The Passenger, Cormac McCarthy

 Well it's no "The Road" nor "No Country For Old Men".

Yes yes it's a massive MacGuffin, opening with finding a crashed plane underwater with something key missing and a government conspiracy to hush it up -- which then morphs into, well, not much of much, really.

Yes yes it's all about philosophical musings on life and death and everything in between, and it's not hard to treat it as a dying McCarthy wanting to get his thoughts out on paper and publish it for the world to see.

The problem is, the MacGuffin plot is actually very intriguing and just abandoning it stinks of actually having no ideas about how it would resolve and just dribbling off into a stream of crap.

Sorry.

Not sorry.

At this late stage in his life what he really needed was an editor to say "this is crap, follow the plot" rather than "oh your words shine like gold".

By the end, the book was a relief to get out of the way rather than a joy to finish.