No Country for Old Men |
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Author:
Cormac McCarthy
By Picador
Average Customer Rating: 
List Price: £7.99
Our Price: £1.75
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 Worst book ever, 2008-11-06
What starts out a promising & exciting story, completely falls apart in the final few chapters. I was so disappointed with this that I threw it in the bin when I finished it (and I have been collecting books all my life). Avoid
 A great read, 2008-07-30
Don't know how anyone can give this less than 5. I enjoyed this almost as much as the film (which I believe the Coens chopped and changed to perfection). Cormac McCarthy is one of my favourite authors and this is a brilliant read. The ending is a matter of taste but I believe it is fresh and original and serves the story perfectly. Just adding my two cents to try and up the average star rating.
Awesome, 2008-10-07
It has been years since I read a Cormac McCarthy and I had forgotten just what a fantastic writer he is, one of the best living American writers for sure and deserved of all the praise heaped on him.
A slimmer book than many of his others, and difficult to read without having the film in mind (which is quite faithful to this), but there are one or two scenes that are crucial to the themes of the novel that you wonder why they never made it into the movie.
The narrative voices are superb. And the economy of the language that you just wish that British writers could master, but you realise this is something that seems to run through good American writers' veins and cannot be acquired.
He is the nearest writer I have seen to a modern-day Faulkner.
A true master and I think it is time I re-read some of his earlier novels.
My book of the year., 2008-11-19
I loved this book. I enjoyed it so much that I didn`t see the movie. This is America`s top modern author, no question. He just gets better.He understands the human condition when set against a bleak or rugged backcloth, he writes so well.
 Very confusing, 2008-10-23
I'm sure this is an exciting novel if you can cope with the style, but I found it very confusing. McCarthy shares a characterstic with Gerald Seymour in that he will write several paragraphs or even pages without saying whom he is writing about (ie he uses personal pronouns rather than names). For me, Seymour gets away with it - just - but in this book it simply serves to complicate a plot which is quite complicated enough. I found this disappointing, because I think that otherwise I might well have enjoyed the novel. As it was, it left me confused, and unsure as to exactly what happened at the end.
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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780330454537
ISBN: 0330454536
Label: Picador
Manufacturer: Picador
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: 2008-01-18
Publisher: Picador
Studio: Picador |
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