That's sort of the problem with McCarthy, he's a brilliant writer, but disturbing. I've recently been trying to work my way through Blood Meridian but am finding it too disturbing in spots to really devour. However, many people consider this to be his best work. Even Harold Bloom (probably the most whitebread, privileged, misogynistic, old guard literary critic that anybody bothers lending an ear to) considers it to be America's highest literary achievement of the last 50 years. But it sure is brutal.
warfrat73 Reviewed by warfrat73 on . "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy I just read this book and I was touched by it in many ways. "The Road" is an all to real cautionary tale of a Father and his young son struggling for survival in a post appocolyptic world where even the basic necessities of life, food, water, shelter, hope seem impossibly scarce. Admittedly I may have been affected more by the story than some due to my tendency to relate to the main charachter (the father) and his struggle to keep his child safe and healthy. I guess some things never Rating: 5