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One of my all-time favorite authors. I saw the movie No Country for Old Men when it first came out (2007). During the movie I thought, "this writing has to be from a novel," so I watched the credits to see what book it was based on. I immediately bought the book and read, so back when I was a young man in my 40s (ha). I'd heard of McCarthy but hadn't read any of his stuff -- I thought he wrote Westerns and that wasn't my thing. I loved it. The book even better than the movie (as usual). Then I read All the Pretty Horses, Blood Meridian, and a couple of others I can't recall at the moment. Read The Road when it first came out. But No Country for Old Men is to this day one of my favorite novels of all time. I'm from Texas, and he nails the voice so well. As you said, suspenseful plot that you can't put down combined with the depth of powerful literary art. It's what I aspire to but will never come close to what McCarthy has done. The Passenger is on my to be read list, but haven't gotten there yet.

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