No Country for Old Men

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• Gunning for trouble

  No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy 309pp, Picador, £16.99 Cormac McCarthy has chosen one of the most interesting Texas figures as the central character in No Country for Old Men - the county sheriff. The old Texas sheriffs served as law men, p ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

• Psycho dramas

  No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy Picador £16.99, pp309 'There's two kinds of people that dont ask a lot of questions. One is too dumb to and the other dont need to.' In his new novel, very much less florid than some of his earlier work, Corm ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

13 Reviews

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  Lots of blood and murder and mayhem and lots of people sitting around in motel rooms and on porches feeling miserable. Quite good, but very very very masculine. Too much so for my taste.

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  annemarie said on May 3, 2007 | 1 feedback

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  Not for the faint of heart

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  ACaughlan said on Nov 21, 2007 | 1 feedback

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  I don't know, maybe my expectations were too high. I had read and heard so much about this novel, but in the end I was a bit disappointed. Probably I couldn't appreciate the language use as I should have, because I actually found it quite difficult to read, even though I am used to reading in englis ... (continue)

  I don't know, maybe my expectations were too high. I had read and heard so much about this novel, but in the end I was a bit disappointed. Probably I couldn't appreciate the language use as I should have, because I actually found it quite difficult to read, even though I am used to reading in english.
  I don't think I'll read something else by McCarthy soon, anyway.

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  Tabathua said on Mar 17, 2010 | Add your feedback

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  If you've read The Road and Blood Meridian and happen to love the kind of baroque, majestic prose that McCarthy is capable of writing, you may need to know that No Country for Old Men is not that kind of book. It's much sparer. It has much emphasis on the action and dialogue (being previously writte ... (continue)

  If you've read The Road and Blood Meridian and happen to love the kind of baroque, majestic prose that McCarthy is capable of writing, you may need to know that No Country for Old Men is not that kind of book. It's much sparer. It has much emphasis on the action and dialogue (being previously written as a screenplay.) And it's not an easy read: the Texan dialects, the blank space that McCarthy leaves between the words, Bell's monologues, etc. Not a bad book, but it's not for me though.

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  yuuyh said on Feb 1, 2012 | Add your feedback

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  Crude violence, cold descriptions

  I saw the movie and rushed to the library to get the book and read it. In this case I have to say that the movie does much better. The descriptions in the book are long and crude. The movie is sweetened by cute guys (Woody Harleson) and good actors (Javier Barden). However, the book is not bad at al ... (continue)

  I saw the movie and rushed to the library to get the book and read it. In this case I have to say that the movie does much better. The descriptions in the book are long and crude. The movie is sweetened by cute guys (Woody Harleson) and good actors (Javier Barden). However, the book is not bad at all. It is only that the movie transmits the fear that this Chigur guy has to transmit, and I think that the book fails to. Anyways, it is not lost time to give it a try.

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  ariadna73 said on May 16, 2010 | Add your feedback

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  After finishing reading this incredible novel, I came to realize that the successful adaptation of the movie actually resulted from the remarkable novel itself. The author is awesome, though the contents sometimes chilled my blood and darkened my moods.

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  James Chen said on Apr 16, 2010 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 340 Pages
• Edition: New Ed
• ISBN-10: 033044011X
• ISBN-13: 9780330440110
• Publisher: Vintage Books / Random House
• Pub date: Jan 01, 2006
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