Title: Probably not the right author for me
Product review: This is the second work by Cormac McCarthy that I've read, and the resulting disappointment was the same. The first was Blood Meridian, which I was nearly unable to finish. The austerity of the writing and the bleakness of the stories fails to engage me. I suspect that I will never be able to enjoy a book in which none of the main characters has a first name. The Road was more palpable to me, but not by much. The ending was mildly hopeful, but certainly not inspiring. The struggle to survive in a post-nuclear world was described with some interesting details, but I never developed an emotional attachment to either the boy or his father.
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