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Jason
May 28, 2010 rated it it was amazing
My esteemed offendee Natalie has been recommending this book to me for some time, and it turns out that a buddy of mine at work here in Beijing just happens to own a copy and brought it over with him from England. When he found out I would be going on vacation, and that my destination was the Taklamakan Desert by way of old-fashioned train, he told me I MUST read it.

So on the train to Xinjiang, China, I did read it. Finished it upon returning home to Beijing. The environment of reading it could ...more
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Wes F
Mar 04, 2012 rated it it was amazing
Heavy duty--wow--that's about all I can say about my first Cormac McCarthy read. Reminiscent of the dense, heavy, serious, epic writing of greats like Melville & Faulkner--where the land & environment take on characters of their own, fully developed & foreboding. The human personalities loom large & epic-like as they struggle in & against the landscape and those who are bound up with it as intricate, intertwining characters. The story is set in the Wild West along the Texas-Mexican border in the ...more
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Wendy
May 12, 2015 rated it did not like it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: dnf, audiobook, 2015
I just couldn't finish this book. It was too disturbing and graphic for my liking. ...more
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Tracyene
Apr 13, 2010 marked it as to-read
Shannon
May 11, 2011 rated it it was amazing
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Tim
Sep 17, 2012 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: contemporary-fiction
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Mar 26, 2013 marked it as to-read
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Jan 15, 2017 marked it as to-read
Ryan
Dec 01, 2017 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Brenda
Oct 04, 2019 rated it did not like it
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Dec 04, 2023 marked it as to-read
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May 08, 2024 marked it as to-read
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