Alan Cheuse has a review of "No Country for Old Men." No Instagram images were found.Writer Cormac McCarthy has a new book out, the first since the completion of his border trilogy. So take a breath, dive in, and let’s get reading! Follow Kristina Reads on Instagram I do my best to seek out some books that help me expand my circle of awareness and to find writing that will make me a better ally to POC, members of the LGBT community, people with disabilities, and beyond. Share my struggles with the most difficult of novels (*cough* 100 Years of Solitude*cough*) and my elation at the best ( Ender’s Game FTW). Here I’ll let you know the good, the bad, and the ugly that I’ve read. If you haven’t seen the movie, read the book, then watch the movie. If you’ve seen the movie, definitely read the book. Despite the unadorned language, the setting truly came alive throughout the story. The characters are so fascinating, all their motivations and reasonings and thought processes are compelling.
I don’t know if it’s because of Cormac McCarthy’s stellar reputation or how much I liked the movie, but this book was exceptional. But I really didn’t need to convince myself to stick it out. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law–in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell–can contain.Īs Moss tries to evade his pursuers–in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives–McCarthy simultaneously strips down the American crime novel and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning’s headlinesĪgain, the way this novel is structured means that I probably wouldn’t normally like it – the language is simple and straightforward, there’s little to no punctuation, and the writing style means everything runs together. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. Synopsis (from Goodreads): One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men.
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