Title: Fool me once...
Product review: It's not the subject matter...what little of it there is. It's the outrageous gall of a respected author and his publisher to cash in on reputation. And the starry-eyed critics and devoted fans who accept drek as literature provided the right name is on the cover.Other reviewers have amply quoted or parodied the backbone of this story...dreary banal dialogue between a laconic father and his little boy. We get the doting paternal devotion by page 10. We get the cultural collapse and destruction of civilization by page 20. We get the deadly numbing relentlessness of surviving in post-apocalypse America by page 25. And that's all there is, aside from a couple unneeded and not very subtly planted land mines of human perversion. I doubt I'll ever read another work by McCarthy.
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