Cities of the Plain

Mentions per year

What Hacker News says

• f30e3dfed1c9 · Oct 30, 2026 · Recommends

  > Could be that I liked "All The Pretty Horses" even more than "The Road". Have you read the others in the Border Trilogy, The Crossing and Cities of the Plain? If you liked Pretty Horses, you'll probably like them, too. Pretty sure I've read all three twice.

  on “Cormac McCarthy's Library” ↗
• mjrbrennan · Oct 5, 2022 · Recommends

  …becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery. Just finished Cities of the Plain after reading the rest of the border trilogy and not being that impressed, but this one absolutely floored me and I shed tears at the end. Will need to go back and read all three in quick succession at…

  on “Early Cormac McCarthy Interviews Rediscovered” ↗
• bklyn11201 · Jun 13, 2023 · Recommends

  Read The Border Trilogy first (a coming-of-age story set on the US-Mexico border): * All the Pretty Horses * The Crossing * Cities of the Plain Then Blood Meridian and No Country for Old Men.

  on “Cormac McCarthy, Novelist of a Darker America, Is Dead at 89” ↗
• f30e3dfed1c9 · Oct 2, 2025 · Recommends

  …when I got to the end, I didn't even get up from my chair, just went right back to the beginning and started reading it again. I also like the border trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, and Cities of the Plain. Sort of surprisingly, never actually read No Country for Old Men although I've seen the movie three or four times. I think The Road is overrated.

  on “Cormac McCarthy's personal library” ↗
• trentmb · Jun 14, 2018 · Mentions

  …Mockingbird - Lefkowitz, Bernard: Our Guys - Little, Bentley: The Ignored - Maclean, Norman: A River Runs Through It and Other Stories - Maugham, W. Somerset: The Moon and Sixpence - McCarthy, Cormac: Cities of the Plain - McCarthy, Cormac: The Crossing - McCourt, Frank: Angela’s Ashes - McDermott, Alice: Charming Billy - McDevitt, Jack: Ancient Shores - McEwan, Ian: Enduring Love - McEwan, Ian: The Cement…

  on “Stephen King: Can a Novelist Be Too Productive? (2015)” ↗
• sn41 · Oct 5, 2022 · Mentions

  …Meridian", but there was a gruesome scene involving infants. I never saw the point of Judge Holden, even though in my mind, I kept visualizing him being played by Daniel Day-Lewis. My plan is to read "Cities of the Plain" and "Outer Dark" - they are poetic titles, but I wonder whether I should spend the time.

  on “Early Cormac McCarthy Interviews Rediscovered” ↗
• ne8il · Oct 5, 2022 · Mentions

  I think you will find those two novels similar to his other work. Also, there is a book in the Border Trilogy between "All the Pretty Horses" and "Cities of the Plain" - "The Crossing". "Suttree" doesn't come up as often as his other work but is my personal favorite. There are some darker moments but it's a very funny book - a lot of "Charles Portis"-esque conversations…

  on “Early Cormac McCarthy Interviews Rediscovered” ↗