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Title: No time for hopelessness
Review: For years, Cormac McCarthy has been one of my favorite writers. His novels always seemed to establish a perfect balance of hope and dignity in the face of total despair. Even Blood Meridian offered some shred of humanity in a landscape nearly devoid of moral value.No Country for Old Men offers characters with plenty of dignity, but this time there is a total absence of hope. McCarthy's Sheriff Bell has it figured that the world is going straight to hell and that his generation was the last one worth a damn. This message gets old pretty quick.As a father of two young children in an extremely confusing world, I have to have hope that the future holds a better place for them. If the "sage" ruminations provided by Sheriff Bell are what McCarthy has to offer, I think I'm done with McCarthy.
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