All the Pretty Horses

All the Pretty Horses Essay

All The Pretty Horses in my opinion was not a very good book. The reason why I dislike the book so much is mostly due to the way the book was written. It is written in a way which uses way too many pronouns like he, she, and their. This makes the story unclear, especially in the beginning, which makes a reader like me loose interest in the book right away. The story was pretty good itself, but the way it is presented is absolutely horrible.

To point out an example, I picked a passage out of the book on page 11 that shows how confusing the way it was written really is. "If you had the money, would you buy it? The boy said. I had the money and I didn't. You mean your backpay from the army? No. Since then. What's the most you ever won? You don't need to know. Learn bad habits. Why don't I bring the chessboard up some afternoon? I ain't got the patience to play. You got the patience to play poker. That's different. What's different about it? Money is what's different about it. They sat."

I think this passage is a perfect example of how poorly written this book is. In any other book, the author would've stated something like "Rawlins said" or "John Cole stated". However the author chooses to just write with pronouns as in the majority of the book. In this passage he uses the word "You" five times, the word "I" three times, and the word "They" once. Never do they use the names of the characters in this passage and that makes it unclear. Clarity is the most important parts of a book. Hence, this was not a great or good book at all.