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Shortest Book
152
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Longest Book
970
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Average book length in
2024
318
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Sol’s first review of the year
it was amazing
I think this is my seventh reading of the book, second time on audio—narrated by Robert Ingles (1990). It’s as perfect as a book gets, and it’s astounding that the next two are as good. Many is the kid who felt like it started too slowly, or wanted to give up just a little at The Counsel of Elrond, only to later return to both those parts and see how beautifully wrought they are within the full narrative. It’s the perfect book around Christmas an
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Sol’s last review of the year
really liked it
This is my second time reading this book, and I’m moving my review from 3-star to 5-star, which is maybe the biggest jump I’ve made upon a second reading. I’m not sure what I missed the first time, or if I’m just in a better place or what. It’s a tremendous work, full of emotion and pain and beauty and all the things McCarthy does so dang well. It’s a Western, for sure, but very contemporary. Taking place in the 1940s, it’s not of the traditional ...more
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