joeyy_32 's review for:

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
5.0
adventurous dark reflective sad tense fast-paced

I now understand why the movie is such a masterpiece. All the building blocks to a perfect story were laid out in this wonderful book.

The storytelling is super unique in the way that the theme of mortality is visualized through one storyline while it is voiced and analyzed simultaneously through a parallel storyline. Just a perfectly crafted plot in all regards.

Full of sophisticated and many times haunting subtext. Extremely well written dialogue that feels as if it was pulled directly from a west texas neighborhood.