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Title: A Misfire From a Great Author
Review: With this book, Cormac McCarthy apparently tried his hand at writing an Elmore Leonard novel. Lean, propulsive writing...quirky characters...large sections of dialog-driven narrative...explosive violence...even a tangled, unsatisfying conclusion. Without the leavening of Leonard's comic black humor, however, the result is a portentous mess. I second the comments of other Amazon reviewers who noted that after a masterful beginning, the story veers into a cul-de-sac somewhere after the half-way point and ends with an extended meditation on the least interesting character in the novel.I am a big Cormac McCarthy fan, and will continue to read his new books as they appear, but the wheels flew off the cart this time. If you haven't read any McCarthy and were thinking about starting with NCFOM, check out the Border Trilogy instead.
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