All the Pretty Horses is the second book by Cormac McCarthy book I’ve read, and this author’s prose is like poetry. He really has a way with describing scenes of the countryside, the love of horses, and the tragedy of a man’s destiny within a blind, or indifferent, universe.

The story focuses on …

Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West, by Cormac McCarthy, is worth your time, but is probably not a book for the faint of heart. I really enjoyed the story, though I have to feel a little guilty for saying so. The scenery itself is like another of the characters, and all characters …

I really enjoyed The Green Man, by Kingsley Amis. It starts out as some sort of English comedy — a guy who owns a pub has a drinking problem, has health problems, has a marriage problem, has a mistress problem, and has children problems, then suddenly starts seeing ghosts.

Of course no one believes …