All the Pretty Horses: Border Trilogy 1 (National Book Award Winner)

Over all the minimalistic grammar, while understandably is his style, just made the words fade together. Which just made the long detailed pages boring and redundant. The story is beautiful. I just wished you had spent more time on the characters, specifically secondary ones, instead of rambling on about the settings.

I reread this, or parts of it, frequently and it always provides. If you have come this far to read reviews you need to know this is not the casual read of the typical Western. You need to be ready to have your soul carried across the mesquite, cactus and yucca, surviving on little more than beans, tortillas and desperation just to find that morals and ideals are always relative to the circumstance and that goodness is a combination of things both good and bad. Enjoy.

The struggle of the dreamer, no matter the era, stays the same. Many of life's greatest challenges hinge entirely on histories out of our control. In the pursuit of our own wants we unknowningly face these insurmountable goals and dreams with a level of naivety that is needed to keep pushing forward. The beauty of life does not lie in the goal, but simply lies in our struggles, triumphs, shortcomings, and willingness to persevere to attain our goals. I believe this book is a love letter to those of us out there who continue to pursue our dreams through all of life's adversities.