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Pros & Cons
Pros
It has the flavor of an old fairytale. But this time it extends beyond a single character. This novel has great suspense. It also has extremely sad parts in it. Many hints are scattered about.
Of the three works in the border trilogy, the second – the crossing – gets the fainter praise. Both books are equally excellent. These two are good in spite of the cruelty of their world because they decide to be.
Cons
The crossing is tedious and often illogical regarding plot and motives of billy, the protagonist. There are few surprises, not a lively plot and the characters, with few exception are simple. The wolf is a mother and is supposedly carrying around pups... Read More
I am disappointed in cormac mccarthy. Mccarthy is like one of those moralists who go on and on about the decadence of pop culture, until you start to wonder whether prurience is really the motive for their obsession. Mccarthy's writing is noble and wo... Read More
Instead they become thieves themselves. The story is filled with philosophical nonsense, foreign language, and way too much woe. There is also a silly indigenous character with unrealistic dialogue.
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Quality
Although i must confess i find the action less than exciting in these books this is my 2nd in the series i find the stories com... Read More
While in line with the other two in terms of superb worldbuilding and general quality of writing i feel the crossing has the mo... Read More
We are given no good explanations for why billy parham sets out on this course other than a vague sense of his sympathy with th... Read More
On mans relationship with the animal world
Packaging/appearance
With all the sadness it is one of the top books i have read in the the past ten years
Competitiveness
Its played at a lower key than those others
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spanish, novel and first. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
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- This product had a total of 2,176 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 30 2023.
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Basically all the men in mexico want to kill you and steal your horses
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The moral of the story is to just stay out of mexico
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After reading four of cormacs books it is apparent that none have happy endings or make much sense
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For the other type of reader the first time through a good book is just an introduction
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One of the reasons i know that is cormac mccarthy
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Although i was fairly well read by then i had never encountered an author who did to me what all the pretty horses did
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The obscure sentences the lack of quotation marks in dialogue the long segments in spanish untranslated and the word here and there that sent me to the dictionary
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
But i stuck with it long enough to be pulled in
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