Great story and characters....weird writing.

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	• No Country for Old Men (Vintage International) Cormac McCarthy Vintage, 2007 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 402 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Disturbing But Good

Like the movie, this book is disturbing, but intriguing to the end. It answers some of the questions the movie has brought up. Good book!

Thriller

If there was a book that truly pushed me to finish it it was No Country For Old Men. The story is simple yet intricate filled with twists and turns. Bell is the driving force of the plot and Chigurh keeps the story unique and action packed. It will shock you, anger you, different emotions will fill your soul and change you. Violent, grotesque, passionate these are words that sum up No Country For Old Men. I think there needs to be a prequel with only one main character Chigurh.

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Not impressed

Maybe my expectations were too high going in. I've heard a lot of good things about the author, loved the movie, etc. I read this sucker in like two days so it is a quick read/page turner and a pretty solid story. I usually like stripped down, simple books but I found his writing style very off putting.

I don't understand the lack of quotations and apostrophes. Why? Is this supposed to be more artisitic or simple? I didn't like that at all and his dialogue back and forth with numerous one liners between the characters made for a fast but very confusing read. I lost track of who was talking most of the time and had to go back and try to figure it out. Every character has the same speech pattern and sounds the same. That is not good writing. Each phrase is interchangeable and that is lame and lazy on his part.

I really liked the sheriff as a character and his innner dialogue and some of the themes/nuances are powerful but why does he describes with so much detail when it is not needed?

--He sat on the bed and grabbed one boot with his right hand and pulled. It came off and he shook out the blood then put it down on the carpeted floor and then put his hand on his leg and then grabbed his other boot and pulled. It came off and he placed it on the bed beside him.

Something like that is pretty common in this book. Why not just say, 'he took his boots off' and be done with it? I don't get it. This is our greatest living author? Are you kidding me? I weep for the publishing world if this is true.

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Great story and characters....weird writing.

I saw the movie before even knowing it was inspired by this book. I loved the movie so I ran for the book!

The story told in the book is a great modern western-style tale very different from most fiction books I have read before. The main vilain is such a horrific character (like in the movie). The main idea of McCarthy's plot is simple but he develops it in a very efficient way.

I must admit I found the Sheriff's philosophic thoughts a bit long compared to the story. The main action between the hero and vilain could have been developed a bit more. Finally, the writing style is weird and often annoying (missing quotation marks to identify dialogue, weird sentences and punctuation...).

Occasionnal readers => the book is pretty short and easy to read compared to the average fiction book.

Anyway, 5 stars for the main story and 3 for the writing ;)

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