When I posted this picture on Facebook, several friends commented on one title in particular, today's read. I decided to start with The Road since it was coming highly recommended. I started Sunday afternoon and got a little over 1/3 of the way into it before I had to put it down and walk away for a little bit. I finished it today after school and several hours later, I'm still not sure exactly what I think of it.
The story takes place in the future after a post-apocalyptic event--that is never really defined--but most of humanity is gone, food and water are scarce--if not impossible to get, the world is covered in ash, and a man and his son (who I'm guessing is around 8-10 years old) are struggling to survive, with the ultimate goal to get to the coast. The story is very harsh and stark. One of my complaints is that there are no quotation marks anywhere in the book--and it is often difficult to keep track of who is talking. I've only read two other books (that I can think of) that utilize the no quotes style, and I didn't really care for either of those books, so maybe it is a style issue I'm having here. There were also no chapter markers, other than ellipses (...) in between paragraphs, so that also threw me off a little as well.
Some of the descriptions of were graphic, yet stark in their word pictures. This is definitely an adult book due to these images. This book was made into a movie starring Viggo Mortensen in 2008, but I haven't seen it in order to comment. I would be curious to see how it compared and how some of the events were portrayed. It may have to go into my Netflix cue...
I do think I need to digest this one for a little longer before finally determining whether or not I like it.
Happy Reading!
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