A MUST read

Yesterday, I read "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy. This novel is the winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize. It led me to something I've not done in a long time - read 300 pages in one sitting.

McCarthy also wrote the novel "No Country for Old Men."

Here's a description of the book:
"The Road" - Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winner bestseller from acclaimed novelist Cormac McCarthy ("No Country For Old Men"), "The Road" is a post-apocalyptic dramatic thriller about a father and his son walking alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food--and each other.

The novel COULD be classified science fiction or fantasy since it takes place in post-apocalyptic America, but it is truly a story about the relationship between a father and son on the edge of no longer surviving.

It is powerful, visual and vivid. And it packs an emotional punch I've not gotten from a book in a long time.

This is an aboslutely MUST read.

And for the record, the road is being made into a movie, scheduled for a 2009 release and staring Viggo Mortensen.