The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 9:40 pm
I think I have seen a few of you talking about this book lately. This is one of my first reviews, and it shows, but if you all want to talk about this one, I'm up for that! Ive rewritten it a bit to try to remove the suck, but I haven't read it for over a year, so I was reluctant to play around too much with it.
I have a real love/hate relationship with literary award winning works and authors. For the most part I don't see what is so special about many of the works that have won, including SF works that win various genre specific awards such as the Hugo, Nebula, James Tiptree, PKD, etc. The winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction are no exception. Don't get me wrong though; some of them are great, but some are average, in my opinion, and some of them are absolute trash. This year's winner for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, however, is...get this...a genre novel! Cormac McCarthy's The Road is a post apocalyptic novel that.....Please click here or on the book cover above to be taken to the review
I have a real love/hate relationship with literary award winning works and authors. For the most part I don't see what is so special about many of the works that have won, including SF works that win various genre specific awards such as the Hugo, Nebula, James Tiptree, PKD, etc. The winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction are no exception. Don't get me wrong though; some of them are great, but some are average, in my opinion, and some of them are absolute trash. This year's winner for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, however, is...get this...a genre novel! Cormac McCarthy's The Road is a post apocalyptic novel that.....Please click here or on the book cover above to be taken to the review