This is probably one of the best books I've read in a really long time. The story absorbed me so that I felt what its characters felt. It was sad and hopeless, but very moving.
They say this book is supposed to be McCarthy's masterpiece, and I can see why.
The writing is very simple and very clear. It's perfect.
The story isn't epical or even fantastic or wonderful. It's a simple story of a father and son in a hopeless post-apocalyptic wilderness. They are the only real characters in the story and they're traveling south, hoping to find a warmer climate but they're in the middle of a nuclear winter and just about all the food everywhere has been scavenged already and they're barely surviving one day to the next.
I'm kind of eager to see the movie. (It came out in november or october or something.)
I don't recommend the book to everyone, it's kind of disturbing in a lot of places. For example, there's some cannibalism and the kind of stuff you might expect from people who have no food and no hope. But there's also a lot of goodness and wonderfulness and it's really awesome.
i bought this book today because of you :)
ReplyDeletethis book was so well written that while i was reading it, when i got outside, i was surprised to hear birds singing and see leaves on the trees because i was so absorbed in the landscape of the book. the silence and the colourlessness of the story is stark and penetrating.
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