I forced myself to finish The Passenger. It was much more diffuse than I was expecting. Stella Maris, the 2nd book, was even harder to stay with so I gave up.
It's not McCarthy's prose style or quirks, it's the narrative/conversational asides, discussions on quantum theory and dialogues with hallucinations that I thought led me way off where I thought I was gonna go.
I have not read all of McCarthy, but of his books I have read, The Road, Blood Meridian and No Country for Old Men, seemed to me to be singularly focused and brutal narratives. I liked that very much.
by BigJobsBigJobs