Title: stark
Product review: the stark, sparse writing style of this book suits the subject matter, but is somewhat tedious to read. The seemingly endless travails of the father and son go on and on too long for me. I had to wonder how there were still food, clothes, tools, etc left for the duo to find after years of scavenging by the other survivors. How did the boy learn compassion when all his life was a struggle for survival with other people being the enemy? Also, people are essentially herd animals and probably would have grouped together to survive by cooperation in farming,for example, rather by eating each other. That could only go on for so long before the people ran out. Anyway, the book seemed to me to be haunting in its atmosphere but ultimately not very compelling.
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