When you listen to McCarthy before you have read it - and then go read it, it becomes obvious that it's not only that McCarthy works in audio format notwithstanding the idiosyncratic and sparsely punctuated style, it's that McCarthy is fantastic in audio format because that very style, almost a campfire storytelling of the highest literally order, is actually better suited for being listened to from a talented reader, than read.
At least with The Border books (the campfire thing, that is).
Example: the passage below is quite mundane and ROS - but heard rather than read is seamless. Reading the page, your mind knows to read it as if it is hearing it, because it's not proper writing but it's fine for speech. In audio format, you go straight to hearing it. Your mind's voice is replaced by a professional narrator with nuance and inflection, and it's very pleasurable.
“He put his toothbrush back in his shaving kit and got a towel out of his bag and went down to the bathroom and showered in one of the steel stalls and shaved and brushed his teeth and came back and put on a fresh shirt.”
And maybe a few minutes later you get:
“He said that men believe the blood of the slain to be of no consequence but that the wolf knows better. He said that the wolf is a being of great order and that it knows what men do not: that there is no order in this world save that which death has put there.”
It's just outstanding to listen to.