No Country for Old Men

paperback, 340 pages

English language

Published June 12, 2006 by Vintage, 2006.

ISBN:
978-0-330-44011-0
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What a shame that such a truly fantastic antagonist was buried under so much conservative circlejerking.

So our first main character, Moss, happens upon a whole bunch of money that doesn't belong to him, takes it, and thinks he can either outsmart or outrun the people who are looking for it, thereby creating a whole bunch of problems for everyone around him but hey, pobody's nerfect! We soon find out he's being pursued by a man named Chigurh, who honestly comes across more like a force of nature than an individual character, and always had my full attention when he was in a scene. He's not in many scenes though.

Unfortunately, there is also a sheriff who get's the lion's share of the narrative, including rambling, "this country's going to hell" monologues at the front end of each chapter that as far as I can tell take place outside of …