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No Country for Old Men | 
 enlarge | Author: Cormac Mccarthy
Publisher: Vintage
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  410 reviews
Sales Rank: 15716
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 309
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 0375706674
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780375706677
ASIN: 0375706674
Publication Date: July 1, 2006
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Product Description
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.
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When is evil too much to face? August 19, 2008
I have very conflicted feelings about this book. The stark settings and the no nonsense dialogue, the trap that money creates for Moss, the meditations of Sheriff Bell on the nature of life in the 21st century and the fact that he no longer has a place in it, are all pure genius. It is easy to enter this dark world where the tension never lets up and feel your pulse start to race as the strain Moss is under increases with each page and where anyone else may be collateral damage; McCarthy creates this world and you can't wait to escape it as each event brings you closer to the inevitable ending. The problem for me is the embodiment of all this evil is just too inhuman. I don't mean in his behavior, people are capable of great evil, rather it is the "Terminator" like approach he takes; despite wounds and circumstances that would cause a human being to lay low or give up, Chigurh continues on. It just cut into the believability a bit and I found myself being distracted by this machine-like killer, occasionally to the detriment of my involvement in the story. But I always found myself being pulled back in and even though I knew where it would all finish, I was there to the bitter end.
An Engaging and Thought-Provoking Book August 16, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
"No Country for Old Men" is a unique book. Utilizing a staccato and direct writing style, Cormac McCarthy covers many weighty topics under the umbrella of a disarmingly direct and powerful storyline.
Topics such as life and death, good and evil and choice versus chance are all touched upon over the course of this novel. Beneath the veneer of this action-driven story lie many questions of significant scale and scope. The combination of "big questions" and parsimonious verse make this an engaging and thought-provoking book.
 Tough Read August 13, 2008
I saw the movie, before I read the book. Saw the book sitting on the library shelf and figured I'd read it to get some understanding and clarification of the movie...NOT! I didn't understand the movie and the book really didn't help. Boy, this was a tough read. Besides the fact that there was limited punctuation, I just couldn't find the meaning of it all. The movie did follow the book very closely, except for the ending, I think, and while I was able to remember movie scenes as I read, a lot of it went WAAAAAAAAAYYY over my head.
 Movie is better, read book first if you can. August 11, 2008
Good book, but I think the movie was actually better. Saw the movie first, and there were some things done better in the book and vice versa. But in the end the movie wins. The Road is still the best McCarthy novel I've read.
Blasphemy - the movie is better than the book! August 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
No Country for Old Men was fascinating storytelling, but not easy to read. It was riveting, stark, violent, and very suspenseful. The author created unusual characters - Bell, Moss, and Chigurh. Bell and Moss both were offered with different levels of character flaws, and both were likable in their own ways. Chigurh was a machine with only slight glimpses of humanity, very well drawn. The drawback of the book is that Cormac McCarthy didn't use quotation marks around the dialog, a literary device that drives me crazy when trying to read. After finishing it, I watched the movie. While I could answer questions that my companion had about the story that wasn't explained well, I liked the screen version better. Perhaps though, reading the book first is the way to better enjoy the movie. This book is recommended, especially to fans of Cormac McCarthy.
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