All the Pretty Horses

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Summary: beautifully written, compelling, couldn't put it down
Review: for anyone to say that this book has too much detail (as one reviewer here did) is to say that mozart's music has too many notes...

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Summary: Is he blind, and can he sing?
Review: I do not suggest that I am subject to prescient visions of things to be. However, allow me to assure you that in Year 4999 CE scholars of long forgotten linguistic traditions in unimaginable institutions will examine McCarthy's Border Trilogy for what it might reveal about our age and our fundamental understandings, much as scholars today are transfixed by Homer and Virgil. And while McCarthy may be no more representative of this time and place than Homer was of his, can we hope to be forgiven by the ages to come as unconditionally as we have been by McCarthy?

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Summary: Two Boys becoming men are searcing for independence.
Review: The book was hard to understand at first and slow but after the intro. of all the characters and their life time stories. It had many hidden symbols that would effect us today such as raceisum.

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Summary: McCarthy will stand the test of time as one of the greatest.
Review: For anyone not giving this or any book written by McCarthy, 5 stars, I question their literary competence. McCarthy should be required reading in AP and college literature classes. Comparing total works in literature, he rates being first among contemporaries and equal with the best among all writers of fiction.

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Summary: Absolutely amazing!
Review: This is a major piece of work by a major writer. It is mesmerizing and beautiful. You are so lucky if you have this before you to read for the first time.

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Summary: Believe it or not.....
Review: Cormac McCarthy's "All The Pretty Horses" actually turned out to be a fairly good work. I was recently assigned to read it and (hush hush now) got to the point where I couldn't put the book down, only causing me to finish about a week ahead of the rest of the class. I do frown upon his style just a bit. I had trouble understanding it at times, and often got lost and had to flip back to get the gist of what was happening. But, I will admit it is a very unique style, whether I was confused by it or not. It's his style that serves as one of the man's major trademarks if you ask me. A very good book. If you find yourself with nothing to do one day, this is one of those books you probably want to pick up.

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Summary: OOF!!
Review: I'm only 16 buct I back up each and every thing said in every 5 star rating Damn hot prose and a fantastical if not unconventional approach to writing. Well Done!

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Summary: Good story, too much detail
Review: It was a pretty good story, and I didn't find it as hard to read as some people claimed it to be. There are some parts in which McCarthy put in WAY too much detail though.

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Summary: A great book
Review: I find it amazing that some of the reviews I've read here have found McCarthy's prose difficult.It is his supreme achievement that he is able to intensify his storytelling and brought such vividness and economy to his scenes like no other writer.This is done through a hard, laconic and spare style that allows him to roam and stretch his story into the epic without unnecessary length.In the hands of hacks,this story would have ballooned to 700 pages but McCarthy kept it down to a lean 300 without sacrificing tone.What was it that Hemingway said about prose; that it should be architecture and not interior decorating.This book is verbal cinema on a grand scale.

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Summary: It wasn't as good as some people are claiming
Review: I had to read this book as one of my summer reading assignments for AP English. I doubt I would have even finished this book if I didn't have to. Personally, I was annoyed by McCarthy's style. Many of his sentences would either be really short (especially the dialouge) or a paragraph long. It seemed to me like the author would try to throw in a few really long lines once in a while just to be pretensious. Additionally, the style of the novel (especially the first 15 pages) was confusing. There were shifts in time and setting without even a break in the paragraph. I also didn't understand McCarthy's reasoning for leaving out many punctuation marks including quotation marks, some commas, and apostraphes. I may have been biased against this book from the start though because I don't like reading westerns.