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I read All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing & Cities of the Plain but did not like them at all in actual fact I found them boring & really an effort to finish reading them. I think his books are very much a 'male' interest & he is definitely very popular with my male book reader friends.
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Absolutely agree with you Mike ... apart from Tommy Lee Jones who I consider a much underrated actor ..... I couldn't see what it was really aboutStephenKingman wrote:Didnt he also write No Country For Old Men? I could never understand the adulation around that movie, yeah it was good but not worthy of all the gushing, back-slapping praise it received at the time. It was almost a sin to admit you didnt like it but i personally found it very middle of the road and far too serious for its own good..
and certainly don't think it deserved all the praise it got
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I wasnt aware of his other works until very recently actually, seems his earlier work has been overshadowed by The Road. I am curious though to try one or two more of his books, he seems to specialise in setting his stories in isolated and barren environments..Fran wrote:Absolutely agree with you Mike ... apart from Tommy Lee Jones who I consider a much underrated actor ..... I couldn't see what it was really aboutStephenKingman wrote:Didnt he also write No Country For Old Men? I could never understand the adulation around that movie, yeah it was good but not worthy of all the gushing, back-slapping praise it received at the time. It was almost a sin to admit you didnt like it but i personally found it very middle of the road and far too serious for its own good..
and certainly don't think it deserved all the praise it got
I think maybe the movie of No Country for Old Men came out at a time when Oscar potentials were a bit thin on the ground so it got more praise than it deserved.
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I will add "Blood Meridian" to my TBR list as it sounds very interesting and something I would like thanks AntD919.AntD919 wrote:I would definitely recommend Blood Meridian. It's easily my favorite of his works but be prepared for extremely graphic violence. It's based on actual events during the mid 1800s, about the scalphunting Glanton gang who collected Indian scalps for bounty in Old Mexico but devolved into a bloodlusty band of marauders who would massacre everything in their path. It's a quick read and well worth it.
Hey StephenKingman even though I loved "The Road" as a film I must admit that I did enjoy "No country for old men" better. I actually saw it before it became really popular. The main character, the hitman, makes the whole movie. He is just so sinister and has his own warped morals. I love the scenes how he flips the coin to decide someones fate. I really think that the actor who portrayed him should have got an oscar. Hang on maybe he did, I will have to look it up.
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But I most enjoyed Suttree, I found the book to be magical and near perfection.
At the risk of sounding blasphemous, I found The Road to be more mediocre by his standards. Child of God was fantastic, and even though I had seen NCFOM prior to reading the book, I loved it. All the Pretty Horses was a joy as well.
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He did win best supporting actor that year. Coincidentally, since you were addressing "StephenKingman", that same actor (Javier Bardem) was just offered the lead role in Stephen King's opus "The Dark Tower". Not my first choice for one of my most beloved characters ever but they could do a lot worse.Gannon wrote:
Hey StephenKingman even though I loved "The Road" as a film I must admit that I did enjoy "No country for old men" better. I actually saw it before it became really popular. The main character, the hitman, makes the whole movie. He is just so sinister and has his own warped morals. I love the scenes how he flips the coin to decide someones fate. I really think that the actor who portrayed him should have got an oscar. Hang on maybe he did, I will have to look it up.
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Thanks for that AntD919, I thought he did. He was soooooo good, I don't think that the movie would have been half as good as it was if he was not in it.AntD919 wrote:He did win best supporting actor that year. Coincidentally, since you were addressing "StephenKingman", that same actor (Javier Bardem) was just offered the lead role in Stephen King's opus "The Dark Tower". Not my first choice for one of my most beloved characters ever but they could do a lot worse.Gannon wrote:
Hey StephenKingman even though I loved "The Road" as a film I must admit that I did enjoy "No country for old men" better. I actually saw it before it became really popular. The main character, the hitman, makes the whole movie. He is just so sinister and has his own warped morals. I love the scenes how he flips the coin to decide someones fate. I really think that the actor who portrayed him should have got an oscar. Hang on maybe he did, I will have to look it up.