Cormac Mcarthy, All the Pretty Horses has been on my to listen to list for a while now. He also wrote No Country For Old Men as well, the movie was pretty good too.
I do love a good Western. If you get a chance, listen to the audiobook for Lonesome Dove, or watch the 1989 miniseries; it's pretty faithful to the book as well. My absolute favorite western of all time.
The book begins with a great quote. “All America lies at the end of the wilderness road, and our past is not a dead past, but still lives in us. Our forefathers had civilization inside themselves, the wild outside. We live in the civilization they created, but within us the wilderness still lingers. What they dreamed, we live, and what they lived, we dream.”
The author originally set out to 'deconstruct' the American western and accidentally wrote one of the best westerns yet writ.
I do love a good Western. If you get a chance, listen to the audiobook for Lonesome Dove, or watch the 1989 miniseries; it's pretty faithful to the book as well. My absolute favorite western of all time.
The book begins with a great quote. “All America lies at the end of the wilderness road, and our past is not a dead past, but still lives in us. Our forefathers had civilization inside themselves, the wild outside. We live in the civilization they created, but within us the wilderness still lingers. What they dreamed, we live, and what they lived, we dream.”
The author originally set out to 'deconstruct' the American western and accidentally wrote one of the best westerns yet writ.
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
“He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
“So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the hard lesson. Nothing can be dispensed with. Nothing despised. Because the seams are hid from us, you see. The joinery. The way in which the world is made. We have no way to know what could be taken away. What omitted. We have no way to tell what might stand and what might fall.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing
“Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing