No Country for Old Men (Vintage International) by Cormac McCarthy (EPUB)

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From the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road comes a “profoundly disturbing and gorgeously rendered” novel (The Washington Post) that returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of the famed Border Trilogy. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law—in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell—can contain. As Moss tries to evade his pursuers—in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives—McCarthy simultaneously strips down the American crime novel and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning’s headlines. No Country for Old Men is a triumph.Look for Cormac McCarthy’s new novel, The Passenger, coming October ’22.

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⭐As a stand-alone book, it’s a terrific read in its own right. (See other reviews for the great plot, characters, etc.) What I wish I’d known before buying, though: there is very little difference between the book and the 2007 movie of the same title (which won Best Picture at that year’s Academy Awards). That the movie-makers (Joel and Ethan Coen) found that they could just lift the screenplay from the book– nearly without edits– is a big credit to the author: McCarthy’s imagery, dialog, descriptions of landscapes and people, and plot-pacing (and much more) made embellishment by the movie-makers barely necessary. So as a huge fan of the movie, I grabbed the book hoping to get more of the back-story around the main characters (especially Chigurh) and sew-up a few plot-holes– the kind of details I imagine movie directors and editors must cut out to keep the movie to a ~2-hr running-time. While I was disappointed (in that respect) after reading the book, that’s not at all a criticism. Great Book. 5-stars. Just don’t expect it to be a “deeper dive” into the story as told by the movie.

⭐This book is built around the premise that any one of us can think we are making a good decision only to later find out the depths of how bad that decision actually was. Llewelyn Moss chose to take a suitcase full of money from a drug deal gone bad, thinking he would never get caught…and it all goes downhill from there.This was my first Cormac McCarthy book, suggested by a friend who well knows my penchant for Strunk and White’s “The Elements of Style.” Commas are a rare breed, and quotation marks were extinct long before this book was written. Even so, the author’s style is fairly easy to understand, and the story drives this book anyhow. The down-home conversations reveal a lot about the characters, and the interludes with Sheriff Bell (where it seems as if he is speaking directly to us) tell us everything we want to know about the man, and more.Mr. McCarthy balances multiple characters, allowing each to share the main stage and have their moment to shine as the book races to an unexpected climax. The plot examines motivations, particularly why different people make different decisions and the underlying currents that cause or force them to continue, right or wrong, to embrace whatever path was chosen. These moments are very revealing, and it is interesting to view each character’s interpretation of what is ethical behavior. This is not a speed read. The author’s style arm-twists us into slowing down, and for that I am grateful. Five stars.

⭐Unfortunately, I watched the movie prior to reading the book and I have to admit the book holds its own to a superb Coen Brothers film. McCarthywrites a hard, cold, mean prose almost devoid of heroes. He juxtaposes good, decent ordinary human beings up against the 21st centuries’ Hannibal Lecter only this psychopath has absolutely no charm nor charisma nor overpowering intellect. Anton Chigur is a psychopath with only one saving grace; he is as relentlessly ruthless and savage as death. Read the book and maybe you’ll root for the sheriff or the man who stole the dope deal gone bad’s brief case full of drug money. It is a truly remarkable and enjoyable book.. The 20th century had Hannibal Lecter, a suave and brilliant psychopath. The 21st century has Anton Chigur, a frozen creature without even a hint of a soul. Take your pick: charm and great taste or the bloodless soulless threat of a great white shark on the hunt.

⭐I greatly enjoyed this book. The writing style is unique, the story believable. The story is disturbing and it is a credit to the author that his tale can be realistic and intriguing enough to frighten the reader. We live in violent and increasingly lawless times, with corruption of law enforcement, DAs, and judges becoming commonplace, all while being a good cop can be fatal.

⭐What more can I say about this book that hasn’t already been said? This is an incredible book. I read The Road prior to this book and it’s difficult to say which is my favorite. Both are fantastic. I read the parts of Sheriff Ed Tom Bell in Tommy Lee Jones’ voice because I just can’t think of anyone else who would’ve been better cast in that role. And Mr. Chigurh is truly a psychopath in this book. A wonderful contrast to the aging sheriff.

⭐I loved this book. From start to finish. If you have already read any McCarthy then you will be familiar with his style. It seems to be the reason afew people have given it lower ratings I’ve noticed. If this is the first book of McCarthys you have ever read I could see being a little confused. You get used to it, and I think this is a great jumping off point for people wanting to try one of his books. My only complaint is that it will forever be compared to the film adaptation, which is also great. It’s just hard to have a conversation with someone about the story without it eventually coming back around to talk of the movie.

⭐The story of a sheriff in Texas. Really though, the story of a man who is a sheriff. Universal good and evil, and the changing times. The movie doesn’t tell the story – that’s typically anything that comes out of Hollywood. This is real. A realism in dialog between people, and in inner dialog.

⭐Start to finish page burner–great pacing, good breaks and twists, believable, pressurized. McCarthy doesn’t stop to explain–bring your attention and know that your coffee will be cold before you take a second sip, and the ice will melt in your whiskey if your reading after dinner. Expect the Sherriff and the bad guy to reprise these roles in the future so listen up. Enjoy!

⭐This modern western, set in 1980 in the Badlands of western Texas, a world made familiar by Cormac McCarthy’s other books, is quite simply a masterpiece of minimalist storytelling, a work of morality conveyed in sparse dialogue that sets a tale of compromised good versus calculating evil against the background of the fading promise of America made plain by the nightmare of Vietnam, its aftermath, and societal descent into drugs. It is a portrait of a world in pain, and a portent of the opioid addicted and crime-ridden small town America of today.The novel is framed by the thoughts of the aging and upright Sheriff Ed Tom Bell, a man of integrity and simplicity haunted by past errors, faced by an increasingly violent society which he struggles to understand and which is incompatible with the purer, more moral world of his memory and family lore. Bell is a man adrift, but also a man whose self-awareness provides a nuanced perspective upon the brutal and murderous drug trade which has infected his county and brought horrific death to his doorstep. Bell might not know why men do the wrongs they do, but he tries hard to understand what leads them down paths that will lead to their destruction, although recognising that whatever his efforts, he cannot prevent others from that rendezvous with death their choices will bring. But Bell’s empathy and compassion provide no guide when faced with the amoral killing machine, Anton Chigurch, an evil demiurge, part Biblical demon, part classical representation of Nemesis. Chigurch is Fate made human for those who come into his realm of death and retribution, even those innocent of wrongdoing, whose violent end is but collateral damage in a world where violence not only begets violence, but where violence and mortality are mere events in an inevitable process of reckoning.The tone, as usual with McCarthy, is laconic and elegiac, with beautifully drawn characters, whose moral reality is clear in their words and their actions. It is a novel written with beautiful simplicity about a world made complex by the failures of men to stay true to the simple truths that experience has revealed as the best basis for a better world.This is a profoundly moral and thoughtful book that is a worthy entry in the canon of great American novels, and Cormac McCarthy is one of the great American novelists.

⭐Extraordinary prose. A cannot put down book. Gritty & cruel, everything you would hope won’t happen does.Characterisations of the three main protagonists wonderful.Even the ending leaves you with the thought, did they get the right man.That’s the reality of life. Ninety one percent of books leave you feeling good, “right has prevailed over might”.This one tells the way things really are, evil can & does prevail despite our best wishes.Finally, a wonderful discussion on social trends over the generations.

⭐I found this a struggle to work through. Things like not having quotation marks around speech, very slight & fleeting references to people & places in a scene, lack of clarity about who was speaking in a dialogue. The story didn’t have much for me either but the effort involved in trying to work out what was meant probably didn’t help.

⭐This book again shows how many brilliant writers there is out there this is dare I say it a classic it has everything suspense drama brilliant dialogue and above all a subtle menace about it that keeps you hooked. The rich Texas accent and phrases shine through a give the book even more character it just works on every level for me. I loved it but it did also make me think that there is a big bad world out there and some very strange people in it, scary man.

⭐I hadn’t watched the film beforehand. Came into this without context and the author does very little to fill that in. Multiple references to him/he or her/she at the beginning of chapters without explaining who they are. Locations not explained, timeframes often missing especially at the beginning when it’ll just be 2.30 not explaining whether it’s AM or PM (not useful as you don’t know anything about the characters or the story by this point). Still don’t know if all the start of chapter monologues are from the same character or not. They go off into rambles that might have made ore sense if I’d know who was giving them but then again I’m not going to give that much credit.I wanted to give up several times and actually wish I had because I took virtually nothing from finishing this read. Utterly frustrating and a waste of time.

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