The Road: Pulitzer Prize Winner (Vintage International)

A great book with deep intersting cover.

The package was not great it was just a normal amazon paper bag so the corners of the book got slightly damaged nothing major and other than that good book, great quality paper, print is consistent and the text is very legible.

I first read the novel and then saw the movie. But the novel is a lot lot better. Words express feelings and thoughts better than visuals. The wife's parting from the man and walking into eternity in the middle of the novel, the man's death in the end of the novel after a dogged attempt to find survival and the hope awaiting the boy finally after the apocalypse are very touching. One of the very good reads.

This really worth your time; seriously, I have to decided to read it a long time before, but eventually managed it now. Moreover, AMAZON has really done an incredible job making a provision of e-library for Kindle; it won't be an encumbered task for any reader to search here and there for the content unlike other e-readers.

A lyrical post-apocalyptic tale, McCarthy’s Road is a suffocating journey into desolation and despair. The cause of the apocalypse is irrelevant to the stifling need to survive. With charred bodies, black ash and a leftover humanity turning cannibals, McCarthy grieves a burnt world where everything is reduced to hunger. From abundant defilement to an overabundant desperation, the wretchedness of having born into a miserable world of suffering, overwhelmed by anguish, affliction and agony, takes hold of the heart that stares awake in an awful disbelief, into burnt skylines and cold horizons – into haze and hopelessness. In the midst of it, is seen a father and a son, like lost Ulysseses, seeking the shore of Marina, in the hope of some salvation which doesn’t exist. Instead, they come upon wrecks and graves and the faint whisperings of death. For me, McCarthy’s novel is a pilgrimage – two pilgrims, young and old, in search of a redeemed world. But it is a mirage hovering in the fog that recedes more as you approach – a faint lure fading into a hush. Such is the whisperings of a life gone by in pursuit of unburnt homes. But all that we live on are burnt ruins of a gradually disappearing existence upon which we sit at night to light our fires that keep us from the cold, yet suspends us within the exhausted smog of breathlessness, suffocatingly emitting after the flames of havoc has been extinguished. Cormac McCarthy’s Road is a romance with pessimism that drives into the relentless abrasion of pointless survival – the foolishness of instinct crawling its way towards the inevitable.

Must read. An amazing glimpse presented by the author.

Don't get me wrong I think it's a well written book. I just personally felt kinda underwhelmed not by the story but manily by characters. The books have it's movenment but I just didn't felt any emotional attachment to either of the leads. However I still feel like it's a great read and really portrayal the horror aspect of story pretty well.

Very intuitive