Cowards Book Corner
Jamie's back with his first book review for the blog.
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
I have been reading a little more lately and will post some new reviews of the noteworthy books. I was watching some trailers on hulu and ran across one for The Road. It had Vigo Mortenson as the main lead character it was a post apocalyptic movie about the survival at the end of the world. I did some research and found it was based on a book and the writer also did No country for old men. On Amazon it was rated very highly and was a must read.
So I checked it out at my library and read it one sitting.
It is only 287 pages so it’s not hard to get through it. I understand why people really liked it but it was not for me. The good points.
It explained nothing it’s all from the point of view of the man and his son you never know there names. This is all you know. It’s been years since something happened there are no animals left, ash is on the ground everywhere, and there are only a few survivors. There are groups of people that are hunting people and keeping them to eat. We know they are north and they cannot survive another winter so they are going south to the coast. You never know what happened to cause anything, were they were actually at or were there going your just with them on there journey. Most of the book is made of conversations between the man and his son. They go town to town scavenging what they can find while avoiding the bad people. It was trying to be realistic were they were in so bad shape they could not have run ins with the evil people to much. So it barely happens. The bad point. The length and ending I was into what was going on and accepted this world it was
painted very well. So it ended abruptly like he ran of ideas or just was tired of writing it. One thing that may mess up my thoughts on this book is I have read a great series called “Ashes” by William H Johnston.
It’s like 24 books that follow one character that lives through the nuclear war then leads people through the evil empire and cannibalism that ensues. Most of the events in The Road I had already read about and it did not bother me. This is one time were the movie will probably be better than the book. Again it is short so I would say get it free from your local library and do not buy it.
I would recommend looking for the ashes series first, but they are really hard to get. I give this 2 out of 5.
I will read some more of Cormack McCarthy’s books to give him a chance
movie trailer