I just finished reading No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy, and Wow! I have never read a book like this before where rules really don’t apply… there are good people, there are bad people, but at the end of the day, none of them matters. All the action, the gore, the reasoning behind the entire story ends anti-climacticly, but then again, perfectly, and we’re left with a grave american lesson. It didn’t bring me to tears or anything, on the contrary, I turned the last page and smiled, I was so happy I had had this reading experience.
From all the previews that I have seen on the upcoming movie by the Coen brothers, it looks like they have litterally taken the pages and turned them into images, there is nothing in the previews that is not in the book, I can’t wait to see it. I found so much pleasure in reading this novel, I really hope the film does it justice. But then again, it’s the Coen brothers, what could go wrong…
Sharkboy’s book club. My mother loved that book too and its in the stack for me to bring back on my next trip home. Her current book is Pete Hamill Snow In August…a great writer from Brooklyn that writes about Brooklyn’s(NY) past. His descriptions of the city are very real and his style is very easy to read and enjoy.
I just finished “The Kite Runner”, and thoroughly enjoyed it.
Enjoyed reading No Country for Old Men but liked his new post-apocalyptic book “The Road” even better.
Enjoy your web site although I think Tim Horton’s coffee is wayyyyy better than the bitter swill they serve at the unbearably pretentious Starbucks. (I rarely go to either – I refuse to stand in line for 10 minutes at Timmy’s just to get a cup of coffee).
I’m reading NCOM right now and I’m enjoying it so far.
I frikkin LOVED the Road. How many times can you use the word “gray” in one page and STILL keep you reading!