I haven't read this book, though I have read and written about other McCarthy books, and I haven't seen this film. I'm responding to the review, and in that context, you missed my point. I said in my first post--the movie and the film shouldn't be considered together. They are different creative ventures, even if one is based upon the other.

There are some reviewers who choose to stick to the subject when they write reviews of books or films. This writer choose to drag in a straw man and hang it out to dry to try to give his review more veracity. It didn't seem to be enough for him to simply say "I didn't like this film with it's non-sequential story line and excessive, even gratuitous, violence."

SRS