He finds a truckload of heroin and $2.4 million dollars in cash, along with quite a few dead bodies. The book follows Llewelyn Moss, a good old boy who is out hunting near the Rio Grande when he discovers a massive drug deal gone wrong. But let me say it again: this book is so good. That being said, this book is not for the faint of heart. It has gratuitous violence–something I’m really not a fan of–disturbing images, and some language. I tried to pace myself through the book and not gobble it up in one sitting, but I gave up and finished almost all of it on Saturday, turning the pages as fast as I could. I used a gift card, which made me feel slightly better about the whole thing. Well, last Wednesday I saw it on the “psychological thriller” shelf at Barnes and Noble and decided to go for it (I need to check some categories off on the Book Fifty Challenge Sheet!). I’d seen No Country for Old Men before and even read the first few pages, but I’d never purchased it because it always seemed a little too violent and intense for my tastes. Somehow these new books always get catapulted to the top of my “To Be Read” list. I have this little tradition of going to the bookstore on my last day of work to buy summer reading books that I don’t need.
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