Christine Calabrese’s Reviews > All the Pretty Horses > Status Update

A writer who can break all the rules of grammatical convention and hold your attention. There's a reason Cormac MeCarthy gets accolades, the credit is well-deserved. He is polished without the glitter; he makes writing look easy- it's not, and I know it. Some write others breath with their pen, this guy does the latter. I can only hope to garner a few tips from reading the book.

You can put this book down and pick it up later; a few weeks can go by, and yet the book is easy to read and follow.

Some complain about the Spanish, the lack of punctuation, but I read this to see what a great writer can do, and this writer hits the top! He writes long sentences, but the sentence flows; he disobeys the rules or bends them, and it works.

Off to a fantastic start, excellent writing style. Sentences that are coupled into paragraphs for good reason... A train, descriptions are vivid. So far so good, I'm in, I dropped Ivanhoe, I just can't get through it. Thank goodness my husband found this book!