NP - Cormac McCarthy's newest novel

[Humberto Torofuerte]

Kakutani is notoriously hard to please...part of the enjoyment I get
out of reading her reviews, kind of like with the New Yorker movie
reviews, is the sarcasm for sarcasm's sake.  And I will also confess
to a measure of schadenfreude.

As for lugubrious monologues...the bits she excerpted in the review
sound a bit like Marge from the moive Fargo, only not as funny. 
Still, this one sounds like a hoot - with lots of Old Testament style
ass kicking.

On 7/18/05, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> what she don't get is that is exactly why folks love mccarthy for
> those heavy meditations
> she pbly would've hated moby dick if it was published today.
> 
> rich
> 
> On 7/18/05, Ghetta Life <ghetta_outta at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/18/books/18kaku.html
> >
> > Cormac McCarthy's latest novel, "No Country for Old Men," gets off to a
> > riveting start as a sort of new wave, hard-boiled Western: imagine Quentin
> > Tarantino doing a self-conscious riff on Sam Peckinpah and filming a fast,
> > violent story about a stone-cold killer, a small-town sheriff and an average
> > Joe who stumbles across a leather case filled with more than $2 million in
> > hot drug money.
> >
> > Intercut with this gripping tale, however, are the sheriff's portentous
> > meditations on life and fate and the decline and fall of Western
> > civilization. These lugubrious passages, reminiscent of the most pretentious
> > sections of earlier McCarthy novels like "The Crossing," gain ascendancy as
> > the book progresses and gradually weigh down the quicksilver suspense of the
> > larger story.
> >
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