Should You Pass On The Passenger and Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy?

The Passenger
Knopf, 2022
383 pages

Stella Maris
Knopf, 2022
190 pages

[randyrodriguez]

These are novels written by a man in his 80s, clearing out the remaining threads of his creative processes. Less interested in plot, more interested in conversation. It took a me a 2nd and 3rd read of The Passenger for it to open up more fully. It’s more of a journey into tragedy, of mental illness, of illicit love and of living life in the legacy of the hydrogen bomb. A man of McCarthys age is more interested in rumination than in plot advancement and a reader half his age is likely to wonder why.

[badrad]

Thank you Greg, this was a great review. I probably won’t read this book. Due to the review .
The front cover is capturing.

[BookishTexan]

Great assessment of both books and who they will appeal to. I think they are the kind of books I am mostly done with. I honestly cant see how that other reviewer thinks that The Passenger is McCarthy's best.

[bighardbooks]

_First!_ I _didnt_ DNF 'em, but I took them back to the library 😂 IMA wait till my LIBBY free audio comes up, then get the books, February is do damned busy, for me! Brian @Bookish didnt like them, either. A CODA, ah? 🤔 Im _still_ gonna read it! Someday 😳

[BandysBooks]

Great reviews. I’m not sure whether your description of this makes me want to read it more or less. On one hand, it sounds quite interesting, but on the other it sounds like it might be more work than I want to put into fun reading. 😅

[baxtermaxtor]

The Tha-lid-O-myde kid at the start did not work as a character or an imagined concept for me, maybe I should have kept reading though....

[MriInterocitor]

Did you ever see Katherine Bigelow’s film Strange Days? It takes up turn-of-the-millennium fears of police and political conspiracy and does something really interesting thing with them. I suspect you’d like it a lot.

[MikeWiest]

You should tell us if you have read and liked any other McCarthy…?

[TheBookclectic]

Well these do not sound like my kind of books 😕.