Customer Reviews
My book of the year. - By: Colin D., 19 Nov 2008 
I loved this book. I enjoyed it so much that I didn`t see the movie. This is America`s top modern author, no question. He just gets better.He understands the human condition when set against a bleak or rugged backcloth, he writes so well.
Worst book ever - By: G. C. Crabtree, 06 Nov 2008 
What starts out a promising & exciting story, completely falls apartin the final few chapters. I was so disappointed with this that I threw itin the bin when I finished it (and I have been collecting books all my life). Avoid
Very confusing - By: F. M. M. Stott, 23 Oct 2008 
I'm sure this is an exciting novel if you can cope with the style, but I found it very confusing. McCarthy shares a characterstic with Gerald Seymourin that he will write several paragraphs or even pages without saying whom he is writing about (ie he uses personal pronouns rather than names). For me, Seymour gets away with it - just - butin this book it simply serves to complicate a plot which is quite complicated enough. I found this disappointing, because I think that otherwise I might well have enjoyed the novel. As it was, it left me confused, & unsure as to exactly what happened at the end.
Awesome - By: Hector Parkinson, 07 Oct 2008 It has been years since I read a Cormac McCarthy & I had forgotten just what a fantastic writer he is, one of the best living American writers for sure & deserved of all the praise heaped on him.
A slimmer book than many of his others, & difficult to read without having the filmin mind (which is quite faithful to this), but there are one or two scenes that are crucial to the themes of the novel that you wonder why they never made it into the movie.
The narrative voices are superb. And the economy of the language that you just wish that British writers could master, but you realise this is something that seems to run through good American writers' veins & cannot be acquired.
He is the nearest writer I have seen to a modern-day Faulkner.
A true master & I think it is time I re-read some of his earlier novels.
A great read - By: Mr. C. Hart, 30 Jul 2008 Don't know how anyone can give this less than 5. I enjoyed this almost as much as the film (which I believe the Coens chopped & changed to perfection). Cormac McCarthy is one of my favourite authors & this is a brilliant read. The ending is a matter of taste but I believe it is fresh & original & serves the story perfectly. Just adding my two cents to try & up the average star rating.
