No Country for Old Men (Vintage International) (original 2005; edition 2007)

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No Country for Old Men
By Cormac McCarthy
Narrated by Tom Stechsculte
Recorded Books
7.50 hours

I saw the movie a couple years ago when it first came out. I loved the movie until the end, at which point I was outraged. I wanted Tommy Lee Jones to win
out or die trying; or a new sheriff to come in town and take it to a win or draw or; at least to know that Anton Chigurgh, if he didn't win or die, to have at least been beaten down. Alas, none of that happened. I didn't know if it was like that in the book or not, but I didn't rush out to find out either. I had read one other Cormac McCarthy novel years ago (The Crossing; narrated by Grover Gardner) and was so emotionally upset over *that* experience, I was wary of trying another McCarthy novel. When No Country for Old Men came on the slate, however, I voted for it because I figured now was as good time as any to find out. The audiobook experience did resolve that question for me (yes, the film followed the book very closely.)

Through the audiobook experience, I came to like the story more though. I was irresistibly drawn to the character of Anton Chigurh and what his character had to say about predestination, free will and, fate. I replayed the section where he was speaking to Carla Jean a few times, absolutely fascinated. It was a relief from McCarthy's gunmetal nihilism. That said, I was disappointed in the audiobook experience. I didn't care for Tom Stechshulte's rendtion. I didn't have trouble sorting out the characters, in fact, I thought his character delineation was very good; but I did think, he was a bit too emotive at times, too much the good ol' boy when playing the sheriff and not enough of the old, tired, disillusioned sheriff. Also, there were a few times when booth noise, a page turn and/or a mouth noise would jump out at me which exasperated me. Overall, I thought it was a porr audio production of a great story and so I ended up grading this a "C."

I did decide that I wanted to get the print edition of No Country for Old Men as well as the complete Border trilogy (I don't think I'm ready for The Road yet, however.) I was at the shopping mall with my daughter yesterday and the local Waldenbooks was having a clearance sale (they are closing the store) with ALL titles 65% off. People were walking out with armloads of books and the shelves were nearly stripped. However, there was a brand new paperback edition of No Country for Old Men sitting there and,since God had clearly out it in my path, I felt it was destiny that I should have it! So for $4 , I got a copy that I can mark up as I will. I'm going to re-read it, paying special attention to the passages with Anton Chigurh in it.

I've clearly worked this all backwards! I went from the movie to the audiobook to the book and; from being outraged with the story arc, to appreciating it, to wanting to parse it out! ( )

this is a great book about...


WAIT!



NO!!!!


THIS BOOK SUCK BALLS!!!!!



i was just looking for a book with no review on my old ones cuz i wanted to post a picture for everyone too see!!! and i was gonna write a bullshit review just to use it as an excuse to post the awesome picture i took yesterday!!!! but i will not bullshit about this one! IT SUCK BALLS!!! AND THE MOVIE ITS EVEN WORSE!!!! so back to the awesome picture!


HERE!!! ENJOY!!!






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Just adding a link;
It's">http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/drug.html

It's a modern day shoot-em-up with bad ass Mexican drug dealers in Texas. What can I say?. What else do you need to know?. I mainly read it after reading McCarthy's "The Road" that everyone (well nearly everyone) seems to be falling over themselves in saying it's the greatest thing in literature since sliced bread - or words to that effect. Meh. While reading "The Road" I kept getting the feeling that it was either a very poor translation or a decent translation of a poorly written story from someone who didn't have a very large vocabulary. "The Road" to me read like a quickly drafted film script. While the gist of the story had real horror and created a tension the words were flat and deadpan describing mere actions. "He picked the cup up and sipped it". "He put the cup down again". That kind of thing. One step after another and the resolution was no resolution in my mind either. I couldn't believe that people were raving about "The Road" and this McCarthy guy. He's no Dostoevsky that's for sure. Doesn't even come close and he needs seriously to consider finding a better editor...typos and spelling mistakes abound galore.

So back to "No Country for Old Men". In a way it was mildly addictive in that I wanted to find out what Moss would do with the money and how he would end up. Dead obviously since it's a shoot-em-up but how that pans out you'll have to read it. Compared to "The Road" it follows a more traditional genre path - the Western, and doesn't really disappoint one too much - it's a fast read and the violence if you like that kind of thing is there in spades. It is nicely interspersed with the old county sheriff Bell, narrating his thoughts and musing on the meaning of life and what the world has come to. Maybe I am turning into an old codger too because I sure liked Bell & his philosophies a whole lot better than Moss and the hitman Chigurh and the way he soullessly operated his AK-47.

There wasn't too much of "The Road" one-step-in-front-of-the-other type of writing in "No Country for Old Men" but it was there and it annoyed me. I don't think you should be aware of the actual writing if it's good writing. It should flow. The thing that totally annoyed me was McCarthy's repetitive bad habit of writing "he drug it across the road". It's "dragged" or "drag". He wrote "drug" for "drag" in "The Road" too. Don't go and tell me he was writing it as the way some folk with Texan accents say it because that doesn't make sense. I am sure there are Texans who know what the word "drug" is and don't confuse it with "drag".

Sheriff Bell reckoned the world started going wrong when folk stopped saying "Sir and Mam". I say it started when people started spelling words like "drag" as "drug".

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/drug.html

So it's 3 stars from me for being a mild entertainment and only by the inclusion and grace of Sheriff Bell's thoughts. Really it should be 2. I mean what's all the whoopla about McCarthy.? I guess he's just writing for the lowest common denominator.













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