Points: No Country for Old Men/Non, Ce Pays N'Est Pas Pour Le Vieil Homme (Series #1829) (Paperback)

from Ruby_Barnes

Chigurh - an intelligent psychopath. Third person narrator alternating with Sheriff Bell's first person reflections in italics. McCarthy's style throws dialogue and prose together without punctuation. This removes the need for speech tags and gives an immediacy to the story. The voices of the thr...

from Polaris-

I'm wary of 'reviewing' a book that already has clocked some hundreds of such entries. The excellent and gripping film adaptation directed by the Coen brothers received a rightly deserved amount of attention as well. So a lot of people know this one already. Nevertheless, this was my first read o...

from NativeRoses

Whenever i try to summarize Cormac McCarthy's work, i get stuck in specifics -- sentence by careful sentence, it works for me. One of the main themes in No Country for Old Men is the idea that things have gone very wrong. Nature is disappearing and there is a brutality that pervades civilization ...

from scofer

The story kicks off with Moss, who accidentally stumbles upon the scene of a drug deal gone bad while out hunting, and discovers bodies everywhere as well as a case containing $2.4 million. Moss takes off with the case, setting off a pursuit by Bell, an old sheriff who is trying to catch the bad ...

from mtnbiker1

I wanted to read this before I saw the movie. Since I like the Coen brothers, I knew I would like the movie, but I wanted to read the book first and see what the original story was like. The story moves right along, not at a blistering pace, but pretty quickly. I was saddened by the way the story...