Cormac McCarthy - The Road
Jan. 17th, 2012 02:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzy_daveChilling, unrelenting, and a damn good read. Readers be warned: The Road should not be picked up at late hours unless one is prepared to spend the night with a head full of dark dreams. Cormac McCarthy writes from the edge of human reason with this apocalyptic exploration, delving into subject matter ranging from the bitter lengths of survival, a brittle father-son relationship, and the constant presence of death on the road.
McCarthy pits sparse, naked writing against the human imagination and allows his readers to fill in the details more often during fearful scenes. Some issues were taken with his tendency to use incomplete sentences and the sometimes stagnant dialogue between the man and the boy. Though, in his defence, it is hard to imagine survivors having much to talk about between each other. A powerful post- apocalypse read nonetheless.
McCarthy pits sparse, naked writing against the human imagination and allows his readers to fill in the details more often during fearful scenes. Some issues were taken with his tendency to use incomplete sentences and the sometimes stagnant dialogue between the man and the boy. Though, in his defence, it is hard to imagine survivors having much to talk about between each other. A powerful post- apocalypse read nonetheless.
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