<![CDATA[No Country for Old Men]]>

false <![CDATA[No Country for Old Men]]> 12497 37 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. 2996445 book 2005 No Country for Old Men total:13467|5:4068|4:5979|3:2608|2:599|1:213| 13467 53491 18886 2244 4 8 false false Sat Apr 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 13 11:11:15 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 26 09:54:58 -0700 2008
I wasn't sure what I was going to get out of it. The writing style and use of southern dialect w...more...]]> 5 9 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 26 09:01:24 -0800 2007 Mon Mar 03 22:12:18 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 7 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Dec 04 16:10:27 -0800 2007 Tue Dec 04 16:13:15 -0800 2007 If you think that the western novel genre died with Louis L’Amour. Think again. Cormac McCarthy has been writing them after a fashion for a while with a style all his own and a voice as stark and certain as the plains of Texas he often d...more...]]> 5 8 false false Sun Aug 17 19:11:57 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 17 19:14:14 -0700 2008
I met Cormac McCarthy at the Oscars this year, and we had a very pleasant little chat. This was an important moment to me not only because he is the author of Blood Meridian, No Country For Old Men and The Road, which won the Pulitzer Prize, but also because M...more...]]> 5 5 false true Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 01 16:11:36 -0800 2007 Sun Sep 06 09:28:07 -0700 2009 ...more...]]> 5 6 false false Mon Jul 16 14:45:21 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 25 07:36:23 -0700 2007 No Country For Old Men may be Cormac McCarthy's most accessible and fun book yet, but that doesn't mean there's nothing more to it. Ostensibly the story of a drug deal gone bad, it's also an elegy for simpler (or at least, less horrible) times, a study of the relationship between fathers and their s...more...]]> 3 5 false false Thu Apr 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 27 09:19:09 -0700 2008 Mon May 26 22:09:02 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 4 false false Thu Oct 18 13:33:13 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 12 22:41:09 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 4 false true Sat Jun 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat May 24 19:18:13 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 21 19:14:18 -0700 2008
The book is really amazing.

I see it as a balance between the best and the worst of what human beings are capable. The characters ...more...]]> 5 3 false true Sun Mar 23 12:12:05 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 23 12:13:21 -0700 2008
You have to enter into the laconic vernacular of the border country and see how McCarthy uses it to show how a few words in the right context can get you deeper into the emotions (or lack of them) of the main protagonists than long-...more...]]> 5 4 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Nov 26 08:47:40 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 28 08:40:45 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 2 false false Wed Jul 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 30 20:25:19 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 30 20:49:24 -0700 2008
While this is a fine book, it has a more straightforward narrative style than 'The Road'. Personally, I found this fact a little disappointing.

Essentially, a drug deal goes bad and the money goes missi...more...]]> 2 4 false false Sun Jun 15 02:19:58 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 15 02:35:55 -0700 2008
There was not a single character in this book that I would urinate on if they were on fire – ...more...]]> 4 2 false false Mon Jan 28 23:09:48 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 28 23:33:45 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 2 false false Wed Oct 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Dec 14 16:24:28 -0800 2007 Wed Oct 15 10:35:25 -0700 2008
The first half of this seemed very clear and, while it was stark in terms of prose, it ...more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon Mar 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 11 09:37:08 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 11 09:45:34 -0700 2008 The Road and now this other book by McCarthy, I have to say that this man is a genius. His commentary on how America has quickly become out of control and much more violent over the last few decades provides one element of the foundation of the insight into th...more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Jan 12 08:02:26 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 08:06:05 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Oct 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 30 09:40:40 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 04 18:07:50 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Aug 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 19 10:53:38 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 11 11:21:01 -0700 2008
But I had read The Road by Cormac McCarthy earlier in t...more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Jun 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 16 17:51:15 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 07 11:22:33 -0700 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=439343