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harukoharuko 's review for:
No Country for Old Men
by Cormac McCarthy
dark
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Upon finishing and dwelling on the reflective sections scattered in the book and at the end from the sheriff... the book has kind of made sense to me, and I appreciate it a bit more. Which is interesting because I've seen reviews say the book fell off for them at the end.
Apparently this was originally written to be a screenplay?? Makes SO much sense why the dialogue was like that MANNN there was one moment where I read a full four?? pages of dialogue only to realise that I had who the character was speaking to WRONG so I had to go all the way back to reread the entire conversation. But it made so much sense! Once I knew who he was speaking to but goddamn.......
The violence and the scenes with death were so tense and then so emotionally engaging? I can't get into it without spoilers but who's reading this anyway.
I could never tell who was safe which made it more interesting as well, I was left quite shocked a few moments in the story.
Would I reread? Probably not, but I noticed a lot of interesting symbolic,, or parallel scenes so the story was great just the dialogue and how specific he described someone just getting into their car and turning the key and driving to the west freeway i-19 and shifting to second gear! was kind of terrible IM SORRY!!
Keen to see the movie though tbh.
Apparently this was originally written to be a screenplay?? Makes SO much sense why the dialogue was like that MANNN there was one moment where I read a full four?? pages of dialogue only to realise that I had who the character was speaking to WRONG so I had to go all the way back to reread the entire conversation. But it made so much sense! Once I knew who he was speaking to but goddamn.......
The violence and the scenes with death were so tense and then so emotionally engaging? I can't get into it without spoilers but who's reading this anyway.
I could never tell who was safe which made it more interesting as well, I was left quite shocked a few moments in the story.
Would I reread? Probably not, but I noticed a lot of interesting symbolic,, or parallel scenes so the story was great just the dialogue and how specific he described someone just getting into their car and turning the key and driving to the west freeway i-19 and shifting to second gear! was kind of terrible IM SORRY!!
Keen to see the movie though tbh.