This is the first book of his that I have read, I had never heard of Cormac McCarthy before one of my friends suggested that a couple of his books would be good reading for over the holiday period. He was right.
Cormac McCarthy’s style, almost a complete lack of punctuation, takes a bit of getting used to – however once you get used to his style it in some way brings the characters closer to me as the reader, the words jump more off the page and become part of my mind, they exist inside of me – an interesting experience while reading a book.
I am not going to tell the ending of the book, and it is not so much a book that relies on its ending anyway, it takes you slowly through every page, forcing you to read and enjoy the written word – is this not one of the missing points of reading, it is not alway just about the story.
Although No Country for Old Men is weaved together beautifully the whole story hinges on faulty thinking by the main character and this type of faulty thinking is so much part of human nature it is almost unnoticeable. Fear, being a coward, and what is a real man – these are some of the threads passing through the book.
I recommend highly.
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I agree with all your comments, Cormac McCarthy is, in my opinion, the best american writer alive today. I recommend you read the border trilogy, and then all his other writings, I have read most of his books several times and enjoy them each time.
Regards
Mike