Search - All the Pretty Horses (Border Trilogy, Vol 1)

Story of a boy's journey from Texas to Mexico. Involves love, laughter, knife fights, horse thievery. Well written Western novel. I enjoyed this a lot - the main character's development and style of prose are both very well done. Contains some Spanish, without translation.

A very enjoyable read. This is the second book written by Cormac Mccarthy (the first being The Road) and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Has the same gritty, matter-of-fact, real qualities that I enjoyed about his other book.

Excellent, descriptive, haunting, evocative of a period between times in our country.

The "cowboy" has been an exoticized icon that equates masculinity with ruggedness in appearance and simplicity of lifestyle...an idyllic image.

For this Los Angeles urbanite, McCarthy successfully extinguishes this pre-determined image in a brutal tale on the hardships of being and living as a cowboy.

I tried to like this book, but finally gave up on it. I rarely do not finish something I begin reading. I think one either enjoys MxcCarthy's style or doesn't.