There are billions of us on this planet. Oddly enough every generation seems to produce only a handful of truly remarkable individuals, geniuses without parallel whose mere existence seems to redefine, bring into focus and distill what it means to be human.
Cormac McCarthy is one such individual. With this Pulitzer Prize winning masterpiece he gifts humanity an outstanding work of art that will forever be an integral part of our collective psyches. Just as Victor Hugo did in Les Miserables, Hemingway in The Old Man and the Sea,, and Dostoyevsky in , Crime and Punishment, Cormac McCarthy manages to encapsulate the best and the worse of the human spirit.
In this gripping, at times horrific, tale of a father’s love for his son all that we are and all that we can be is brought into sharp, brutal focus. On top of it all, unlike most classics, this magnificent achievement manages to be at its core an honest to god can’t put down page turner.
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I couldnt put this book down because I kept thinking it was going to turn into something like a story. It was so highly recomended. It lacked a lot in the way of a plot. Luckily it was easy to resell it after reading it because there are so many good reviews about it. I cant believe they made a movie with it. 2 hrs of walking down a road and not knowing why……