Just finished reading “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy, I picked it solely on Amazon recommendations based on my previous book purchases.

The bok tells the story of a father and son as they travel across American in a post-apocalypse world. This book is so not my type, it is a bit too descriptive of the scenary, but I supposed it is necessary for this book because it is tells  the story of a world different from what we live in.

There is something weird about the way McCarthy writes, he doesn’t seem to believe in the invention of quotation marks, and misses way too many apostrophes.

The book barely has any events other than a description of the random incidents that happen to the father and son on the road. I felt at many times that I can skip 10 or 20 pages without missing anything of the ‘story’ because there wasn’t really much of it except the ‘experience’ of living in this destroyed world. (but I didn’t skip any pages even though I was tempted to do so a lot through the first half of the book).

Somehow though, the book grew on me eventually and I started to ‘care’ about what will happens at the end to these two people. There are a couple of images which I got from the book that I thought were memorable.

I felt for some reason that this would be the perfect book to read in highschool for an English class, not sure exactly why I think so, it could be the extreme level of detail which might be fun to discuss in a class, or just the utopian and dystopian themes of the book.

The book apparently got loads of awards and positive feedback from all sorts of people, but I thought it was just very average.

2.5/5

I just learnt that they actually made a movie for this book and it is expected to come out late this summer! The movie looks very nice. You can check the HD trailer at YouTube here.