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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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Maybe I was expecting more

This is a good book. However.... I don't know. It starts out really
good & then it goes South around page 250 or so. I guess maybe it had to do w/ the 1st 3/4 of the book is more of a thriller mixed w/ the sheriff's moral messages. Then towards the end it's just the sheriff's message about society today (we are going to hell in a handbasket). Which might be okay, but he doesn't really say anything new or thought provoking & just goes on w/ his homespun philosophy. The ending just didn't do it for me. Maybe I was expecting more.

My main gripe is the big climax is dealt w/ "off page." VERY annoying.

Some people may not like that McCarthy does not use quotation marks to identify dialogue & omits some punctuation. This didn't bother me. However my friend that read it, found this very distracting.

Being a 4th generation Texan it kinda bugged me how the dialogue made people in Tx sound like idiots. I get it, but it got soooooo old. I reckon people reading this think all Texans talk like this, but really we don't...

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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!

Best book I've read since Cold Mountain

I read a lot, and I am not really impressed with a lot of what I read. But I consider this a great book. This really made me think about our society and what is happening to it. The story and its landscape is very stark and while there is a lot of symbolism that can be explored, McCarthy sees clearly that there is something wrong with our current society, and it is not just something that can be addressed with laws. It is something in the underpinnings that makes the story itself imaginable, but more frighteningly, makes this story based in some shreds of reality.

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I Should Have Waited for the Movie

Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer traditional writing. The way the book was written made it a terribly tedious read for me. Other than that I loved the story; but will never again read another book by Mr. McCarthy.

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