No Country for Old Men
by Cormac McCarthy
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Author: Cormac McCarthyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-07-11
ISBN: 0375706674
Number of pages: 309
Publisher: Vintage
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Book Review: *Blood Meridian* for Dummies...
Summary: 3 Stars
Okay, not quite, but...almost.
Let me say right at the start, this is a fine book, a compelling read, and well worth your time. Its entertainment with a kick and a moral...a thinking man's thriller that doesnt let up for a page.
So why the medicore rating?
If this were any other author, I'd probably give this book 4 stars, or maybe even 5, but because its Cormac McCarthy, I hold him to a higher--perhaps even impossible--standard. The standard of his own previous work, specifically, his novel *Blood Meridian.* Its unfair, I know it, an author usually has only one novel like *Blood Meridian* in him. But as any number of characters from McCarthy's own books will tell you, including the monstrous killer stalking this one, lifes not fair. No its not, not in the end.
Fact is, McCarthy already said everything he says in *No Country for Old Men* in *Blood Meridian,* only he said it better, more poetically, thunderously, and forever in the former. *Blood Meridian* is a novel for the ages--and *No Country for Old Men* is a novel for maybe two months or so. It reads much like a movie-script, and one can almost see this book turned into a blockbuster thriller--and, as such, its a perfectly legitimate, if watered-down re-statement of McCarthy's major themes. You almost get the feeling he was slumming it in this novel, dumbing it all down for the mass market, making his version of "Silence of the Lambs."
If you havent read *Blood Meridian* yet...read this book. It's the place to start--its the primer, an introduction to the futile struggle between good and evil. Then get yourself a copy of *Blood Meridian,* that's the post-graduate text.
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