The Road by Cormac McCarthy - My Latest Read

Speaking of book(I did mention one in the previous post). I just finished and must praise "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy. A post-apolyptic novel following a man and his young son as they follow roads through an ash covered, decimated American landscape, avoiding starvation, bone chilling winter, cannibalistic bands and thieves as they try to reach the coast. An excellent book and could have been twice as long.
5 on my 5 scale. It will stay with you.



















.."A world where everything is bombed out and broken beyond repair, soon to be populated by “men who would eat your children in front of your eyes” and looters who look like “shoppers in the commissaries of hell..”, MSNBC

"Violence, in McCarthy's postapocalyptic tour de force, has been visited worldwide in the form of a "long shear of light and then a series of low concussions" that leaves cities and forests burned, birds and fish dead and the earth shrouded in gray clouds of ash. In this landscape, an unnamed man and his young son journey down a road to get to the sea. (The man's wife, who gave birth to the boy after calamity struck, has killed herself.) They carry blankets and scavenged food in a shopping cart, and the man is armed with a revolver loaded with his last two bullets. Beyond the ever-present possibility of starvation lies the threat of roving bands of cannibalistic thugs. The man assures the boy that the two of them are "good guys," but from the way his father treats other stray survivors the boy sees that his father has turned into an amoral survivalist, tenuously attached to the morality of the past by his fierce love for his son."
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