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	• No Country for Old Men (Vintage International) Cormac McCarthy Vintage, 2007 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 400 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Audio version is magnificent

NCFOM is a stunning meditation on evil in Cormac McCarthy's resonant, unique prose. The audio version, narrated by Tom Stechschulte, is magnificent - chilling and edgy from beginning to end.

Stechschulte's portrayals of Anton Chigurh, Ed Tom Bell, Llewelyn Moss and the minor characters are charged with energy and power, each wonderfully distinct as individuals in voice and emotion. His work portraying the female characters is as good as you might ask from a male performance. In all, Stechschulte's performance is second only perhaps to George Guidall's incomparable reading of Don Quixote (see my other reviews).

Grab this audio book from your local library for your next commute or car trip. It is an emotional engaging experience, not to be forgotten any time soon.

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Sailing to nihilism

The authorial perspective, in the person of a small town sheriff, sustains a running philosophical commentary while impotently observing the perdition of a latter day American Adam, ...to the effect that nothing makes sense anymore; and that, caught in this sensual cacophony of idiot consumerism and avarice, all neglect monuments of unaging intellect, ...Tradition, i.e., Jesus, and enlightenment institutions of civilization, as in The Law.
The encompassing trope is "war", ...over heroin and the profits therefrom; but, emblematic of most any strategic commodity (notably oil) within the capitalist system. All the antagonists are warriors in one or another of America's military escapades during its "century of war". Two do battle on behalf of opposing gangsters with HQ's in Dallas skyscrapers, just like Haliburton et. al.. The third, the American archetype, is a soldier of fortune, a freebooter, a lone wolf, a cowboy. The killing, as in all our wars, is massive and wholesale. And the technology of battle as horrifying as the soullessness of those who wield it.
And the end of it all has the sheriff despairing of the civic world, law and patriotism, in favor of recurring to the elemental micro-world of wife and lover.

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A Great Read

This is a special book on numerous levels. It is a Western that is set in modern times with a great deal of morality infused into it. The plot, itself, is not a complex one, yet it becomes a classic in the hand of the writer. Each chapter begins with musings by the Sheriff about the world, his life and how things have evolved with the passage of time. This gives the reader great insight into the character as well as the motivations for his actions. The characters are all richly developed in this superb work that almost reads like a moralty play. It is a deeply satisfying book by a superb writer. It does not fit into the category of being a page-turner, yet is a very special read that is far superior to the film that was based upon this work.

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"I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just bring the human race to its

knees what you would probably would come up with is narcotics."

Thirty-six year old welder Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon a grisly crime scene, obviously drug-related, in south Texas while out hunting one day. The lone survivor, barely breathing, asks him for water. Without obliging, Moss follows a blood trail to yet another casualty who happens to be in possession of a briefcase filled with millions in cash. He takes the money and runs, hides the dough, and returns to the scene, presumably to take care of the near-dead man. Moss realizes he's in a heap of trouble when he discovers that the last man standing (actually, sitting) has since been murdered. Several players want his money and his life, including the ruthless, vindictive Anton Chigurh and a seemingly reasonable hired hit man, Carson Wells. Sheriff Bell, within whose jurisdiction the drug deal went bad, rounds out the cast of major characters as the primary law enforcement officer on the case. Lots of blood, many lives, and this reader's interest are lost before it ends. Although McCarthy's unusual writing style is always a welcome diversion from the usual, the story continues beyond what is necessary, the angle involving Sheriff Bell is not very interesting and the point, if there was one, never became clear. No Country for Old Men was by far my least favorite of the three novels of his I've read. Much better: The Road by Cormac McCarthy and Homicide by David Simon.

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