All the Pretty Horses

May 31, 2010 | By In Sport |

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5 Comments so far

  1. Rita Skeeter on May 31st, 2010

    Ugggh! This has to be one of the worst books I’ve ever read in all my years of reading young adult literature! For one, what’s with McCarthy not putting in quotes?? I mean, I knows it’s a style and all, but I never really did know what was going on!! And the ANDS… uhh, I’ve never seen so many in ONE book! It was absolute craziness! I wouldn’t recommend this book to ANYONE!!
    Rating: 1 / 5

  2. Aime J on May 31st, 2010

    Frustrated authors take note, you can be published and you don’t even have to worry about little details such as punctuation, sentence clarity, story, structure or grammar. Cormac McCarthy proves it eloquently with “All the Pretty Horses.” Had McCarthy ever bothered to revise this draft he might of had a story, however he just cranked it out of his typewriter or computer put a stamp on it and shot it over to some publisher, who was either drunk or high or both, who thought “What the hell, let’s print a really awful story and promote the hell out of it. I’m sure people will buy it, after all Americans don’t care about grammar anyway.”

    I’m not going to dive into the plot of the story- you can read it above. This book falls short of one of the best in literature. How they compare this guy to Faulkner is beyond me, the comparrison is an insult to Faulkner and people who read books in general. Most fifth graders can write better, more enthralling naratives.

    Rating: 1 / 5

  3. J. Lawrence on June 1st, 2010

    I was disappointed in the style of this book. I had just read “Water for Elephants” and was blown away. The reviews I read lead me to this author and the above book. The story line is good however he is slow to develop it. I appreciate discriptive text however a paragraph (or more) it seems to descibbe a dry river bed is a bit much especially when there is one on every page. Alas the last 1/3 of the book will go unread. And I will search for the next W.F.E.
    Rating: 2 / 5

  4. Sgt. Pepper on June 1st, 2010

    I thought the book was rather hard to understand and extremely slow-moving. The author didn’t use quotation marks when characters spoke, and he used Spanish in dialogue. I think that the book was disappointing.
    Rating: 2 / 5

  5. Diana Stegall on June 1st, 2010

    I’m not commenting on the book, because I put this book down after the first page. Why? It would be nice if I could read the book clearly. As in, bloody quotation marks, commas, little details such as that. No, that wouldn’t be hip and cool, that would be conforming to this silly tradition of (can you believe it?) legible writing. Oy vey.
    Rating: 1 / 5

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