No Country for Old Men: Cormac McCarthy

Has anyone read this book?

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Did you enjoy it? Should I pick up a used copy or buy it new? Get it on Audiobook?

Thanks. I hope someone here has read it.

 

I'd like to read it...the movie was incredible though

 

Excellent book. Just read THE ROAD as well. Very gripping and resonated with me for a long time after. I highly recommend it. McCarthy is one of the best writers alive today.

 

Thumbs up! I did not like Cormac McCarthy's earlier stuff for some reason (maybe I was just too young when I read it) but I'm a fan of both No Country For Old Men and The Road.

Brace yourself for some weird use of punctuation, though. It took me a while to get used to that.

 

Yeah or lack thereof. There are no quotation marks when a speaker is talking and occasionally I had to re-read the conversation just to make sure I knew who the hell was saying what. Especially when there were three people in the dialogue.

I saw the film. Every line from the film was directly taken from the novel, only the novel is better and has more detail.

 

Read any McCarthy.

This book is no exception.

 

"The Road" is incredible. Still haunts me a year after I read it. I hope they don't make a movie because it will ruin it.


"No Country" is a good read. But it reads almost as if the Coen brothers wrote it (not a bad thing by an means). When I read it several years ago, I even thought to myself, this has a lot of Coen brothers' dark humor in it -- like Raising Arizona, or Fargo. Then, the brothers made No Country into a film. A perfect fit.

OK: IF YOU REALLY WANT TO BE DISTURBED/MOVED/HAUNTED/APPALLED/YET ULTIMATELY UNSATISFIED BY A MCCARTHY NOVEL, READ "BLOOD MERIDIAN."

It's a masterpiece of style and darkness and blood. McCarthy goes to the cellar of the American psyche, and almost takes you there with him.

 

I read it about a month ago. I have to agree...it really does read exactly as if the Coen brothers wrote it.
I really liked the book. His language is beautiful. I just got a copy of The Road so I'm going to read that shortly...

 

No Country is a great read.
I just finished Blood Meridian, and it was fantastic
Right now I'm starting Child of God, which sounds almost as disturbing as Blood Meridian.

Oh, another great McCarthy read is Outer Darkness.

I must say the guy does not pass on the violence of the world, but rather embraces it as a necesity for his storys and perspectives

 

Looks like they actually are making The Road into a movie...I read that somewhere...

 

That kinda worries me. But we'll see.

Please let me know what you think of The Road. It's been over a year since I read it and it still haunts me.

(PS: If you're not a father, read it again if/when you become one. It will haunt you at an entirely different level. It's hard for me to explain, but I think the book is REALLY a fable about the father/son relationship. It's almost Biblical ...)

 

Yeah...I read the first 30 or so pages of The Road and it deeply scared me. I had to put it down. That was a few months ago, and I'm still planning to finish it soon...

 

I liked the border trilogy. It is one of the most epic, moving reads I have ever embarked upon. I love Cormac McCarthy's description of the weather and the wilderness and his (lack of) punctuation. The dialogue can be very confusing though. I can't wait to read more of his stuff.

 

I read All the Pretty Little Horses this summer. Do you think I should continue reading them? The ending was sort of stark.