OK, so I didn’t really plan to read two McCarthy novels in a row, but I ditched the Salman Rushdie book about a hundred pages in. So instead I catch up on McCarthy. Superlatives fail me. Not a complex plot, but beautifully written and picturesque in a way you rarely find. I can understand why they rate McCarthy as one of the top American authors. Good stuff.

On one hand, it feels like if I'm not rating a McCarthy book highly, it's a shortcoming on my part, not his. And yet it doens't feel like top-tier McCarthy. Still distinctly his voice, but not quite in the tier of his classics.