![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I just couldn’t take any more of this story that I didn’t care about. Sad to say, I made it to 80% of the book and DNF’d. A budding romance, a warning from the mother to stay away, all the makings of a great love affair – except there was zero romance or even chemistry between the characters, as it was written. But I digress.Īt the new ranch in Mexico there is, of course, a beautiful daughter of the ranch owner that the MC is attracted to. This essay on Cormac McCarthy ran in the Boston Sunday Globe upon the release of the film version of All the Pretty Horses (2001). Oops! But either way, it seemed silly to leave your own ranch and go so far away, unprepared for your trip just to get to another ranch to work. Now I might have missed why they left because I was REALLY bored or they may not have said why, I can’t really tell you. A bit later, the main character, a 17-year old son of a rancher, takes his friend riding on horseback from Texas to Mexico, where they locate work on another ranch. Ranchers sitting in a diner talking about unimportant things. The beginning starts off very slow and seems somewhat aimless. The audiobook has proven that the issue is not the movie. But sometimes movies don’t translate well from books. I watched this movie a long, long time ago and don’t recall anything from it other than I thought it was boring and didn’t like it. We earn a small commission if you purchase the book through this link.Īfter reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy in January and being so impressed, I thought I’d pick up another of his books right away. All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy #1) ![]()
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