Cormac McCarthy

A man tells his sister that the child she bore him is dead, but learning it is alive, she searches the woods for her lost son

Outer Dark

Outer Dark is a novel at once fabular and starkly evocative, set is an unspecified place in Appalachia, sometime around the turn of the century. A woman bears her brother's child, a boy; he leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brother's lie, she sets forth alone to find her son. Both brother and sister wander separately through a countryside being scourged by three terrifying and elusive strangers, headlong toward an eerie, apocalyptic resolution.

Tobias V. Langhoff

Another dark book from McCarthy about people who unhappily roam the Southern US. An incestuous relationship in the redneck Appalachian country sends two illiterate siblings on separate journeys to find what they have lost. Their karma decides their fate along the way.

The first audiobook I’ve heard by Ed Sala, and to my untrained ears he really nails the dialect.

The Outer Dark

Coleman McCormick

Outer Dark sorta makes the other McCarthy books I've read look like happy time (The Road, No Country). Though there are few characters and little activity, McCarthy keeps the suspense up through to the end.

Just an exquisite book. The beginning is tremendously atmospheric. The characters are intentionally underspoken throughout the novel which forces the reader to rely on the impact of their presence which Cormac did an excellent job on capturing in such a captivating way. The story is clever and original. My only qualm is that the middle of the book can be a drag. The end is near perfect and wonderfully poetic 

Michael Springer

There were some elements of this book I liked quite a bit. The characters stumble through a dangerous world peopled by eccentrics who are, often as not, dangerous. The book builds to a surprising and dark conclusion that, in my opinion, disappointed. 

I really enjoy the work of this author. But, this is an earlier and weaker offering than what I've read by him before.

Celia Adams

Cormac McCarthy reads like my pretentious English professor acts- like he thinks he so smart and better than everyone else just because he doesn't follow pop culture and used ambiguity and no context. I'd give him no stars if that was an option

Outer Dark

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