Will's Reviews > Stella Maris

It pains me to give an author like McCarthy two stars, very different from my four-star rating of The Passenger. My reaction to that book was, like the novel, all over the place. At times I was irritated and bored and times I was totally engaged and finding so very much to admire. Not so here, not for me anyway. What interests McCarthy did not interest me at all, and for me it quickly began to feel self-indulgent and, dare I say, somewhat pretentious. While others seem to find a deeper meaning in it all, I found that I really didn’t care.