Saw movie yesterday, after reading book 3 months ago

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	• No Country for Old Men (Vintage International) Cormac McCarthy Vintage, 2007 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 403 reviews view larger image
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Loved Movie, Book Adds Insight

I loved the movie so much that I bought the book and was pleasantly surprised with it. The first 100 pages or so are almost exactly the same as the movie, but after that you start getting new narratives from Sheriff Bell and more dialogue from Anton Chigurh. All of the extras were relavent to the story and added plenty of interest.

The best addition was probably the more intricate back and forth between Chigurh and Carson Wells; it took the reader even deeper into Chigurh's reasoning for what he does. Sheriff Bell also reveals more about his time in the war and why he feels like he can't live up to his father's stature.

This is a great book that's written in a unique way--run-on sentences, no quotation marks, streaming thought--but it's not hard to follow. It reads like a breeze; a casual reader can finish this 300-page book in about three weeks.

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Violent consequences from bad decisions.

Rarely have I read a book that held my interest and attention as well as this one. The author connects you so closely with the action and intent of the characters that I felt I was there. Story deals accurately with the drug driven violence we see along the Texas/Mexican border on a scale that is overwhelming our law enforcement resources. Best novel I've read in years!

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What a great movie treatment

A super book adaptation of that movie, with lots of good scenes. Violent action, a fairly moody spirit to it, a character who speaks off-camera, and some simplistic moral dilemmas. A perfect treatment of the Coen brothers movie!

What's that you say? This was actually a novel first?! Hmm...not so much, then...

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SW Texas = The Middle East

I'll get to the point. Mr McCarthy is commenting on where we now find ourselves vis-a-vis the war on Terror. The symbolism is rather blatant in my opinion. The early drug deal gone bad tableau is a symbol for the Middle East in contemporary times. Lots of money, oil, and dead bodies. Chigurh is the uber-terrorist/jihadist. The lone voice of Sheriff Bell
represents a not so veiled lament of how we are a civilization adrift.

My son recommended the movie to me which I was really intrigued with. I then read the novel, the first I've read by Mr. McCarthy. I think anyone
who has been reading the literature that is trying to make some sense of what we face from the jihadists will recognize that struggle all too clearly in this book.

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Saw movie yesterday, after reading book 3 months ago

Love the book, like most of his books can't put down until completed. After the movie I spoke to several people about the film. Especially the end, some were not sure what happened to Mrs. Moss. Also the movie didn't have Churkin giving back the money. I'm glad it won the oscar, but I thought American Gangster which wasn't nominated was the best movie I saw made last year

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