I’ve read The Road and No Country and enjoyed them both. The Road is very bleak. He is an absolute master storyteller, no doubt about that. And in those two books he generally keeps the writing pretty terse, which is good. But he does sometimes like to throw in fancy, writerly sentence construction which I find distracting. And there’s a blurb for The Road, something like his “vocabulary of Biblical proportions that he unleashes.” That’s distracting too, but I was able to keep up.
Also, it takes a bit of getting used to not having quotation marks for dialogue. And he only uses apostrophes for contractions when absolutely necessary. Words like cant and wouldnt are written just like that.