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McCarthy's "No Country For Old Men" is one of the only books I've ever read, as an adult, that actually made me jump in my chair because a scene was so tense:
by jotux 9y ago
McCarthy's "No Country For Old Men" is one of the only books I've ever read, as an adult, that actually made me jump in my chair because a scene was so tense:
>He was half way back up the caldera to his truck when something made him stop. He crouched, holding the cocked pistol across his knee. He could see the truck in the moonlight at the top of the rise. He looked off to one side of it to see it the better. There was someone standing beside it. Then they were gone. There is no description of a fool, he said, that you fail to satisfy. Now you're goin to die.
- dclowd9901 9y agoNot to divert too much, but what is it about this moment that strikes you so? While I love the prose, reading carries no sense of tension in my mind.
- smcnally 9y agojotux would probably need to paste in a few pages from before and after to give the tension context. The pistol mentioned was taken from a dead drug dealer. The someone next to the truck would drive most of the rest of the story.
- jotux 9y agoHe's returning to the truck in the middle of the night to give the guy water and had just found out he'd been shot in the head (meaning someone else had been there). This is where he turns around to see someone standing next to his truck he parked up the hill and is coming to the realization that things are about to get really bad.