Tuesday, 14 February 2012

Blog Post 1, The Book, and my reasoning

No Country for old Men by Cormac McCarthy, a compelling adult novel about a regular, everyday man named Llewelyn Moss.  Moss was out in the desert hunting when he came across a large group of dead men, a large load of heroine and more than $2 Million cash.  Moss decides to haul the money out of the desert but this decision puts him and his young wife in instant danger.  Now Moss is on the run from a gun for hire (an ex special forces commando) trying to keep his life in line and having to deal with the tough decision of what in his life is most important. 

The copy of the book I have is 134 pages that actually is equal to the 309 page paper back version of the novel.  This means i will need to read  13.4 (30) pages per week.  This rate will have me done 3.5 weeks early and that extra time will allow for a little lee way, and will allow me to do better blog posts and write ups.

I like the idea of a western style, action book and this book sounds like it is that. I have also watched the movie and highly enjoyed it, now I want to see what the movie was based off of, and see how the author really wanted the story to go.