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... There are many pieces of adult fiction that feature children/teens as main characters and protagonists. For example All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy; The Shadow Year by Jeffrey Ford and Calabash by Christopher Fowler - for a start. I would think that intelligent teens would ...
... daft punctuation, doesn't he? Is his characterisation and sense of time better (his sense of place is pretty damn good in All the Pretty Horses )?
Finished All the Pretty Horses , Cormac McCarthy. I don't get it. I don't get the bizarre punctuation - some contractions use apostrophes, some don't; no quotation marks for dialogue. I don't get why McCarthy is currently considered one of the US's great writers. He has a good eye for landscape, ...
Book 89: All the Pretty Horses , Cormac McCarthy. I don't get it. I don't get the bizarre punctuation - some contractions use apostrophes, some don't; no quotation marks for dialogue. I don't get why McCarthy is currently considered one of the US's great writers. He has a good eye for landscape, ...
... the back cover blurb's "some of the most beloved names in science fiction"... beloved? Wtf does that mean?
Just started All the Pretty Horses , Cormac McCarthy. The only other book by him I've read is The Road - which I quite liked (see mirrordrum in Book talk : Another Silly Game Part 33 (Nov 9, 2009, 9:41pm)
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
read a few years ago.
Hello,
updating list:
45. This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
46. All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
47. Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
48. Catastrophe by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann
49. That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo
50. The Fixer U ...
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March
Fiction: Let the Right One In, Drood
Nonfiction: The Lost City of Z
April
Fiction: Jailbait Zombies, All the Pretty Horses
Nonfiction: none
May
Fiction: The Road
Nonfiction: Go Down Together: the True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde
June
Fiction: Here, Ther ...
So now you need to try No Country for Old Men and All the Pretty Horses . McCarthy is fantastic in all of them!
de si jolis chevaux m'a été conseillé par Andad, suite à ma lecture de La Route by Cormac McCarthy . Andad me suggérait de le lire en anglais à cause de la richesse de l'écriture, mais j'ai choisi la facilité. C'est le premier tome d'une trilogie initiatique, ça se passe entre les US ...
Almost finished with All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy. While quite a bit different from the other novels I've read by him, I'm nonetheless charmed and delighted by it.
OK, that list was way too long! I've deleted it. If anyone wants the alphabetized list, tell me and I'll send it to you.
... I read.
Edited to add: Oh, no, no, no! I'm shuddering still from reading the reviews of Blood Meridian. I loved All the Pretty Horses but don't want to go there.
... of a Murderer
2. Life of Pi
3. The Secret Magdalene
4. Into the Wild
5. Blood Meridian
6. Alias Grace
7. All the Pretty Horses
I'm reading Flow Down Like Silver: Hypatia of Alexandria. That might make this list.
... personal nationality. Wild Geese - Martha Ostenso; A Jest of God - Margaret Laurence
United States: Quite a few. All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy; Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
United Kingdom: Lots of novels. Most recently, The Children's Book - A. S. ...
... it, I was just keeping it as my back-up emergency book on my iPhone. I started reading it when I left my other 1001 book, All the Pretty Horses , at work accidentally. Both books are engaging reads.
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy. Read many years ago
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The Hive
The Sound of Waves
Clear Light of Day
All the Pretty Horses
Snow
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The Swarm
The Line of Beauty
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A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian Supposed ...
... DrNeutron said - I finally discovered McCarthy this year, and have loved The Road, No Country for Old Men, and All the Pretty Horses . He is such a gritty writer, and his books are anything but cheerful, but I have found that they contain a lot of insight and food for discussion.
... hte reasons. If you haven't read The Road yet, give it a try. I'm also in the middle of his Border trilogy starting with All the Pretty Horses , another really fine work.
all the pretty horses by Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy. His most recent one is The Road, but he has written a lot of good ones, including All The Pretty Horses and the rest of The Border Trilogy, Blood Meridian, and No Country for Old Men.
Just completed a Swedish sojourn with Henning Mankell in Firewall, and in northern Mexico with All the Pretty Horses and about to enjoy bush tea with Mma Romotswe again in Tea Time for the Traditionally Built
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Vanity Fair
To Kill a Mockingbird
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
Alice in Wonderland
Kafka on the Shore
All the Pretty Horses
The Trial
The Odyssey
Ditto on how tough it is to narrow it down.
#18 All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
really enjoyed this book, so much so that i'm going to read the second book in the trilogy immediatly. At first i found the Writing a little hard to come to terms with; his sentences seemed peculuar. thirty pages in though i was loving them. i ...
teelgee, All the Pretty Horses doesn't suddenly turn a corner and change or anything. If you were struggling at the start, you'll be struggling all the way. I just found it very powerful, almost hypnotic in its language - I was in from the start and wasn't let off until the end. Here's my review ...
Standouts from that previous list include Fingersmith, All the Pretty Horses , The Yellow Wallpaper, The Leopard, The Slap, The Player of Games, Rebecca and Cold Comfort Farm. They were the ones I had to convince myself to not give 5 stars to, as I do have a tendency to over-rate ...
... Stories, F. Scott Fitzgerald.
6. The Middleman: The Collected Series Indispensability, Javier Grillo-Marxuach.
7. All The Pretty Horses , Cormac McCarthy.
8. Pere Goriot, Honore Balzac.
9. The Memory Room, Christopher Koch.
10. Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston.
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... books ever
Alias Grace - I became an Atwood fan based on this book
The Virgin Suicides - just bizarre enough :)
All the Pretty Horses - I LOVE Cormac McCarthy
The English Patient - one of my top 5 favourite books ever
The Graduate - the movie based on this book is my favourite ...
... remember to meet at The Crossing. Beware of A Dangerous Woman who has set up Housekeeping near the pasture of All the Pretty Horses.
... the prose: Faulkner, Hemingway, sometimes Steinbeck. What more can you ask for? I think a lot of people judge McCarthy on All the Pretty Horses (the weakest book in the Border Crossing trilogy) or The Road (very different kind of McCarthy book)and have not been fully exposed to his whole ...
... themes. A few have stayed with me, and are destined to become longtime favourites - books like The Blind Assassin, All the Pretty Horses , Any Known Blood, and, after today, The Cellist of Sarajevo. These are books that I will shamelessly push on my friends (and unsuspecting people ...
#25 - The first book I read by Cormac McCarthy was All the Pretty Horses , which also has a western theme. It is also full of beautiful language.
Currently, I have been slogging through - because it was due back at the library - the New Cold War: Putin's Russian and the Thread to the west ...
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A visit with my best friend Candice also means a book swap (as if I need more books!). I gave her The Blind Assassin, All the Pretty Horses , The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, On the Road, Any Known Blood, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and The Reader.
From Candice I ...
... in my 2007 list? Oh well, I can read some over the weekend.
I loved The Road by McCarthy. I'll take at look at All the Pretty Horses ; it sounds great.
Wasn't All the Pretty Horses great?!! I am a serious McCarthy convert too :) You are so right - a Western, but so, so much more!
Glad you enjoyed All the Pretty Horses , doc. Sounds like you'll finish the triology. He's on my favorites list. I haven't read everything he's written yet but I have read a good deal of it and I just love his voice and narrative style. I think he also has quite an ear for the language of his ...
Glad you enjoyed All the Pretty Horses , doc. Sounds like you'll finish the triology. He's on my favorites list. I haven't read everything he's written yet but I have read a good deal of it and I just love his voice and narrative style. I think he also has quite an ear for the language of his ...
39. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
So Cormac McCarthy is rapidly becoming my favorite author. I love his sparse style, his plotting, the characters he creates, and the wonderful vistas he paints. In this one, we're in west Texas and Mexico in 1949, following a young man as he ...
... in shape. Then I promised to bake cakes.....
Unlike mckait, I loved The Road so am looking forward to a review of All the Pretty Horses . It's sitting on my shelves just waiting to be read.
just dropping by to say I'm another one looking forward to your review all All the Pretty Horses !
... drop into chat this weekend when we get home, maggie.
The good news is that I've had plenty of reading time. I finished All The Pretty Horses while stuck in the Atlanta airport, then finished up Odd Hours and The Risk of Darkness. Enjoyed them all, reviews to follow...
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Farenheit 451 by Bradbury
Frankenstein by Shelley
A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Virginian by Wister
All the Pretty Horses by McCarthy
GREAT REVIEW OF ALL THE PRETTY HORSES . You captured a lot of McCarthy. Good luck with the remainder of the triology.
... Russell
No. 18: Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
No. 19: Isaac Newton by James Glieck
No. 20: All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
No. 21: The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy
Another great review. I read The Road earlier this year an enjoyed it. All the Pretty Horses sounds just as good, on to the TBR pile it goes.
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy is officially my new favourite author. I am so glad I discovered his writing this year, as All the Pretty Horses his the third book of his that I have read this year, and probably the best. Luckily it is ...
... The prose has to be almost like drinking wine.
As examples, my favourite books are:
The English Patient by Ondaatje
All the Pretty Horses by McCarthy
Hopscotch by Cortazar (sorry didn't get accent)
Unbearable Lightness of Being by Kundera
Invisible Cities by Calvino
any other ...
All the Pretty Horses . It has doomed teenage love, horses, prison and a knife fight, and a kidnapping of a Mexican captain. The kids also get credit for one unit of Spanish for their trouble. Greatest living American writer. Easily obtained, with study guides on the web---it has a lot going for ...
... and to his roots--and somehow, finally, the culture got on board (and, of course, it had been getting on board since 92s All The Pretty Horses , but nowhere near the level that Oprah Winfrey has since taken him. So kudos to Oprah, I guess, since his huge success now makes up for all those ...
Cool. I picked up All the Pretty Horses from the library about a week ago. It'll be at the top of the stack soon and we can compare notes!
... I bought:
Three Cups of Tea – Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
The Cellist of Sarajevo – Steven Galloway
All the Pretty Horses – Cormac McCarthy
People of the Book – Geraldine Brooks
The Outcast – Sadie Jones
The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
All of these ...
I loved The Road, loved No Country for Old Men, loved Pretty Horses . I think if you buy into his style, you are hooked. He is a great star in the pantheon of modern American fiction.
(And do you need another pat on the back, Fanny? OK, here it is.) :-)
I'm supposed to be reading a boy book, All the Pretty Horses for my F to F book group, but I'm struggling to get into it. So I'm going to supplement it with Bel Canto by Ann Patchett.
The Yellow Wallpaper and All the Pretty Horses were my favourite reads. With honourable mention to The Leopard and Anna Karenina as being quite magnificent, if not quite in the "favourite" category. I did like all the "1001" books I read this quarter, which was a nice change! Usually there's ...
... a fantastic reading list. Many of those books are currently on my wish list or already on my tbr pile. After having read All the Pretty Horses I'm curious about reading The Road also, which wasn't the case before as I was turned off by the whole post-apocalyptic theme, but it's been ...
... blood as they did the recollection of this and other places where horses once had been and would be again.”
All the Pretty Horses W ell I finally finished All the Pretty Horses and I must say it’s been quite a journey. I ...
... inside your head. Or at least that's the case with me as I can't speak for others.
Now my only major complaint about All the Pretty Horses is that McCarthy uses quite a few Spanish sentences for his dialogue since the majority of the story is set in Mexico. I can more or less make out ...
I’m about 40 pages into All the Pretty Horses
billiejean: I made sure to list All the Pretty Horses on my BookMooch inventory because I had the feeling otherwise it would likely stay on the tbr pile for a long long time. As it happens, right now it's next in line. My first Cormac McCarthy!
spacepotatoes: thank you for giving me a few ...
I have All the Pretty Horses on my tbr. I would love to hear what you think of it, but I probably won't be able to read it for a while. Have a great weekend!
--BJ
... here is my reading for the next 6 weeks or so:
14. Currently reading: The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster
15. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
16. The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff
17. True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
18. The Sea by John Banvill ...
... and work, I have not had much time to read so far this year, but I can finally list three novels that I have completed.
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy
Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy
By the way, the Border Trilogy was excellent, and I ...
I'm reading Cormac McCarthy's The Border Trilogy. I have finished the first two novels of the trilogy, All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing, and I am about midway through the third novel Cities of the Plain.
... a "1001" book! And get back into Anna Karenina tonight...
Can't help with westerns either! The only one I've read was All The Pretty Horses and it was neither light nor fluffy...
I have now finished All the Pretty Horses and enjoyed it greatly. One problem for me was lots of Spanish dialog which to me jarred the reading process. I will read it again perhaps with the aid of bablefish.
Now I've started The Prime of Miss Brodie which has been languishing in my bookcase ...
All the Pretty Horses , by Cormac Mccarthy, read in 2007/8.
... that one to you. Okay, if you were so moved by The Road, I would suggest trying the first of the Border Triology, All the Pretty Horses . I found that book and that series just as moving and enjoyable.
Whisper1....thank you!
Yes, another one of those "read for school" books.
How about All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy?
... enjoy it to some degree but I thought the endless foreshadowing made me impatient to finish the book.
Next up will be All the Pretty Horses which I expect to enjoy, having read other Cormac McCarthy
chrine in 999 Challenge : Chrine's 999 Challenge (Feb 2, 2009, 4:23am)
... = 6.172%
Pages read: 1,909
The breakdown by categories:
Category 1: Someday I'll Read Book Club selections
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy - ###1/2
Category 2 -- The Happy Booker's Club selections
A Wolf at the Table by Augusten Burroughs - ##1/2
Category 7 -- ...
... Mr. Ripley that turned up had great reviews. I really must dig up my copy and bump it to the top of Mt TBR!!!
Finished All The Pretty Horses this morning (Mr TQD took both kids to Mr Bear's tae kwon do lesson, so I had the house to myself for an hour or so. Bliss! A great book, highly ...
--->160 msf59
I am reading The Border Trilogy in order. I just finished All the Pretty Horses over a week ago. I enjoyed the writing very much but didn't warm up to the story until the last half of the book. The Crossing has my interest more in the beginning. A few of us in the SIGR book ...
... read as such, but I have a PC copy on my shelves somewhere.
Back to the subject at hand: stayed up far too late reading All The Pretty Horses . Got to a natural break, but it was just after a cliffhanger in a Mexican prison, so I just kept on reading... Sorry I can't offer this one as a ray, ...
... book.
I've also just barely started The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy. I am thinking I might enjoy this one more than All the Pretty Horses .
Up Next:
Compiling the list of February book club reads and side reads then seeing which of those I want to plan to read next month.
... break from Anna Karenina (which is good, I just have to pass this book onto another reader sooner rather than later!) for All the Pretty Horses which I think made the 2008 edition (Cormac McCarthy missing from the 2006 edition was a bit of a clanger, I thought). I'm halfway through, I'm ...
... :) I think maybe series should be treated as one book sometimes...
Can I say that now I'm past the first 50 pages of All The Pretty Horses , I am *hooked*. The story is compelling, the lack of punctuation (once you get used to it) seems to drag my eye faster and faster along the page, and I ...
Dagnabbit, couldn't resist.
Current reads:
All the Pretty Horses : 666
Old Goriot: 1,503
Anna Karenina: 46 (hasn't moved yet!)
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: 212
... Shipping News E Annie Proulx
32. A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth
33. The Secret History Donna Tartt
34. All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy
35. Smilla's Sense of Snow Peter Hoeg
36. Wild Swans Jung Chang
37. Regeneration Pat Barker
38. Sexing ...
... those that I've already pushed the TV series onto).
I also finished part 1 of Anna Karenina! And then picked up All The Pretty Horses as I'm sending it to the latest Happy Smile Day RABCK Sweepstake (or whatever it's called) winner, and I couldn't bear to have it go in the post ...
Let's be better to Cormac McCarthy
All the Pretty Horses and The Road (2009 release) are both movies.
Bram Stoker's Dracula has been adapted numerous times.
Beowulf (makes one vomit, really)
some Italian guy did the Canterbury Tales: there is much nudity, but it is all in the ...
Cormac McCarthy
1. The Road
2. No Country for Old Men
3. Blood Meridian
4. All the Pretty Horses
5. The Crossing
6. Cities of the Plain
7. Child of God
8. Suttree
9. Outer Dark
The Christmas Train and All the Pretty Horses went back to the library today.
Thanks for the review of All the Pretty Horses . I have been wanting to read that one.
--BJ
I finished All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy today. It was a slow read for me. I ended up liking the book pretty well it turns out. The storylines didn't really interest me in the beginning but I found myself wanting to know what would happen as I moved forward in the book. The writing and ...
2. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Rating: 3.5 Stars
John Grady and Rawlins leave Texas and head to Mexico. They meet Blevins and his horse. John Grady meets a girl. A whole lot of ...
13. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
I finished All the Pretty Horses today. It's going in Category 1 as a Someday Book Club side read. I think it could also be a (modern) classic (C5).
This book was slow reading for me but the story grew on me as I neared the end. The ...
... I've gotten Twilight out of the way, I can begin my thread on something other than trashy reading. I'm currently reading All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy. I'm about 2/3 of the way through it. I love the language and writting but am having a hard time remaining interested in the ...
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1. Twilight by Stephanie Meyers JAN 10 ***
2. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (RGG SR) JAN 14 ***1/2
3. New Moon by Stephanie Meyer JAN 17 ***
4. A Wolf at the Table by Augusten Burroughs (T ...
... to me and wants it back soon and people are raving about so I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. I am also reading All the Pretty Horses currently.
Hola BJ
I am liking All the Pretty Horses but it has been slow reading for me. The language and writing is very pretty but the story isn't holding my interest. It's picking up as I near the middle so I'm reserving my opinion until I'm finished with it.
I did enjoy A Prayer for Owen Meany. ...
That was a long pause..........How about.......I have not read All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Thanks drneutron! I'll add No Country for Old Men to my list - have you read any others? All the Pretty Horses looks good, and I think that it is part of a trilogy.
Hi, chrine!
I have heard that All the Pretty Horses is a really good book. What did you think of A Prayer for Owen Meany? I have been thinking about reading that one.
--BJ
... Hardy
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Má ...
The first book I start in 2009 will be A Thousand Splendid Suns. I will be finishing All the Pretty Horses first though.
Still working on All the Pretty Horses . Not as much reading going on because of the holidays. I do hope to get it finished before it's due back to the library this time.
... of my Christmas books, or one of several ARCs that need to get read in January.
I haven't made any progress listening to All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy, but I've only got about an hour and a half left, so I should easily polish that off during my drive home this week.
I am currently reading All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy.
... Traveler's Wife maybe -- from C1
The Heretic's Daughter --from C2
Any In Death book
The Eyre Affair -- from C9
All the Pretty Horses maybe -- from C1
Katherine -- from C1
A Separate Peace -- from C2
Thursday Next in First Among Sequels -- from C9
The Red Pony -- from C1
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A Prayer for Owen Meany -- from C1
All the Pretty Horses -- from C1
A Separate Peace -- from C2
Peace Breaks Out -- from C6
Empire Falls -- from C3
The Red Pony -- from C1
This category ...
... Niffenegger -- 4.5 Stars (could also be C9 or maybe C6)
3. The Last Promise by Richard Paul Evans -- 3.5 Stars
4. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy SR -- 3.5 Stars (could also be C5 or maybe C6)
5. Katherine by Anya Seton -- 4.5 Stars (could also be a C6 or C9)
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... and I'm sure there are better ones out there.
I'm also currently reading The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde and All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy.
Not new on LT, but just venturing into the talk threads. Really like the system on it. Any guidance on navigating around ...
#3 I really liked The Thirteenth Tale.
From my chair at the computer, I can see All the Pretty Horses , Atonement, Russia and its Crisis, and Jane Eyre. With a turn to the left, I see lots more books including Siddhartha, The Selected Letters of Anton Chekhov, and Kitchen Herbs.
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All the Pretty Horses , by Cormac Mccarthy, read earlier this year, still own it, I think (sorry, moving has some of my library currently under wraps).
... Orange
Crime and Punishment
Notes from Underground
Seize the Day
Fatelessness
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
All the Pretty Horses
The Crossing
The Old Man and the Sea
One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
No Country for Old Men
The S ...
... to match the herculean numbe you've added to mine!!
lmichet, I really enjoyed the Border Triology, which starts with All the Pretty Horses .
... I myself have asked my dad for several McCarthy books for Christmas and hope to begin next year's list with Outer Dark or All The Pretty Horses .
#9: I have not read any of the Wodehouse autobiographical books, but I should get around to them soon, if I have any self-respect. Whenever I get ...
... since then I've been reading the classics.
At 13 I thoroughly enjoyed Bless me Ultima, Frankenstein, 1984, and All the Pretty Horses , all from English class. I was also getting into historical fiction like Hiroshima and All Quiet on the Western Front. I did not like Pride and Pr ...
#31 - Steven VI - bedankt! Ik zal er dit weekend nog aan gaan beginnen.
Ik het net de twee volgende boeken uit: All the Pretty Horses van Cormac McCarthy en De tuinman van niemandsland van Guus Bauer
Allebei vielen ze me tegen. Van De tuinman van niemandsland had ik een positieve ...
... much my favorite genre. I didn't find the books difficult so much, as I just wasn't satisfied with the endings. I've read All the pretty horses , but it's been years. I don't remember liking it that much.
... for Old Men is actually a bit more accessible. But if you like the prose, you should really try the Border Triology All the Pretty Horses , The Crossing, and Cities of the Plain. These are not quite as violent and are not quite as dark, though they also have the same McCarthy trait ...
... School age kids in a classroom. Some of these books discussed I wouldn't have wanted my kids to read at age 13, such as All the Pretty Horses or The Bluest Eye for example.
On the other hand, most of these battles appear to be over high school/ or individual HS classroom libraries. Also ...
... a religious person? I have no idea about him personally - haven't tried to read any of his books before although I have All the Pretty Horses on my shelves and just pulled it down to look at it.
I just finished All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy, and I felt compelled to reread the beginning of the novel almost immediately. I am also coming to the end of A Fable by William Faulkner, reading of which was interrupted by a trip on which I didn't want to take my pretty 1st ...
... amado - home is the sailor
franz kafka - the trial
michel houllebecq - platform
cormac mccarthy - all the pretty horses
kurt vonnegut - slaughterhouse five
joseph conrad - heart of darkness
Green Mile by Stephen King
Green Boy by Susan Cooper
Pretty Boy Floyd by Larry McMurtry
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Black Horses for the King by Anne McCaffrey
I thought All the Pretty Horses with Matt Damon made a surprisingly good movie out of a literary book.
And for pulp fiction -- gotta go with Mystic River or maybe The Shining.
For classics -- I love, love BBC's Middlemarch series.
Fairly disappointed by the recent The Other Bol ...
... many wars in history, its overpopulated cities, its haciendas.
I've seen movies: The Old Gringo about Ambrose Bierce, All the Pretty Horses , Zorro. And there is a recent movie about Ciudad Juarez with top actors.
In older American novels young people often went to Tijuana to "have some ...
... (and Other Goats) Joe Bennett
Lamb Bernard MacLaverty
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian Marina Lewycka
All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy
Mad Cows by Kathy Lette
The Iceman Cometh
Comes a Horseman
All the Pretty Horses
Me Talk Pretty One Day
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
... it to the screen. I decided to read The Road afterward too, I liked it also, but liked No Country better. I have got All the Pretty Horses waiting in the wings.
... scamp that she is. At least she's got good taste. Keep the threads informed of your opinions about it!
Oh gosh and All the Pretty Horses by itself nearly makes up for two weeks of booklessness. What a pleasure to read I found that book. If you don't enjoy it, I will be quite surprised. ...
... So it was almost 2 weeks w/o a bookstore. I made up for it though=-=Borders yesterday Stone Creek, Stormy Weather, All The Pretty Horses , and How to Talk to A Widower. Ok no bookstores for me (ha ha).
Oh and I love the term Mr. Man!
Chosen by a Horse by Susan Richards
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Horse's Arse by Charlie Owen
The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge
The Iron Horse by Edward Marston
All the King's Horses
Centaur, by John Updike
Equus, by Peter Shaffer
All the Pretty Horses , by Cormac McCarthy
Shank's Mare, by Ikku Jippensha
... who's having a hard passage in his life, and ended up buying him a book to get him through the difficult solitary moments: All the Pretty Horses , since he's never read it before.
I felt so virtuous, I bought myself Ibid by Mark Dunn..I've been a fan since I first read Ella Minnow Pea ...
... Gift by Bellow
4. A Hero of Our Time by Lermontov
5. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by A. Brönte
Honorable Mention: All the Pretty Horses , The Invention of Morel, Post Office, Steppenwolf, The Wild Geese/Gan
Disappointments:
Disgrace by Coetzee
Never Let Me Go by Ishigu ...
9. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy - Rating 9/10
If you liked All the pretty Horses you really should try the second and third in the triology, The Crossing and cities of the plain. the crossing introduces a new character with a similar story and cities of the plain features the main characters from both the crossing and all the ...
I read his first book all the pretty horses when it first came out then lost track of him. I'll be checking out more of his books as well.
... own tragic death so exactly echos a scene from his own work is eerie upon reading to say the least.
Honorable Mention: All the Pretty Horses , The Innocent, and Sense and Sensibility
68. All the pretty horses by Cormac McCarthy 302 pages
69. When we were orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro 336 pages
70. White Oleander by Janet Fitch 446 pages
71. Girl with the pearl earring by Tracy Chevalier 233 pages
72. 1984 by George Orwell 256 pages
73. House ...
... sure to like his other stories; you read what I think is the most difficult one of his books. Try The Border Triology with All the Pretty horses The Crossing and Cities of the Plain.
Thanks for your thoughts on the other books.
#12 & #15 blackdogbooks. I really loved All the pretty horses . Especially love McCarthy's writing style and actually enjoy reading without all the quotation marks, had no problem understanding dialog. Have only read one other of his The Road, enjoyed it also. About Love in the Time of Cholera ...
... by Philip K. Dick ***
8. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury ***½
Extra Credit: The American West {complete}
1. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy ****½
2. The Hot Kid by Elmore Leonard ***½
3. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry ****½
4. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarth ...
Sense and Sensibility ****
by Jane Austen
05/08/08
The Castle **
by Franz Kafka
05/10/08
All the Pretty Horses ****½ (#95)
by Cormac McCarthy
05/11/08
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ***½
by Mark Twain
05/13/08
... on starting a Dystopian category next which will give me a little more room in Speculative Fiction. I also just finished All the Pretty Horses so I'll probably end up with a Western category as well. As a non-genre reader it's been a nice way to mix things up this year.
I hope you enjoy All the Pretty Horses as much as I did. If so, don't stop reading, but move on quickly to The Crossing and Cities of the Plain, all part of the Border Trilogy with Horses. McCarthy's a favorite of mine. I was just writing about him over in The Kitchen.
... western/southwestern feel of the book. Some of the characters in the book (and movie) reminded me of family and friends. all the Pretty Horses was really quite a good adaptation of the book. They had to skimp a bit on the story, but the feel of the book translated very well to the screen. I' ...
#21 He did. Blood Meridian and All The Pretty Horses have made the grade.
What about A River Runs Through It?
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All the Pretty Horses ?
... You saw from my profile that he is one of my favorites. I would also highly, higly recommend the Border Triology All the Pretty Horses , The Crossing, and Cities of the Plain. Your description of the other books holds true with these. And, McCarthy's spare prose also remains true. ...
He certainly writes well; I might try to restart All the Pretty Horses ; it was just too formulaic in the opening chapters.
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I have just finished #18: The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I was not much of a fan of McCarthy's after reading All the Pretty Horses , but this book really impressed me. It is such a dark tale that I found I couldn't read it before bedtime without having nightmares, however I found ...
I understand #218, I didn't get far in All the Pretty Horses either.
All the Pretty Horses was very good. If you could handle The Road that one shouldn't disturb you too much.
... McCarthy in a couple of other groups lately. He is the only author TWO of whose books I could not finish! I started All the Pretty Horses a few years ago. After the chess game in which the wise grandmother warns the young cowboy not to flirt with the beautiful haughty daughter of the ...
... don't see what all the fuss is about. Someone on the Jewish Fiction list suggested I read Blood Meridian, and, like All the Pretty Horses , I just don't think I can finish it.
You'll love the Englander!
Libby Cone aka reademwritem
... version) Blood Meridian on the suggestion of someone in the Jewish fiction club. I had complained that I couldn't finish All the Pretty Horses because it seemed so formulaic (young cowboy starts working at a Mexican ranch; eyes proud, haughty, beautiful daughter of owner; is warned by ...
I am currently reading The Road, not expecting to like it because I didn't like All the Pretty Horses . But I am liking it very much -- perhaps I will try this one, too ...
Well, it's the second in his trilogy. First was All the Pretty Horses , then The Crossing then Cities of the Plain. I have the third, but haven't read it yet.
Yup, It was my fault, but there is a Cormac MacCarthy link here on LT. LOL
All The Pretty Horses can be viewed as a coming of age story set in the West with a Mexican twist...i read it several years ago...if you want some powerful reading try The Road or Blood Meridian.
In my opinion Cormac is a maestro!
... I don't know if I'll ever try something else by Cormac McCarthy, whom everyone raves about, but I had to put down All the Pretty Horses after encountering the brave but impecunious hero, the haughty and beautiful daughter of his employer, and the grandmother who warns him not to get ...
... put the oldest date in the mid-seventies. The oldest book I have that I acquired with the intent to read but didn't is All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy. I have it since about 1994. I believe I have one or two books that were my mother's and have been around since the 1950s but ...
97. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
You cannot fault McCarthy's writing. His prose is sparse and concise and a pleasure to read. I will difinitely be looking out for more of his novels. But the story didn't really do it for me. I understand that it has been lauded as a "great ...
I am almost finished All the Pretty Horses and after that will have to read the Gathering, The History of Love or The Eyre Affair as they are from the library; but I have also borrowed four or five others from friends and family, so they have to be read soon too . . . . .
>20 teacherdad, I took your advice and am half way through All the Pretty Horses . So far, so good! I'm also still listening to Shadow of the Wind and (in the words of Maxwell Smart) loooooving it!
I'm listening to Shadow of the Wind and reading All the Pretty Horses .
I've travelled south from Water for Elephants country to Mexico in All the Pretty Horses .
judylou -- don't let anything else distract those peepers from Pretty Horses , it is excellent! As is everything else of McCarthy's I have read, IMHO, of course...
... to Shadow of the Wind in the car and currently reading (and loving) Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen. Next up is All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (unless something else catches my eye!).
... The books are always better of course but, I'd love to see McCarthy's other notable books reach a wider audience. All the Pretty Horses is all right but I don't consider it his best.
Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses is not exactly a traditional western, but it is incredibly good.
The Accidental Tourist - Anne Tyler
All The King's Men- Robert Penn Warren
All The Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy
Of Mice And Men - John Steinbeck
The Verdict - Barry Reed
Billy Bathgate - E. L. Doctorow
Buffalo Soldiers - Robert O'Connor
Even Cowgirls Get The Blues - Tom Ro ...
... The Road, because I am not a fan of apocalyptic fiction. But some of his other work impressed me a great deal. All the Pretty Horses and The Stonemason particularly.
Cormac McCarthy's trilogy-All THe Pretty Horses , THe Crossing and Cities of the Plain...dealing with the soft border that lies between Texas and Mexico.
and for methods of travel:
The Lilac Bus
From a Buick 8
All the Pretty Horses
The Hitchhiker
Gone With the Wind
All The Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy
--> I found The Road by far the best book I've read by Cormac McCarthy. I also read All the Pretty Horses and No Country for Old Men.
... on flights i had lots of time to read, i read The Road and am now halfway through the first part of the border trilogy All The Pretty Horses . Mccarthy is one of the few writers who after i read only one thing by him (no country for old men) i felt that i had to read everything he has ever ...
... The Quiet American which was very interesting.
I'll probably start a Cormac Mccarthy book next, either The Road or All the Pretty Horses
... read books by the same author back to back, but here I am today listening to the CD of No Country for Old Men. I read All the Pretty Horses a while ago but never got to the second and third books of that triology.
Tom Stechshulte is the narrator for the CD of No Country for Old Men, ...
... like his writing style a lot, and I decided to continue on and started reading The Border Trilogy, of which I've completed All the Pretty Horses and about half of The Crossing. I have Cities of the Plain and No Country for Old Men out from the library, which I plan on reading straight ...
#56, I've been looking at The Road recently... I'll have to pick it up sometime.
This weekend I was in Mexico with All the Pretty Horses , also by Cormac McCarthy, and now I'm in Amsterdam (with some memories of Lisbon) in The Coffee Trader by David Liss.
I started reading McCarthy with All the Pretty Horses . I did read Child of God a while back, but it was before I had any personal connection to Tennessee, and I had forgotten that it took place there. Now that I have actually BEEN to Sevier County I reckon I ought to read it again.
... language is far more sparse and the action is more fast paced. While in earlier books like Blood Meridian and , even, All The Pretty Horses many of the paragraphs were filled with imagery and inventive descriptions, his later work is more about bare-boned, page-turning tales of Good v Evil. ...
121- a true classic with nightmarish tales of the old west in USA...his other books are worth it...have you read All THe Pretty Horses (a part of the Crossing Trilogy), The Road, No Country for Old Men ...all are quite good.
... would categorize McCarthy as bleak and violent and this is certainly more true of Blood Meridian than it is of The Road or All The Pretty Horses , the other McCarthy book that I have read. But, as a friend of mine put it concerning Blood Meridian, the book would simply not work in the hands of ...
... is magnificent, but his works are not for the faint of heart. If you haven't read him before, may I suggest you start with All the Pretty Horses ---you might want to ease into him, as it were. His stories get tougher and darker as he gets older.
And for heaven's sake get going on The Lord ...
Or lightning and mountains from All the pretty horses :
"There were storms to the south and masses of clouds that moved slowly along the horizon with their long dark tendrils trailing in the rain. That night they camped on a ledge of rock above the plains and watched the lightning all along the ...
All the pretty horses by Cormac McCarthy
Animal farm by George Orwell
The aye-aye and I by Gerald Durrell
Bear man of Admiralty Island by John R. Howe
Cat and mouse by Gunter Grass
The cat inside by William S. Burroughs
Dog years by Gunter Grass
Heart of a dog by Mikhail ...
... selections like The Shadow of the Wind, The Satanic Verses, Artemis Fowl, Artemis Fowl and the Arctic Incident, All the Pretty Horses , Germinal, Blindness, Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, Persuasion, Anton Chekhov's Selected Plays, Wind in the Willows, ...
... I would go with the Border Trilogy first, in toto longer, but kinder and gentler -- at least try something "light" like All the Pretty Horses first -- I beg you. Although, I don't know your gender -- Maybe men dig the blood sacrifice vibe of Blood Meridian a little more.
To those ...
... sales. In that respect, he is often compared to Cormac McCarthy, who toiled in similar obscurity before the success of All the Pretty Horses . After publication of that novel, McCarthy's earliest works became highly sought after and prohibitively expensive. Woodrell's early works go for a ...
... Deep South category (or similar) that are writing currently ? My favourite authors at the moment are Cormac McCarthy (All the Pretty Horses , Suttree; rather than Blood Meridian and No Country for Old Men), William Gay (Provinces of Night, The Long Home), Kent Haruf (Event ...
I have tons of vintage magazines and leaflets that I would love to find a way to catalog and mark my favorite patterns (I have one with a knitted girdle with a poodle on it). So far the extra work to do it just makes it seem to difficult. Any more info on how ISSNs can be used?
Now that everything is illuminated, what do I win? Possibly possession of a sphere of chocolat. Or maybe all the pretty horses in the world according to garp.
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2. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Rating: 3.5 Stars
John Grady and Rawlins leave Texas and head to Mexico. They meet Blevins and his horse. John Grady meets a girl. A whole lot of ...
