| Re: What Did You Just Finish?
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Originally Posted by Flump  Just finished The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Didn't quite do it in one sitting as recommended. Started last night (sitting in the freezing cold at work) and finished this afternoon (with the wee one asleep on my lap). Couldn't have picked better places to read this.
A tale of a father and young son struggling almost pointlessly through a barren, freezing America after some kind of (never explicitly described but most probably nuclear) global disaster. Escaping cannibals, trying to find good people but trusting no-one. Some really devastatingly powerful moments of intimate beauty and extreme terror (Steven King would get hit by a truck to write terror like this). Some absolutely desperate choices to be made on occasions too especially for a father.
Emotionally exhausted and totally drained now, exactly the way I want to feel after finishing a good book.
They should be reading this in schools alongside Steinbeck's The Pearl. | I've got Dad's copy of the Crossing I've still never read if you want that next
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