Title: If You Must Try This, Borrow It!
Product review: I made it exactly nineteen pages into The Road before kicking it to the curb. Mr. McCarthy's way with imagery and description are such that I am inspired as an author to better my own craft, but well-written vignettes do not a gripping tale make. I am therefore left wondering how this book made it to the NYT best-seller list and many other books I've read this year haven't come close.Let me conclude this review with a public service announcement: Libraries Are Your Friend. Had I been reduced to finding this book at the store, I would have flipped through it and set it quickly aside or else bought it on impulse and been rather angry after the fact. Instead, I was able to borrow it from the local library and sample it. No harm, no foul.
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