No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy (Epub)

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In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of his 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.

User’s Reviews

“Profoundly disturbing and gorgeously renderedÉ. The most accessible of all his works.” –Washington Post“A narrative that rips along like hell on wheels [in a] race with the devil [on] a stage as big as Texas.” –The New York Times Book

Reviews from Amazon users, collected at the time the book is getting published on UniedVRG. It can be related to shiping or paper quality instead of the book content:

⭐ 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.

⭐ 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.

⭐ 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.

⭐ 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.

⭐ I was impressed by all the author’s gun research, and the action scenes worked well for me; the story itself I found tedious, unfortunately. The characters all sounded like the same person, and that person was a crude stereotype of rural Texans. And the story just stops without any kind of actual ending. Weird. It also got tiresome how every character has godlike intuition and the same superhuman deductive powers as Sherlock Holmes. I can see how this story might appeal to right-wingers who are big on guns, blame foreigners for America’s problems, cherish marriage, and cling to an ideal of America’s past from the mid-19th century, because the book came off as a paean to conservative ideology … for others who don’t hold those views, I don’t think it will be particularly interesting. Oh, also, the un-punctuated and rough, half-formed sentences I found very contrived. I read that this book was originally a screenplay, and I wonder if the author was simply too lazy to rewrite it properly and used malformed sentences to save time with editing.

⭐ What makes this novel so unsettling is how accurately McCarthy portrays contrasting elements of society/culture today. The Sheriff can’t fathom the new breed of evil that has thrust itself to the top of the food chain. There is an all-too-thin veneer that separates Order and Anarchy and Sheriff Bell sees it crumbling fast, and is unsure that it can stem the tide. A fantastic read and not just for the overall themes. The dialog is well worth the price of admission.

⭐ 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.

⭐ A horrible, but mindly, killer stalks various characters throughout the book, most of whom did not deserve the death he delivered. The most unlucky lucky man was among the first. His teenage wide was among the last, but also maybe the most innocent. A disturbingly fabulous novel.

⭐ … I recently ordered Showtime just so I could watch the Go-Go’s documentary, and have been too lazy to cancel it. I can’t really complain because it’s been my luck to have the opportunity to watch two of my all time favorites, Sinister, and the Best Picture for 2007, No Country for Old Men.Why I adore the Coen Brothers masterpiece should come as no surprise. I thoroughly enjoyed their other classics: Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, and Fargo. Unfortunately, I have not sought out their Barton Fink (1991), with John Turturro. All will stand the test of time.I never read a Cormac McCarthy book although I’d heard of his Pulitzer Prize winner, The Road.I’m glad I didn’t read No Country for Old Men prior to seeing the movie. Perhaps I would’ve been disappointed but not knowing the fates of the characters prior to, catered to my need for emotional investment.What led up to Llewellyn’s demise in a seedy hotel in El Paso? How was Carla Jean killed? Or was she? Carla Jean was How Old?! Although Woody ate up the scenery, was Carson Wells’ singular moment captured in a chair? And where was he shot? And who was in the station wagon that plowed into Chigurh?These questions and more, are answered in McCarthy’s somber retelling of a drug deal gone wrong that sets off a murderous chain of events.What I learned by reading the book: One, it was written as a screenplay. Two, McCarthy doesn’t use punctuation which may have led to such a quick read since I was already familiar.It was fun to recall dialogue from the movie:Where’d you get that pistol?At the gettin place.If I don’t come back tell Mother I love her.Your mother’s dead Llewellyn.Well I’ll tell her myself then.I got a bad feeling, Llewellyn.Well, I got a good one. So they ought to balance out.Sir I aint at liberty to give out no information about our residents.Where does he workDid you not hear me? We can’t give out no information…. and yes, I read it in their voices.

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