All the Pretty Horses 1st Edition Hardcover by Cormac McCarthy - Classic Western Novel for Book Collectors & Literature Lovers - Perfect for Home Library Displays & Literary Gift Giving

I really enjoyed this book. If you like McCarthy, I'm pretty sure you'll like this one. Also, if you like Westerns with some literary flair and majestic, poetic landscapes, then this may be a book for you. Fair warning to some folks out there (that may not know much about McCarthy): the prose is Faulkner-esque. He likes his long sentences, and stupendous words, and even can be a little confusing about chronology. But I sort of didn't like Faulkner and love McCarthy. Somehow, I find McCarthy much easier to understand and read. To me, his writing is like poetry (in the best sense of that phrase). It's majestic, real, creative, and put a grin on my face because he's so good at constructing sentences in unexpected ways. He uses words in ways that would've never occurred to me but works better than a simpler sentence would. To me, it's sort of like Shakespeare. High praise, I know, and plenty would disagree, but for me he's one of the best writers working today. He's just so impressive -- it's like watching the best athlete of his/her generation at peak performance.Also, this book is not as dark as other McCarthy novels. I found that refreshing. It's much more an adventure novel. It has some great quotes too that I had to write down after I read them. Just two of my favorites, that encapsulate the two animating emotional cores in this book (simple, old Western matter of factness and beautiful, poetic, imagery):“[S]cared money can’t win and a worried man can’t love.”“He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. . . . The world’s pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for the vision of a single flower.”All that being said, I don't think this is one of McCarthy's best. There were a few scenes that lacked creativity. That's not much criticism, but McCarthy sets the bar pretty high for himself. Especially when a book like The Road is perfect throughout. That book is such a flawless piece of writing. Every single word of that book is in the absolute best and only place it should be.