Cormac McCarthy: The Crossing

[Shmoove]

This was the second book in his border trilogy and it started out pretty interesting then got pretty boring to wards the end. I was a little disappointed to find out that John Grady (the star in All the Pretty Horses) was not in this book at all. I like my trilogy's to have the same characters in all of them all but thats just me. The book was very sad and I am hoping that the final book Cities of the Plain can somehow have a happy ending but I doubt it having read lots of McCarthy. I have read that in the next book the stars of the two previous books are together so that seems like a kind of a cool idea. So if anyone was thinking of reading the Border Trilogy because they loved The Road or No Country for Old Men I probably wouldn't recommend it. All the books so far seemed a little dragged out and McCarthy constantly goes into huge life stories about minor characters who are only in the book for a few pages. I gets really annoying.

I give it 4 stars out of 10.

 

[lenny nero]

I remember being frustrated by all of the untranlated spanish language, but I remember liking the story better than All the Pretty Horses. It is true about all the back stories on very minor characters. The one I will always remember is the blind guy who got his eyeballs sucked out of his skull.