Book Review: The Road

I finished reading ‘The Road’ by Cormac McCarthy about a week ago.

It is a rare feeling in a ‘classic’ book to find the two hundredth page almost identical to the first.

Perhaps the author’s intention was to show the bleak repetition of desolation. If so, then he succeeded. 

As expected the book is filled with stunning lines.

‘By day the banished sun circles the Earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.’

It was beautiful, poetic, occasionally moving and yet… for me at least… a touch too uneventful.