No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

I have read Blood Meridian first and have seen the movie multiple times. So I was excited to get into this one.

I have to say the dialogue in this book was amazing. To see how all the characters spoke to each other plainly. Such as Moss’s relationship with his wife. And the sheriff trying to figure out what happened.

This book gives an anxious and paranoid feeling throughout. You see a hunter becoming the hunted. I sort of made the connection that this was Cormac’s take on the most dangerous game.

First off Cormac McCarthy knows how to write villains!!!! Anton Chigurgh was evil!!!!! He was on a mission through and through. To see him just plain out kill and be ready to take someone’s life on a coin toss or their beliefs was quite insane. What resonated me the most is when he makes to Moss’s wife and he said it is what it is. That was so sad she did not deserve that.

Bell was a lot more fleshed out. His WW2 story about running away. Now him solving this crime he wants some sort of closure. By far my favorite character.

Moss was an idiot. I would have been in Jamaica by that point. I don’t know if chigurh would have found me but who cares.

I think McCarthy does a great job with character development. Both of his books had master class villains. It’s such a cruel cruel world he paints.