I just purchased The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Anyone read it yet?

[Swede]

And if you are gonna look for a review,don't go to Wikepedia,some jackass posted a spoiler without warning anyone.

[JitterbugPerfume]

1. I loved it

There is a thread about it in the fiction forum

[Swede]

2. I'll go check it out.

Thanks. :hi:

[JitterbugPerfume]

3. n/t

:hi:

[EastTennesseeDem]

4. It was the most heartshattering piece of literature I've ever read

It had a profound impact on me.

[KamaAina]

5. Someone lent it to me over Chris -- er, the holidays, I mean.

Just getting around to it now 'cause I thought "Why did she drop a Cormac McCarthy into my bag o' SF books?"

Now I know. Looking quite promising indeed.

[Swede]

6. Just finished it. Heartbreaking.

It was poetic. I haven't read a book in a single sitting in a long time.

[mike_c]

7. it's excellent....

Like most of McCarthy's work, it isn't "uplifting," at least not in a happy smiley sort of way. It's emotionally devastating. But what a story.

I love Cormac McCarthy's work. You don't read his novels for grins-- you read them for the awesome power of his intellect and the impact of his stories. They haunt me after I read them, sometimes for years. That's the power of literature in the hands of a master storyteller.

I hope you enjoy The Road. It's a moving book.

[Orrex]

8. The part where they meet up with Kerouac is amazing

I loved the book, and in fact I just finished my umpteenth reading last week.

[Aristus]

9. Good comments so far. "Shattering". Certainly. Shattering may actually be too tame a word.

I read it in one sitting, too. Absolutely mind-boggling...