I'm a McCarthy fan and I liked The Passenger/Stella Maris. Usually with McCarthy it takes ~50 pages for me to get into his writing. That wasn't the case this ti

I'm a McCarthy fan and I liked The Passenger/Stella Maris. Usually with McCarthy it takes ~50 pages for me to get into his writing. That wasn't the case this time around, both books are quick, easy reads. McCarthy is at his best when he's describing characters doing things. The few moments in The Passenger when the protagonist is doing things are captivating but 85% of the novel is dialogue (compared to 100% of Stella Maris). The dialogue is great -- it's strange, clever, often funny -- but I found myself wishing there was more characters-doing-things. On the negative side, the math/physics stuff eventually became grating. Also, misattributing "only the dead have seen the end of war" to Plato took me out of the novel.