Mind-numbing conference calls make for great opportunities for posting.
A couple of weeks ago I was having a conversation with one of my service managers about good books. He recommended that I pick up and read "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy. I was somewhat intrigued knowing that the author had written "No Country for Old Men" which recently had won the Academy Award for Best Picture. (No, I haven't seen it yet and am still debating on it).
I picked up a copy the book on Tuesday and finished it Wednesday night. All I can say is WOW! This has to be the best book I have read in a long time. It details the journey of a father and his young son living in a post-apocalyptic world. The sun is osbscured by nuclear ash and it is very cold. The only possessions of the father and son are kept in a shopping cart as they journey on The Road. The father carries a pistol with only two rounds in it. They must scavenge for food and avoid what few survivors they encoutner. The journey's end contains no promises of a better life, but they must go, because they are "carrying the fire".
Yes, this was an Oprah Book Club selection. Yes, I consider it a love story (between father and son). And yes, I loved every page. McCarthy's prose is stark if not beautiful. I loved the style and I am so glad that Barb was asleep whenI finished the book. I did not want her to see my emotions. She never lets me live that stuff down.
Pick it up and read it. Let me know your thoughts.
3 comments:
I do NOT give you a hard time about crying. NEVER!!! I think it is great that you show your emotions sometimes. It takes a strong man to cry in front of people!! So I don't know where you got that!
The shopping cart made me think of the Southworths. And I knew you always loved Oprah.
It takes a big man to cry, and an even bigger man to laugh at that man.
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