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

Sep 06, 2009 Linda Robinson rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

John Grady Cole and Lacey Rawlins are unforgettable.

Lacey on breaking horses:

"I never saw one that completely believed it the first time or ever doubted it the second."

John Grady Cole:

"He thought the world's heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world's pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in its headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for the vision of a single flower." ...more

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Dec 03, 2017 Sharon rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fiction, literature-classics, adventure

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. A host of run-on sentences near the beginning had me rereading some, but that settles into much shorter ones with more of the run-on style here and there, not very much. It seemed to be a way of conversation and thought for the main character, who narrates. I would read more of McCarthy's books. Detail is amazing, insightful, and more than I can eloquently say.

Although I haven't traveled much in Texas or Mexico where the story takes place, I live in the west and ...more

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Apr 24, 2009 Todd rated it it was amazing

I have to say this is one of the best books i have ever read....and i have been skeptical of mcarthy's work so far.....this one though has won me over as a fan.
Although it is strange to me that he has some rocky beginnings in his books where i am like...meh....but then after 30 or so pages i am totally hooked....weird but maybe that is the beauty of them.

This one, no country and blood meridian are pretty awesome, but i actually think all the pretty horses might be better than them all. I am on ...more

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