Cormac McCarthy's - The Road -

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Originally Posted by RockyBalboa

I leave for Irvine, CA for 3 weeks straight and am taking some reading with me. What is the book about? Maybe I'll go pick it up before I leave.

The end of the world. The world destroyed by fire. No God, no nothing. Everywhere ghost cities and towns and charred trees, and dried up and blackened corpses shriveled to leather. Everything, and I mean everything, dead except for a few miserable wandering humans, madly looking for food. Most of them eating other humans. It's about a man and his little boy "carrying the fire," "the good guys," as the man keeps telling his boy who has never seen green trees or blue sky or blue water or birds or fish. Sounds sappy I know, but for the most part it's not sentimental, and when it is McCarthy burns a fire through you like a blow torch.