No Country For Old Men

My first blog entry (and pretty late, sorry about this.)

I've been reading through No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy, and it was nothing like I expected. I had the impression this book was about cowboys and such, so you could imagine my suprise when I found out it was actually placed in present day, revolving around a drug scandal no less. So far throughout this book I have noticed that McCarthy has a defined writing style, as most authors do. He tends to create long run-on sentences instead of putting comas or periods which to me gets pretty old very quickly, but in this particular novel I think it works. His writing style flows well, and it's hard to put it down. The conversations in this book seem a lot more "realistic" than others, in the sense that their not always as interesting as in say, Harry Potter or something like that. I think he developed the characters quite nicely, especially the main character. The main character, Llewelyn Moss, has the kind of street smarts that I like to see in a character. He knows how to get out of a tight situation quick, and it's good to see that. For me, it makes it a lot easier to root on the good guy.

One thing I'd like to note on before I get back to reading are the chapters in italics, following every normal chapter. I'm not certain on what the point of this is suppossed to be, maybe it's a flashback of some kind, but hopefully I'll catch the drift later on.