Book 26: The Road

The Road
Cormac McCarthy
2006
241 pp
Fiction
Rating: 3 of 5

Bleak. This is a very bleak book. With a very black cover. Black and bleak. Let's see, how do we sum this one up without giving much away? Not easy, since not much of anything happens except a father and son, picking their way along a road in a post-apocalyptic America, where basically pretty much everyone died from the bombs, and those that are left have run out of food (all the plants are dead as well) and have taken to eating each other.  Well, I just gave it away. That's the whole story. But an oddly compelling story it is. The characters are boiled down essences of human beings. You read the whole thing wondering what you would be like in that circumstance. Would you have given up? Could you endure the pain and agony? What would you do for someone you loved?

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[Nedra]

I love Cormac McCarthy. Check out the Stone Mason, I think it was called.