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Book Review of No Country for Old Men

No Country for Old Men
RobInDenver avatar reviewed on + 2 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 7


F-f-f-f-fantastic!

McCarthy is, hands down, the U.S.'s most important living novelist. Pynchon, Schmynchon. NCFOM is spare and vivid. It's chilling and funny. It's innocent and corrupt.

The story as reviewed by others is just the surface. It's also a story of fathers and sons, regret, futility, and --- in a perverse way --- hopefulness. I loved this book so much, I read it twice back-to-back.