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| All the Pretty Horses | 
 enlarge | Author: Cormac Mccarthy
Publisher: Vintage
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (302 reviews)
Sales Rank: 2431
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.1 x 0.8
ISBN: 0679744398
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780679744399
ASIN: 0679744398
Publication Date: June 29, 1993
Release Date: June 29, 1993
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| Customer Reviews:
 Kinda dense July 22, 2007
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
A lot of people struggle with this book in the beginning. I attempted to read it a couple times before I acutally made it past the first twenty or so pages. Once I found the time to dedicate myself to the reading... well, its not a bad book. I've been told its not the author's best. So I'll give him another try. As for this book, I don't think I'll read it again. Not for a while at least.
 Waste your time on something else July 13, 2007
5 out of 15 found this review helpful
I picked this book from Amazon mainly because it won the National Book Award. As no one had reviewed it yet, I couldn't see what others thought about it. But apparently there are many fans of McCarthy's work as someone has even written a book about these books.br /br /I could get past McCarthy's lack of important syntax. It must be the rebel in him. I don't really care. I can certainly read and understand a sentence that has no quotation marks and a lack of proper capitalization. After all, that's the way we speak and we understand each other well enough. That's just what makes it such a small rebellion on McCarthy's part. Still, in a book I expect these things so the pretentions of McCarthy's writing bothered me.br /br /I could forgive these minor annoyances on EVERY page if the story was something better than simply boring. If it taught me something; if it made me think, laugh, feel, or examine my ideals; if I didn't resent McCarthy's small-minded rebellion against rules of grammar that are generally followed by every great and small writer in the literary universe and the utter snobbishness of him, I wouldn't have regretted spending the ten bucks for this ode to self-indulgent egotism.br /br /Like many others have written about other books, if I could have given this book less than one star I would have. br /br /Here's a list of things that are a better waste of time:br /1. br /2. br /3. br /4. I can't think of anything.
 Excellent book June 28, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I don't normally read fiction, but was forced to read this book eight years ago for a college assignment. I couldn't be more delighted that my instructor forced me to read this book! My reluctance turned to joy and determination as I whiped through the pages as fast as I possibly could. This book has everything: joy, romance, action, life changing events, tragedy, unexpected twists, not to mention human loss and suffering. I found this book to be well written, and much better than the movie that attempted to capture it's essence a few years back (Matt Damon is in the movie). This book lives up to the five star votes it has received from so many readers. I hope you enjoy, I did.
Classic June 20, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a classic novel, solid writing and straightforward narrative. The narrative is driven forward by John Grady Cole's desire--his desire for a bygone era of Western ranches, his desire for the daughter of a wealthy Mexican ranch owner, his desire to act by his own strict ethical code in a world that is largely indifferent to such a code.br /br /The novel is full of great passages of descriptive prose, drawing out the landscape before the narrative settles down into the characters and action. The expansive descriptions remind me of the way a Western film pans out to the cowboy landscape, to the lone men in the landscape, to horses and cattle. It reminded me somewhat of Zane Gray novels or similar such genre work, except the characters are much more complex, and of course the language is nothing like a genre Western. It is only the plot that makes me think of classic Westerns--working cowboys, guns, horses, the pretty daughter of wealthy landowners. br /br /I tend to read for long stretches, so there were moments when the rhapsodic descriptions of landscape seemed repetitive--almost as though the writer felt obliged to remind the reader that this was after all the Great American West. I didn't need to be reminded and the descriptions often took me out of the action. Though I suspect that I might not have noticed it if I did not read at such long sittings. br /br /McCarthy created secondary characters very well. Some of the greatest insights come from Alfonsa, the aunt of the beautiful daughter. The characters of the ranch-hands and town folk are nicely filled out. They are not simply backdrops or props, off of which bounce the protagonist or the action. They have their own lives and their own stories. It adds depth and credibility to the story. And all these characters are smart. That is one important thing that comes through in this novel; the characters are always the smartest people in the room.br /br /It is refreshing to read a book that does not employ those little cliff-hangers, those chapters that end like a Scooby Doo episode or an after-school special--to borrow from the end of the first chapter of American Pastoral, "I was wrong. Never more mistaken about anyone in my life." Or the end of the second chapter, "...only then did I discover that Jerry Levov, having arrived late, was among us." This always feels cheap to me. br /br /McCarthy runs the narrative out. I don't know what life will bring for Grady, but I do know that this story was the defining moment of his life. Everything that happens to him will either spring from or be compared to this trip to Mexico.
Like the moon in the dark desert sky, this book is like a long and beautiful music note May 23, 2007
I cherished the slow rides across the desert with the rich imagry and the long contemplations about life, love and God (which might be horses?). There are few explantions -- things happen because that's the way they are and answers either come much later or perhaps never at all. Life in this time requires complete trust in oneself and patience. It is a much different world than we live in today with our constant need for answers and information - perhaps that is why the book seemed like such an escape. All of this is illustrated through the story of John Cole and Lacey Rawlins and their sometimes companion Blevins and their trek through Mexico. I have yet to come across another author who's style, prose and imagry can compare to McCarthy's. I am a desert worshiper and appreciate that McCarthy captures so well, and helped to show me more, the bounty of life and beauty that the desert holds.
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