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No Country for Old Men
 

No Country for Old Men (Vintage International)

by Cormac McCarthy

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... (read more)

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jmadigan
  • Rated 4 stars

“I've said before that I would hate to be a character in a John Steinbeck novel, but I think it would be worse to be one in a Carmac McCarthy story. Sure, Steinbeck's characters often end up getting mauled, shot, or starved to death, but those are still better odds than most of the folks between the front and back covers of McCarthy's books. And No Country for Old Men is no exception.

Where The Road was a kind of sci-fi horror story and Blood Meridian was kind of...”

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  • Rated 4.073446 stars
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  • Rated 3.714286 stars
  

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  • FARZANEH

    farzaneh said:

    “i,m not reading this book but i watch film that has same name. i don,t know they have same story or no? but that film which taken The oscar in 2007, was very beautifull.”

    posted Wednesday, June 11 2008 ( | view 1 reply )
  • Susan W

    susan w said:

    “I enjoyed the concise writing style, (which reminded me of a less poetic Elie Wiesel) but the lack of information made me slow down to figure out what was going on. Or rather, who was doing the actions as the use of pronouns instead of names was frequent. I think this added to the reading experience, but I'm not sure.

    I saw the movie first, which partially helped me understand what was happening, and partially hurt because Chigur is different in the book than in the movie and I had trouble getting away from the movie concept of him.

    Sherrif Bell's portrayal made me empathize with him far more than any other character, probably because he's the only one who seems to connect with the reader directly.”

    posted Thursday, April 24 2008 ( | view 1 reply )
  • 'arisi

    'arisi said:

    “strong and powerful!!!! yea a great one. ”

    posted Wednesday, April 2 2008
  • Sally W

    sally w said:

    “I could not get into this book which is very unusual for me. I have put it aside for a try another day.”

    posted Sunday, March 30 2008 ( | view 1 reply )
  • John T

    john t said:

    “Near as I can figure, "parabellum" means something along the lines of "military issue" -- "para-" meaning "for" and "bellum" meaning "war."

    "You need to put that in your files."”

    posted Tuesday, November 13 2007
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