tidbit learned on No Country for Old men, the book

[Daniel Harper]

Well, for myself the only two McCarthys I've read are No Country and
The Road (although Blood Meridian is probably coming sooner rather
than later). I disliked The Road, most likely because I have a great
familiarity with apocalypse fiction in general and found McCarthy's
vision somewhat... limited? Also the fact that the book was so clearly
a parable put me off -- No Country also has parable-like qualities,
but they're buried much deeper in the text.

My booklog entry for The Road here:
http://countermonkey.blogspot.com/2007/04/booklog-road-cormac-mccarthy.html

I thought I had reviewed No Country, but apparently not, as I can't
find the booklog on my old blog. Sorry.

On Nov 21, 2007 6:49 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I have not read the book nor yet seen the movie.
> I have heard that the movie follows the book closely.
>
> tidbit learned while learning other stuff.....
>
> No Country For Old Men came in as a 600-page manuscript. Cormac was asked to
> cut it.
> (and I say it had to be that his editor-publisher, who made him successful
> (with sales campaign for all the Pretty Horses) who felt it did not work. If
> he had, he would have had little trouble publishing it, I think.)
> Unusual but Cormac respects him mightily, I guess. He cut it.
>
> And, inside Knopf/RH, it is judged 'not a good book"...even as published.
> His weakest, they think, I think.
>
> A-and, a consensus opinion  inside a publishing house does not make it a
> correct opinion necessarily
> of course, as mass hypnosis and correct opinion-having often rules....
>
> Just FYI for all you Old Men talkers......................
>
>
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