The Road

I just started reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Within the first 10 pages the mood was set so solid it was hard to put it down. It's the story of a father and son's walk and survival through a burned out American wasteland. He beautifully captures the desolation and loneliness of they're journey while keeping it tense and always slightly on egde. i'll update when the book is finished but so far this looks like a keeper. check it out.

“The genius of McCarthy’s work [is] in its bold, seamless melding of private revelation, cultural insight, and unabashed philosophizing . . . The freshness he brings to this end-of-the-world narrative is quite stunning: It may be the saddest, most haunting book he’s ever written or that you’ll ever read . . . The Road [is] more Time of the Wolf than Mad Max, and more Kuroi Ame than either of those . . . McCarthy’s purest fable yet . . . Hypnotic, gut-punching prose and bracing depictions of emotional longing . . . The tender precariousness of The Road’s human relationships is what finally makes it such a beautiful, difficult, near perfect work.”
–Mark Holcomb, The Village Voice