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21 Apr 2009

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

The RoadI would like to write a post-apocalypse book one day.  I can never think of a good idea that would wipe out most of the population and destroy all buildings, though.  McCarthy smartly skips this burden, by simply not telling us what happened.  He starts his novel a couple of years after whatever sort of disaster happened.  In fact, he doesn’t even give his characters names–they are perpetually referred to as “the man” and “the boy”.  And yet, it is a book based mostly on emotion.

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21 April, 2009 at 14:44 by J.T. Oldfield

Tags: adventure, apocalypse/post-apocalypse, dystopia, futuristic
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