Audiobook Cormac Mccarthy No Country for Old Men (Read by Tom Stechschulte)
Description
Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope almost the Rio Grande, instead finds men shot dead, a load of heroin, and more than $2 one thousand thousand in cash. Packing the money out, he knows, will change everything. But but after two more men are murdered does a victim's burning car lead Sheriff Bong to the carnage out in the desert, and he soon realizes how desperately Moss and his young married woman demand protection. I party in the failed transaction hires an ex-Special Forces officer to defend his interests against a mesmerizing freelancer, while on either side are men accepted to spectacular violence and mayhem. The pursuit stretches upwardly and down and across the edge, each participant seemingly determined to respond what ane asks some other: how does a man make up one's mind in what order to abandon his life? A harrowing story of a war that society is waging on itself, and an indelible meditation on the ties of love and claret and duty that inform lives and shape destinies, No Country for Old Men is a novel of extraordinary resonance and power.
About the author
Cormac McCarthy is the author of many acclaimed novels, including The Road and Blood Meridian. Among his honours are the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Saul Bellow Honour for lifetime achievement in American literature.
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Mayhap the best volume I take ever read. Sparse, elementary, to the betoken writing, with big thoughts and messages (moral sentence, redemption, moral disuse, loyalty and more)."He turned and looked at me. And then I thought he looked a lot older. His optics looked erstwhile. He said: People will tell you it was Vietnam brought this country to its knees. Simply I never believed that. It was already in bad shape. Vietnam was but the icin on the cake. Nosotros didn't have nothin to requite to me to take over there. If we'd sent me without rifles, I don't know as they'd been all that much worse off. You tin't go to war like that. You can't go to war without God. I don't know what is going to happen when the next one comes. I surely don't." I recall my dad suggesting something similar simply in different words when I was in higher."I recollect I know where we're headed. We're bein bought with our ain money. And it ain't merely the drugs. There is fortunes bein accumulated out at that place that they don't nobody even know nearly. What practise you call back is going to come of that money? Money that can buy whole countries. It done has.""It starts when yous begin to overlook bad manners. Any fourth dimension you lot quit hearin Sir and Mam the stop is pretty much in sight."
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Oh-la-la. I saved this volume so that I would accept something to look forrard to reading. And it turns out I had a lot to expect forward to.The violence that I knew was in this story had been off-putting to me. At that place are a lot of people getting shot in the caput, information technology seems. But the simplicity in which the events are described allow the coldness of the killers characters to come up through, and also let the states off the hook in terms of existence on the receiving end of graphic descriptions of information technology all. There is not a lot of mercy shown past the main perpetrator, he is a man who sets very high standards for himself in being thorough in his retribution. The story starts in the adventure discovery of a criminal offence scene. A lot of coin, drugs, guns and expressionless people. Moss, the man who chanced upon this scene and is very tempted by the money, makes a decision. This conclusion starts off a string of events that results in the deaths of many and a true cat and mouse type situation involving the man who has the money, the men who want the money and the sheriff who wants the whole mess over and washed with. Equally usual, for me, the story is secondary to the way it is told. I dearest McCarthy'southward writing, I love the style his dialogue flows without the use of speech marks or "he said/she said" type fillers. The story itself, also happens to be quick, gripping is cast with people we can see ourselves talking to. People who are struggling with past decisions, and the repercussions these have on their current situation.
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Took me a while to finish this book. It was OK, and some parts were damned good, simply I retrieve I'm washed with McCarthy at to the lowest degree for a while. I don't have a lot to say near this book. It left me feeling kind of blah.
Edit - a couple of days after...
The books has grown on me. It is still a downer, just I accept to say that information technology is both an easy read and a fascinating one. Lots of scene changes, with no alarm, but still very clear who you a dealing with. Like Blood Summit, I think this book will require a second reading to properly grasp it's heavyosity.
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Reading this book was a lot like watching a Quentin Tarantino motion-picture show. Lots of violent people running after each other and killing each other. This was the second novel by McCarthy I've read. All the Pretty Horses was outstanding as well, though not quite as violent.A drug bargain out in the desert country of Texas went bad. A local homo named Moss came across the carnage while hunting and discovered a handbag total of money and a large corporeality of Mexican heroine as well as the sources of the carnage. He helps himself to the money and some of the weapons. 1 of the men wasn't dead and asked for water. Moss didn't have whatsoever. He took his stuff habitation and and then, thinking twice about it, brought a bottle of water dorsum only to discover that someone else was at the scene. This was the beginning of the chase because one can reckon that someone wants his coin back!McCarthy has a spare mode of writing. He uses no quotation marks and little in the way of punctuation in his dialogue. It can exist confusing at times to go who is talking but the reader can figure it out eventually. Flashbacks are offered past the sheriff who offers wisdom on the type of people who get into such a business and how difficult it is to stop the drug trade and use. I believe that when y'all look for a real American author, you have one here. He actually captures the minds and hearts of the people involved in the story. It may non be pretty merely on the other hand, the reader can besides discover rare beauty in some people'southward souls.
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Excellent. Nighttime. Disturbing. Brilliant. The story is bare-bones, like the punctuation and the prose. Set in 1980, in the deserts and desolate towns of the Texas/United mexican states borderlands, this novel explores the significant of life, and the consequences of our choices, with a incomparably fatalistic tone. Except...except for the dear. So many reviewers miss the beloved and the proposition of hope underlying Sheriff Ed Tom Bell'south introspective musings as he looks back on the violent events that led him to question his life, and ultimately to surrender his role, non from fright, but apparently from a sense of futility. Except... except for this: "...he saw her and stopped and sat the equus caballus and watched. She was riding forth a red clay ridge to the due south sitting with her easily crossed on the pommel, looking toward the last of the sun...That's my heart yonder, he told the horse. Information technology always was." Those are non the words of a human being without hope. From what I saw of the Coen brothers' moving picture (the rental disc was defective and jumped over several chunks of the second half), it seems to me they concentrated on the wrong portions of this novel, every bit many of the reviewers do as well. The violence is all in there, merely I remember the Sheriff's contemplations are the heart of the volume. I refrain from recommending it, because information technology is clearly a dear-it-or-hate-it kind of novel, and at that place are only one or two people I'm certain are likely to dear information technology. As for the remainder of you...the best I can practise is give you the pick of deciding for yourself. Choose wisely.April 2010
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Forty-five-year-erstwhile Sheriff Ed Tom Bell must deal with the growing amorality affecting his small-scale border town as a result of the drug trade. The old "rules" do not utilize, and Bell faces a wave of violence involving at least ten murders. Running parallel with Bong's investigation of these murders is the story of Llewelyn Moss, a resident of Bell's town, who, while hunting in the countryside, has uncovered a bloody massacre and a truck containing a huge shipment of heroin. He has besides discovered and stolen a case containing two 1000000 dollars of drug money, which results in his frantic run from hired hitmen. Hunting Moss is Anton Chigurh, a sociopathic cartel avenger, a Satan who will finish at nothing, the antithesis of the thoughtful and kindly Bell. A rival hitman named Wells is, in turn, stalking Chigurh.
"No State For Erstwhile Men", what can I say about information technology? It was an splendid storyline, very exciting merely also very violent. Ran along smoothly - until....the end. The trouble was it had no ending. I watched the movie - the same - no ending. Literally anybody in the theater saturday and looked at one some other as the credits rolled as if they expected someone to jump out on the screen and finish the movie. I didn't hate it. The story itself should become iv stars, the 2 stars is for the ending (?)
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