While out shooting antelope, Llewellyn Moss stumbles upon a crime scene: three trucks, all shot up, and numerous bodies. Upon further inspection, Moss finds a substantial quantity of heroin and a briefcase containing over two million dollars. Moss takes the money and quickly ends up a wanted man. ...
I hated The Road. But everyone is all "Cormac McCarthy is the greatest American writer!" and maybe I just wasn't giving him a fair chance. So I gave him another. I haven't seen the movie, but I decided to check out No Country for Old Men since it was relatively short.McCarthy could grow on me. This ...
Well, last day of the year and I woke up to finish "No Country for Old Men." I think this was a great book. Was it as good as "The Road?" Maybe. In any case, I’m a confirmed McCarthyite at this point, despite an unsteady start some years ago with "All the Pretty Horses," which left me lukewarm.At th...
The second winner by McCarthy I have read. This is the tale of a drug deal gone awry, a good old boy who takes the money, an assassin, and a local sheriff. The tale is gripping and explosive. The writing style takes some getting used to and sometimes you don't know who is talking but overall it i...
Lately, a lot of the books I've been reading seem overwritten, with an adjective (or two!) hanging off every noun. In that sea of verbiage, it's a relief to find McCarthy's clean, sharp prose with hardly a modifier. His keen ear for dialogue lends plenty of color that might otherwise be missing, and...
I read this book in one evening - rare for me these days - just before I went to see the movie. A quick moving, spare book that read like a movie, so no surprise it was made into one.
This story was quite the bloodbath. Sure, it kept me turning the pages, but the story itself was just sort of "eh". I don't think I'll go seek out the movie on purpose unless I'm in the mood for lots of shooting and dying.The main character of a story is usually the one that changes by story's end (...
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