Readable and fun dialogue-heavy novel: my second-favorite from Cormac McCarthy.
Reads like a screenplay, which makes sense because it was originally intended as one. No Country for Old Men was adapted to one of the greatest films of all time, but it remains one of the very best books in its genre ever written. A neo-Western or anti-Western thriller, NCFOM's prose is less lush with apocalyptic descriptions than Blood Meridian, but this relative scarcity of metaphor, coupled with the urgency of the book's story and its charmingly Texan dialogue, arguably makes it punchier and more fun to read than most other McCarthy. It is for this reason that I would recommend NCFOM to any first-time reader of McCarthy — it is certainly his most accessible work in terms of subject matter and readability. I'll refrain from plot summary both because the plot is already so iconic and because if you happen to be unfamiliar with it, I would recommend reading No Country for Old Men or at least watching the Coen Brothers adaptation right now.