Title: Too much Spanish!
Product review: I looked forward to reading this book, since I considered "The Road" great and really enjoyed the breath taking description in"All the Pretty Horses"and "Cities of the Plain." However, I am so disappointed in "The Crossing" I doubt that I will even finish reading it.A major complaint is that there is way too much Spanish. I early on stopped even trying to decipher the meaning and just skipped those passages, which are very numerous and sometimes a paragraph or two in length. What is probably an attempt to provide local color becomes merely irritating for those who do not know Spanish. (And I've yet to figure out what Mr. McCarthy has against punctuation.)The interminable mountains and rivers which, after all, cannot differ much from each other, get pretty tedious after a while, too. As do the stories and philosophizing from people met on the journey. After a couple hundred pages, my feeling is let's get on with it! ( It being the saga of Billy and Boyd.)
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