Week 4 Post B

Dear Cormac McCarthy,

I know for watching your interviews with Opera in L.A. class that you do no google yourself so you will probably never see this. I wanted to start off by analyzing the two books of yours that I have read. All the Pretty Horses and The Road have both won many awards but I feel that they have two different writing styles. Yes, both books use the same method of dialogue but The Road uses shorter sentences and simple metaphors to convey the feelings of the two main characters whereas All the Pretty Horses uses many long and sometimes paragraph-like sentences to describe feelings and setting. Both styles do an excellent job of providing the reader enough information and make the book interesting to read. I was also shocked to see the contrast in settings between the two books. Most writers have a certain era that they prefer to write in and you seem to break the status quo with your books ATPH and The Road. ATPH takes place in the 1900's which is more than one hundred years apart from the setting of The Road and its post-apocalyptic setting. I enjoyed both books, the differences between them and I look forward to reading more of you books in the future.