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I found this to be a vast improvement on McCarthy's other books which were full of atmospheric potential and portenteous violence that had nowhere to go due to lack of plot. A previous book 'The Road' was a step in the right direction but I thought rather unoriginal, with messy violence and an uncertain kind of sentimentality. 'No Country for Old Men' blew everything out of the water - a story was able to be fitted into the atmosphere, violence was appropriate for the situation, stupid and senseless that it was. We meet the characters half way through their day so to speak - there is no need for introduction, we just join them as the story starts. The really dangerous threats are cheerfully consistent as they go about their business, without that hopeless feeling that one gets from historical tragedies like 'For the Term of His Natural Life' or 'Gould's Book of Fishes'. It was good solid American frontier violence, spot-on for the time in which it was set. And the film was good too.
To say I loved this book would be an understatement. Wow!
I really enjoyed this book. The storytelling was tight, the plot arc polished and it was exciting through to the end. I don't read that much historical fiction but I felt like I was learning about the aqueducts, volcanoes and Rome without lectures and boring lists of facts.