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Chargement... No country for old men (2005)par Cormac McCarthy
  
» 40 plus Favourite Books (366) Best Noir Fiction (11) Best Crime Fiction (66) Books Read in 2015 (416) Top Five Books of 2020 (773) Unread books (244) 2000s decade (25) Books Read in 2019 (954) Books Read in 2022 (1,433) Books Read in 2020 (2,977) Sense of place (69) Books About Murder (138) Fiction For Men (59) Thrillers (13) Speculative Fiction (31) Protagonists - Men (20) Best Westerns (20) Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. El cazador y veterano de Vietnam, Llewelyn Moss, descubre por casualidad la sangrienta escena de una carnicería entre narcos en algún lugar de la frontera entre Texas y México. Entre los cuerpos y los paquetes de heroína, descubre también algo más de dos millones de dólares. A partir de ese momento, empieza la carrera de Moss por escapar de los que quieren darle caza: Well, ex agente de las Fuerzas Especiales contratado por un poderoso cartel; Anton Chigurh, una implacable máquina de matar, para quien recuperar el dinero de sus jefes es apenas la excusa para descargar una y otra vez su arma y poner en práctica su máxima: no dejar nunca testigos; y un sheriff veterano de la Segunda Guerra Mundial que añora los viejos buenos tiempos y esconde un doloroso secreto que lo mantiene vivo.  Natt90 | Mar 13, 2023 |  CW: Extreme violence (  ) Mrs_Tapsell_Bookzone | Feb 14, 2023 | Took me a while to get through (one I read for class), and I'm a speed reader. The lack of dialogue quotes made it a bit confusing to know who was talking and when at times making me have to backtrack to learn who was speaking, but as for the characters, it's a very basic analysis of Good, Bad, and the everyman in-between. Great book. (  ) writingvampires | Jan 30, 2023 | I appreciate the power of this book. McCarthy outdid himself in terms of writing a crime novel. The characters are compelling and the story haunting. Every minute of it is entirely believable. Despite all this, however, I found it very frustrating reading. The ambiguity created by the lack of quotation marks and specific information made it quite difficult to follow. Even after finishing the book, I still have to go back and figure out exactly what happened. So, while this is a terrific novel, I would not recommend it to anyone unless they had an overabundance of patience and an aptitude for putting things together on their own. ( ) jhellar | Jan 14, 2023 | Cormac McCarthy must have some southern Texas magical stone he carves his words out of. Because this is amazing. (  ) gideonslife | Jan 5, 2023 |
 All that keeps No Country for Old Men from being a deftly executed but meretricious thriller is the presence, increasingly confused and ineffectual as the novel proceeds, of the sheriff of Comanche County, one of the "old men" alluded to in the title.  "No Country for Old Men" is an unholy mess of a novel, which one could speculate will be a bitter disappointment to many of those eager fans. It is an unwieldy klutz that pretends to be beach reading while dressed in the garments of serious literature (not that those are necessarily mutually exclusive concepts). It is a thriller that is barely thrilling and a tepid effort to reclaim some of the focus and possibly the audience of McCarthy's most reader-friendly novel, "All the Pretty Horses." Worst of all, it reads like a story you wished Elmore Leonard had written -- or rather, in this case, rewritten.  Mr. McCarthy turns the elaborate cat-and-mouse game played by Moss and Chigurh and Bell into harrowing, propulsive drama, cutting from one frightening, violent set piece to another with cinematic economy and precision. In fact, ''No Country for Old Men'' would easily translate to the big screen so long as Bell's tedious, long-winded monologues were left on the cutting room floor -- a move that would also have made this a considerably more persuasive novel.  In the literary world the appearance of a new Cormac McCarthy novel is a cause for celebration. It has been seven years since his Cities of the Plain, and McCarthy has made the wait worthwhile. With a title that makes a statement about Texas itself, McCarthy offers up a vision of awful power and waning glory, like a tale told by a hermit emerging from the desert, a biblical Western from a cactus-pricked Ancient Mariner.  Cormac McCarthy's ''No Country for Old Men'' is as bracing a variation on these noir orthodoxies as any fan of the genre could expect, although his admirers may not be sure at first about quite how to take the book, which doesn't bend its genre or transcend it but determinedly straightens it back out. Fait l'objet d'une adaptation dansContient un guide de lecture pour étudiant
Llewelyn Moss is hunting antelope near the Texas/Mexico border when he stumbles upon several dead men, a big stash of heroin, and more than two million dollars in cash. He takes off with the money--and the hunter becomes the hunted. A drug cartel hires a former Special Forces agent to track down the loot, and a ruthless killer joins the chase as well. Also looking for Moss is the aging Sheriff Bell, a World War II veteran who may be Moss' only hope for survival. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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