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I read this on the recommendation of Persey who blogs here

Interestingly Persey, an atheist, has taken it upon himself to read and review every book in the entire bible. I feel like he should be getting sponsorship like one of those people who walk around Australia

But back to The Road by Cormac McCarthy. First of all, I love sentence fragments. In my occasional other life as a sometimes copywriter, I get a thrill out of leaving sentences unfinished. I don’t know why. The Road is over brimming with unfinished sentences so I immediately felt at home (as much as you can feel at home in a dark cold place inhabited by marauding cannibals)

But it is very easy to be captivated by a book that actually has a plot, something you don’t see very much these days (I’m not as ancient as that just made me sound)

The other appealing thing about this book is its apocalyptic theme, speaking as one who used to enjoy reading Revelations, who used to have an emergency nuclear holocaust kit as a child (band aids, matches, torch etc wrapped in Glad Wrap), and who has had a recurring dream of surviving just such an event since childhood. So I like to snuggle up with the end of the world, is that so strange?

This book was written with a deft hand. It was both gripping and so convincing that as I read the first half I began to feel incredibly cold, as though I were ‘there’

Verdict: Very Readable

NB: The only thing I didn’t like was the SIX pages (including inside front and back covers) of plaudits. Picador, that is just so tacky!!

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