Title: Add Me to the List of Admirers of This Book
Product review: I haven't particularly cared for McCarthy's books but this is a great exception. Like any good "road" story, this one leads somewhere and the suspense that builds up during the journey about where and how this journey will end is as palpabable as anything else you may read. It's uncanny how McCarthy can take just a man, a boy and a hopelessly bleak setting and fashion a book of compelling, heart-wrenching intensity. Whereas before, where McCarthy's spare writing style turned me off, in this book, it adds infinitely to the greatness of the book. I've always enjoyed apocolyptic novels and this is one of the best, exceeded only, in my mind, by George Stewart's enduring cult-classic "Earth Abides." "The Road" will be -- and should be -- one of the great books of our times.
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