Description from Goodreads
A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece.
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other.
The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, “each the other’s world entire,” are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.
My Thoughts on the Book
Fair enough, The Road is slow and a bit repetitive at times, but there's some amazing prose in this book. It's also a very bleak book, which punch you in the stomach, especially the ending. I can get why a lot of people dislike The Road as there little plot in it as well as it being slow, but in a way, that also brings out the hopelessness of the father and son even more. In my eyes, The Road is a book that's made to make you think.
Would I recommnd the book? I'm honestly not sure, but perhaps the movie adaption with Viggo Mortensen is worth checking out.
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