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4.05 AVERAGE
4.05 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A decent book, even though I felt that it didn't live up to the overall rating on GR.
challenging
dark
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A fine story
Quiet.
Loud.
Stoic.
Melodic.
This is my first foray into Cormac McCarthy and I leave astounded. A story that whispers as much as shouts, yet you aren't always sure which is which. Also, if you read this and don't find yourself squinting like Clint Eastwood you're taking it in all wrong.
Quiet.
Loud.
Stoic.
Melodic.
This is my first foray into Cormac McCarthy and I leave astounded. A story that whispers as much as shouts, yet you aren't always sure which is which. Also, if you read this and don't find yourself squinting like Clint Eastwood you're taking it in all wrong.
"The best way I can put it is that I've sort of caught up with myself. That's not a bad thing. It was overdue."
"It's still a good payday."
"It is. It's just in the wrong currency."
In a land of conviction, conflicting morals and missing punctuation, No Country for Old Men seems more like a country for no man. Heroes aren't what our fables make them out to be, villains are worse than your worst nightmares and justice is a coward hiding on the bottom side of a coin.
I had never seen this movie, so this story was all new to me. Gritty as an old western and ruthless as a horror movie, it's the most mesmerizing book I've read in a long while. And it was a simple story: A normal man stumbles upon some money, another man wants it back.
It just proves you can take a basic trope and make it a captivating piece of work by adding in though-provoking ethics and sublime characters. Every scene with Chigurh felt like spinning plates and I found myself wanting them to fall.
Were there heroes? In the book, it depends on who you ask. Bell, perhaps, though he ultimately failed in that respect. Few others thought very highly of him anyway. Chigurh probably thought he was a hero of some degree, justifying his savage actions as if it were what God had intended. Scary stuff, when a dangerous man thinks he is the embodiment of justice.
This is what every slasher horror movie should be: Palpable tension, a believable villain and the perhaps a reminder that there is evil rooted within us all. This was a country where evil won.
tense
slow-paced
adventurous
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Beautifully written, couldn’t put it down. There’s something the writing does that the movie just can’t get done. One of my all time favorites
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
I watched the film and felt that it ended quite suddenly. I never thought to read the book which extends the ending but not as relevant as the audience may had wanted.
Closure.
When I started to read, I was taken by surprise of McCarthy's writing style in this book. It's very minimalist and exact in prose. The dialogue removed most of the tags of "said", "exclaimed", "whispered", etc.
I wondered if this format was designed for men who didn't like to read. I had previously read Sally Rooney's Conversations with Friends and found the styles similar.
While the story was about drug dealers and assassins, it was about the perspective of our country. There was the notion that we always think America is somehow better than it really is. As if propaganda and short memories washes out our evil bloody history.
Make America Great Again. When was America Great?
It was violent and full of inequalities. But I suppose the catch phrase should really be, Make America My "Normal".
The Culture Wars that were formed have allowed an arrogant man to take over and erode the rights of every citizen by destroying its foundations, the Constitution. People can't buy back the rights that the judicial rulings taken has from us. What he has taken is priceless beyond measure.
Closure.
When I started to read, I was taken by surprise of McCarthy's writing style in this book. It's very minimalist and exact in prose. The dialogue removed most of the tags of "said", "exclaimed", "whispered", etc.
I wondered if this format was designed for men who didn't like to read. I had previously read Sally Rooney's Conversations with Friends and found the styles similar.
While the story was about drug dealers and assassins, it was about the perspective of our country. There was the notion that we always think America is somehow better than it really is. As if propaganda and short memories washes out our evil bloody history.
Make America Great Again. When was America Great?
It was violent and full of inequalities. But I suppose the catch phrase should really be, Make America My "Normal".
The Culture Wars that were formed have allowed an arrogant man to take over and erode the rights of every citizen by destroying its foundations, the Constitution. People can't buy back the rights that the judicial rulings taken has from us. What he has taken is priceless beyond measure.