A review by emily_miller
All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy

4.0

I tried to read this book but Mr. McCarthy’s writing style was much too frustrating so I got the audiobook instead. His paragraph-long sentences and lack of punctuation was just too hard to get past for this journalism major. To listen to, however, it is a good story, though certainly not a happy one. Mr. McCarthy’s description of the country is beautiful and makes me want to take a horseback ride through west Texas. Not much is told about the supporting characters but we get to know John Grady personally and his forced rapid coming-of-age hurt my heart. He was really just a boy dealing with very adult things. In the end, his riding off into the sunset was sad but understandable.