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No Country for Old Men

Cormac McCarthy

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Mar 21, 2011 Kecia rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: general_fiction

I wasn't sure I could stomach more Cormac McCarthy. He's tough to swallow. No Country for Old Men certainly is not his best work but it may be the most disturbing.

First, as a Texan, I have to say he didn't get the language of Texas right. It was Tenneesse, it was Georgia maybe, but not Texas. As a result, I had trouble with the story. I've been to all the places in story and I didn't feel like McCarthy captured the vastness of the place. Texas is big. I just didn't feel it. I think he was off t ...more

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Jun 04, 2010 Jessica rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I loved this creepy tale about a "new breed of man" who is purely evil, with no concern about right and wrong. The book has all the feeling of being a post-apocalyptic novel, but part of what makes it so unsettling is the fact that there hasn't been an apocalypse. End up in the wrong place at the wrong time, and a man with a cattle gun might just start hunting YOU.

I occasionally struggled to follow the narrative, but most of the time the terse prose works perfectly to create a sense of both the ...more

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Jan 04, 2013 Rae rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2013, westerns

What would you do if you found a lot of cash just sitting there for the taking? Would you steal it? Or leave it be? Llewelyn Moss has to make that decision and his choice sets in motion extraordinary evil circumstances which spiral completely out of control. McCarthy seems to be examining a lot of societal and religious issues--the drug wars and our complicity in them, money, evil, morality, family duty, war (especially Vietnam), truth, love, destiny, fate--in this extremely violent story.

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Sep 18, 2007 Ryan rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction, favorite-authors

It had been a good six or seven years since I'd read any Cormac, so I wasn't too sure what to expect when I picked this book up. Now that I've finished it, I think I'd rank it as my favorite one.

Easily his best dialogue, less time spent on imagery and more focused on plot, I found myself not wanting to put it down.

If you read this book, and find yourself enjoying it, go see the movie coming out this fall. It's amazingly faithful. ...more

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