01/03/2026
Having seen the movie, it was time to read the source material. It is amazing how close the book is to the movie, with one major change I didn’t mind either way. It does change the feel of the story, but I think other scenes do a good job of already explaining that part of the message. I am being vague in case you’ve not seen either and want to not have any of that ruined.
But, on to the writing, this is classic McCarthy. Chigur is such a well written antagonist and seeing how he behaves through-out as everyone is pursuing Llewelyn keeps the energy up through the whole book. I always find McCarthy’s later work to be real page turners and this delivered.
Given I listened to the audio-book, I didn’t have to deal with all the missing punctuation that bothers people so much in his writing, so use that as you may for how you consume his works. I will say this, after reading this, I do want to read more of his later material to see how it stacks up.
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