The Road by Cormac McCarthy

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

Ol' Cormac is one of the best American writers today, perhaps ever. Spare prose style that really is beautiful, even when writing about the ugliest of human activities. That someone can paint such a broad and vivid picture with so few words is a gift. Way better than Hemingway.

The Road, his latest, is a real lyrical wrist-slitter and not to be missed. You may want to kill yourself after reading it, but it will be worth it.

End of the world, baby, and it isn't at all pretty. No one knows what happened and several years afterwards, fires are still raging. No food left, not much sunlight, armed gangs of cannibals, devastation everywhere. And that's the fun part!

Seriously, though. Beautiful prose about a dark place.

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

I guess that was it: Beautiful prose. A lot of wandering. A lot of hope but in the end you realize it's futile. I think I read somewhere that this book was a triumph of the human spirit. I might have to go find that reviewer and find out where that is in the book.

I was a little surprised by the sparseness. This was my first McCarthy book and I kept waiting for more. But my wants were unrewarded

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

What?! You didn't find Oprah springing out of a bomb-shelter (after having been awakened from suspended animation with John Saxon) and distributing MRE's to the locals to be a triumph of the spirit. Dude, you got some serious issues there, I'm just saying...