The Passenger Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Cormac McCarthy
SCORE
3.5
TOTAL RATINGS
504

The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy Book Summary

The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the first of a two-volume masterpiece: The Passenger is the story of a salvage diver, haunted by loss, afraid of the watery deep, pursued for a conspiracy beyond his understanding, and longing for a death he cannot reconcile with God.

Look for Stella Maris, the second volume in The Passenger series, on sale December 6th, 2022

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wet suit and plunges from the Coast Guard tender into darkness. His dive light illuminates the sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their seats, hair floating, eyes devoid of speculation. Missing from the crash site are the pilot’s flight bag, the plane’s black box, and the tenth passenger. But how? A collateral witness to machinations that can only bring him harm, Western is shadowed in body and spirit—by men with badges; by the ghost of his father, inventor of the bomb that melted glass and flesh in Hiroshima; and by his sister, the love and ruin of his soul.
 
Traversing the American South, from the garrulous barrooms of New Orleans to an abandoned oil rig off the Florida coast, The Passenger is a breathtaking novel of morality and science, the legacy of sin, and the madness that is human consciousness.

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Book Name The Passenger
Genre Fiction & Literature
Published
Language English
E-Book Size 2.26 MB

The Passenger (Cormac McCarthy) Book Reviews 2024

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Strangely Unsatisfying. Beautiful prose, like a poem. Interesting facts and plots that never materialize. Missing pieces throughout. Left me tired.

Goated. “In the spring of the year birds began to arrive on the beach from across the gulf. Weary passerines. Vireos. Kingbirds and grosbeaks. Too exhausted to move. You could pick them up out of the sand and hold them trembling in your palm. Their small hearts beating and their eyes shuttering. He walked the beach with his flashlight the whole of the night to fend away predators and toward the dawn he slept with them in the sand. That none disturb these passengers.”

Very strange book. Couldn’t stop reading this book because it was hard to follow. The author has a wonderful vocabulary. The twist and turns of the plot made the reader think, “Where is this going?” No

Be mine?!!. I couldn’t say no! To you. Hermosa Vida. Hermosa… mia… mi vida vida…. beautiful life. Mine you’ll be…. Call me later….. 5829…. Baeee…

Amazing. Just finished both books. — Amazing.

Too complex and hard to read. Sorry to have bought this book. Was unable to get through it as it was hard to read and understand the plot. Maybe it gets better later but could not sustain my interest.

It’s complicated….. I’m a big Cormac McCarthy fan but this one almost broke me. It’s not an easy read by any means. The vocabulary is dense, the physics and mathematics references are challenging for those not well-versed in these subjects, and I personally found the chapters written from the viewpoint of the main character’s sister somewhat tedious. All that being said, I’m still glad I read this and plan to read the follow-up that is soon to be released. (I have read that it clarifies many details and questions from this novel.) McCarthy is one of our most talented living writers IMO, and I’d pretty much read anything he writes, but don’t expect Blood Meridian, The Road, or The Border Trilogy; this is much different.

Well,Well. I won’t pretend I understood it at an intellectual level, but I like the way his books rearrange the connections between old neurons. His prose, images and rhythms pick the reader up like a great wave that rolls on with you.

Disappointing. I've read all of McCarthy's novels (the hardcover n this case). With The Passenger, he is just showing off to no worthwhile or consistent purpose. Somewhere in here is a 200-ish page novel that would work. Occasional brief passages highlight his abilities. However, McCarthy's editor needed to reign in his meandering story to achieve greater impact.

The weight of things. This is a story about love and death.

Excruciatingly bad. This book was, by far, the worst gargantuan word salad ever printed. While I get what the author was probably trying to say, the “story” read like he was copying a vast ocean of rarely used words, mixing them up in a giant verbal blender, and puking them onto a page. Even I could do that. The word processor had to have been hacked by extraterrestrials. I thoroughly enjoyed the author’s “The Road”. What happened? I wish I could get a refund for this dog’s breakfast.

A tough read. This novel is grim, tough, almost unbearably hopeless. If prone to depression don't read this - it's heady, if you're not smart it makes you look things up.

Depressing. Long and tiresome. So not my favorite.

Just finished. I just finished, and need some time to let the novel sit with me, but it’s an incredible work I plan on revisiting many times

Astonishing. This was my first McCarthy experience. I picked it up on a whim. It was exceedingly difficult and equally rewarding. I had to pause every few pages to reflect, sometimes multiple times a page, which is atypical for for the usual kinds of books I read, mostly page-turners. It’s been a couple days since I’ve finished it but it’s still haunting, still in the back of my mind telling me to slow down and look around. I loved it but it’s certainly not for everybody.

The Passenger. A real tour de force. Highlighted by exotic vocabulary, insights into disturbed minds and relationships, mathematics, quantum physics, salvage diving, New Orleans food and beverage hot spots, travel through Western States and living in the West, sexual orientation, the power of the IRS, and much more. A truly entertaining read with a haunting and time release power of subsequent review.

I’m going to miss Cormac. An incredible book by a great American author

Not just dark but confusing. I can’t say I really understood this book. The main character who, still in love with his dead sister, Wanders aimlessly among his many and varied acquaintances while seemingly being hunted by some unknown government entity. Perhaps it was just over my head, but I found it tedious and uninspiring. And I am usually a huge fan of Cormac McCarthy.disappointed

The Passenger. Both books are fantastic!

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Summary of The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy

The The Passenger book written by Cormac McCarthy was published on 25 October 2022, Tuesday in the Fiction & Literature category. A total of 504 readers of the book gave the book 3.5 points out of 5.

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