# No Country For Old Men (Book) Created On: 08-03-2025 06:42 am --- # ℹ️ Information **Author**:: [[Cormac McCarthy]] **Category**:: [[Fiction (Book)]] **Series**:: **Tags**:: #note/literature📖 **Pages**:: 320 **Hours**:: 7 **Status**:: Read **Progress**:: 100% **Started Date**:: [[2025-08-02]] **Finished Date**:: [[2025-08-06]] **Times Read**:: 1 **Rating**:: 4 --- # 🏔️ What It's About The struggle of change… How time ushers evolution, irrespective of our convictions, beliefs, and sense of reality. We either rise to it, or succumb to it, in effect or ineffectively. A man stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and walks away with $2.3m, but not scott free. He’s hunted by various parties, the cartel, and a ruthless, psychotic hit man, trailed by a paralyzed lawman. # 🧠 Overall Thoughts - ## 👍 What I Liked - While it took several chapters to acclimate to the lack of punctuation in dialogue, I enjoyed the depth of familiarity that it required to develop with the characters. - Especially during heavy back and forth, you were frequently and unconfidently left feeling, “Wait, who said that?” - At first, it was a tad cumbersome - But as time went on, I felt as though I was beginning to understand the characters better - what they represented, how they spoke, and more - and I could identify the speaker with ease. - As a mechanic, I really enjoyed it. I don’t think the book would be quite the same without it… Or with, really. - Really rich symbolism - see notes section - ⭐️ The loud parts were quiet and the quiet parts were loud - Major moments in the story’s development, like Llewelyn dying, were, effectively omitted or covered after the fact, not central, multi-page expositions. - Yet, other parts, especially the Sheriff’s reflections, conversations with his uncle, etc., were prolonged and frequent - they were loud, or central elements of the developing narrative. - This struck me as deeply reflective and symbolic. It communicated the action well, but the subtext was always front and center. - ## 👎 What I Didn't Like - While early segments of the book were saturated with environmental description and scene setting, which really helped establish the atmosphere for the story, e.g., “Texas” and how that slow and simple life plays steeply into the symbolic juxtaposition of the story, it WANED heavily, and it left me wanting more atmosphere. - I would’ve take a longer book. - In this way, I felt it was cut a little short. - # ☘️ How the Book Changed Me %% How my life / behavior / thoughts / ideas have changed as a result of reading the book. %% # 🤝 Who Should Read It? # ✍️ My Top 3 Quotes > --- # Notes - Symbols - Characters - Llewelyn - Sheriff Bell - Anton Chigur - Carla Jean - Horse trough - -