan 25, 2019 AZ BOOKS rated it it was amazing

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Pg 239.. It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood and this is a thing that even God-who knows all that can be known-seems powerless to change.

pg 285 He crossed on through the high country and in the evening descended the north slope and rode out onto the foreplain where the creosote deep olive from the rains stood in solemn colonies as it h ...more

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