I really loved it, although I get why some readers and critics are put off. Definitely get those Pynchon / Delillo type conspiracy notes, although it does have some moments that are classic McCarthy prose: > They simply thought that the world had ended. It hardly even occurred to them that it had anything to do with the war. They carried their skin bundled up in their arms before them like wash that it not drag in the rubble and ash and they passed one another mindlessly on their mindless journeyings over the smoking afterground, the sighted no better served than the blind. The news of all this did not even leave the city for two days. Those who survived would often remember these horrors with a certain aesthetic to them. In that mycoidal phantom blooming in the dawn like an evil lotus and in the melting of solids not heretofore known to do so stood a truth that would silence poetry a thousand years. Like an immense bladder, they would say. Like some sea thing. Wobbling slightly on the near horizon. Then the unspeakable noise. They saw birds in the dawn sky ignite and explode soundlessly and fall in long arcs earthward like burning party favors.

Enjoy Stella Maris, it’s good reading too!

I have not read The Passenger, but I've read ~5 other McCarthy books and enjoyed all of them and I'm always excited about McCarthy that I haven't read! How does it compare to his other works that you've read?

I DNFed at 100 pages. It was the densest novel I ever attempted to read.

It reminded me of Suttree and No Country for Old Men, but it's a original and uniquely McCarthy book overall. I was impressed by the scope and the creative approach to story telling.

Oh no! Good job putting it down if it's not your thing.

Great! I thought No Country for Old Men was my favorite McCarthy until I read Suttree. Always happy to find more McCarthy to explore.

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