A strange sandwich. The first part is Cormac McCarthy excellent, I'd give four stars (only four because I didn't buy into the multiple voices fiction; they all sound a bit too much alike). The second part is plain awful, it's hard to believe it's even written by the same author. I had to fast-forward after the first 100 pages. The third part is solid but still too long even in this condensed version. A rating of 4-1-3 stars boils down to three stars overall. There is a separate, uncondensed version of part one that might be worth checking out, my recommendation would be to skip the rest even though I'm quite fond of the "multiple versions of the same story" concept.