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14 Jan, 2023
Different; may not be for everyone
Not for everyone. CM frequently has main characters go off with virtuoso technical discussions on particle physics and other arcane giants of mathematics that may not be for everyone. This is still readable and can be compelling story lines at times. But, can be off-putting as well.
But, definitely new and different than anything he has written before. The dialogue is "border series" interesting at times, but too often goes from one extreme (simplistic compelling dialogue) to the other (highly technical physics and history of math).
CM can't be easily placed into one genre. The Road, is as different from All the Pretty Horses and Blood Meridian as is possible. The Passenger and Stella Maris are as distinctly different from his past works as can be. Bottom line; there is no predictable Cormac.