Book Review - The Road by Cormac Mccarthy

The Road by Cormac Mccarthy was a good book. The fact that it won the Pulitzer prize isn’t a huge shocker as it manages to paint a very vivid and desperate post-apocalyptic world without any of the sci-fi side dishes that take a book from the literature shelf to the sci-fi shelf. The nameless main characters, a father and son, travel through the barren landscape always looking for a caches of canned food and heading towards t he south suspecting that things are better there. Cannibals, hunger, and dreams of the past slow their way. I’ve not read anything else by Mccarthy as of yet and have been told that most of his work is beautiful in poetic, but in this book, his word craft personifies the bleakness of the reality he created. While I’ve said the following to many, few have agreed with me, but his writing style reminds me of Ernest Hemingway very much. The vividness while still being frugal with his words and the dialogue t lacking most of the "he saids" and comments on emotion being the two strongest examples of this. Overall a great book, that did take the route less expected in the final couple of pages. Overall, a great read, but then I suppose the Pulitzer Prize people, Oprah and all of the rest of the world have come to that conclusion already.